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Le Diable par la queue. Mémorial de la petite exposition de dessins et de peintures de Jean Dubuffet joyeusement organisée à Bruxelles en decembre 1949 par l'auteur et son ami Geert van Bruaene pour l'inauguration de sa nouvelle boutique

Dubuffet, Jean

Paris / Brussels. Chez Desjobert. 1949
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Edition of approximately 600 copies on brown paper; exhibition catalogue produced 'en hâte, pour qu'elle soit prête à la date de l'exposition' for Dubuffet's first European exhibition outside Paris.

Together with the poster (which served also as the invitation) for the vernissage and exhibition, lithograph text and illustration recto only on cream paper (318 x 214 mm); 'tirage à un nombre restreint d'exemplaires sur papier banal'.

'Catalogue de l'exposition de Jean Dubuffet à la galerie de Geert van Bruaene, Bruxelles, du 17 au 28 décembre 1949. Texte calligraphié par l'artiste avec 3 illustrations ... imprimé par procédé lithographique chez Desjobert, novembre 1949'. (Webel, pg. 82).

[Webel 291 (poster) and 292 - 299; pg. 82 - 83].
[4 unnumbered leaves]. Square 8vo. (200 x 200 mm). Lithograph text and illustration recto and verso throughout: front cover with title and illustration, list of works and 2 full-page plates (taken from 'La Métromanie'), justification and acheve d'imprimer to rear cover. Stitched as issued in original wrappers.
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