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Mirobolus, Macadam et Cie, Hautes Pâtes de Jean Dubuffet. Par Michel Tapié

Dubuffet, Jean

Paris. René Drouin. 1946
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Edition of 730 numbered copies including 700 on papiers de couleurs and 30 on fort vélin d'Arches à la forme numbered in Roman numerals; copy XI on fort vélin d'Arches à la forme, with the original colour lithograph (Suite de visages bronzés) and signed in blue ink by Tapié, Dubuffet and Drouin.

A separate 'tirage à part' of 65 copies of the lithograph was also printed (5 on Japon and 60 on Arches including 5 hors commerce), but was destroyed by Dubuffet. The lithograph, apart from two proofs, exists only in the édition de tête examples of Mirobolus, Macadam et Cie. The book was printed at l'Imprimerie Union, Paris.

[Webel 98; see pg. 48].
[33 leaves, including colour lithograph on inserted sheet; pp. 56, (vi)]. Folio. (328 x 255 mm). Half-title, tipped-in monochrome frontispiece verso, printed title, inserted leaf with colour lithograph ('Suite de visages bronzés'), Tapié's text and 31 tipped-in monochrome reproduction plates of paintings, justification, final leaf with achevé d'imprimer. Original publisher's cream printed wrappers with title to upper cover.
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