Tableaux d'Assemblages: The Original Maquette for the Catalogue for the Exhibition with an Extensive Dossier Concerning the Same: Notes, Letters, Typescripts &c
Dubuffet, Jean
Paris. Galerie Rive Droit. 1956–1957
An extraordinary ensemble of original material, including an extensive series of letters and other manuscripts from Jean Dubuffet, his maquette for the catalogue, the catalogue itself and other material concerning Dubuffet's 1957 exhibition ’Tableaux d’Assemblages’ at Galerie Rive Droite.
Dubuffet began a series of extraordinary collage works - he termed them ‘Assemblages d’Empreintes’ - making use of traditinal materials, his own fabricated elements as well as the wings of bu
Dubuffet began a series of extraordinary collage works - he termed them ‘Assemblages d’Empreintes’ - making use of traditinal materials, his own fabricated elements as well as the wings of bu
2 vols. Small folio. (274 x 228 mm + 276 x 238 mm). Typed original letters, manuscrit material in pencil and ink, an original maquette and other printed material (see below) tipped-in to bound leaves, mounted or bound in throughout - see below for further details. Vol. 1: full vari-coloured lizardskin by C. and J.-P. Miguet with their signature in blind, excised rectangular section to front board with onlaid section of morocco with title 'JEAN DUBUFFET' in blind, matching turn-ins, steel grey brushed suede doublures and endpapers, top edge argent, grey wool-lined black calf-backed marbled paper-covered board chemise with argent title 'Correspondence Autour d'une Exposition ... &c.' to spine, matching slipcase; vol. 2: full vari-coloured lizardskin by C. a
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