Jean Dubuffet und Jean Paulhan
La métromanie ou les dessous de la capitale. Calligraphié et orné pas son ami Jean Dubuffet. Paris, E. und J. Desjobert 1949.

Erste Ausgabe des wichtigen Malerbuches.

1 von 125 numerierten Exemplaren auf "papier de chiffon gris souris". - "Jean Dubuffet was the most important and outspoken French artist of the postwar era. A man of uncompromising ideas, his art is linked to the concept he himself originated, art brut, which denotes a spontaneous, unconscious, and anti-artistic quality. His art ranges from expressionistic figuration to abstraction of a severe and very conceptual form. Versatile in painting, drawing and sculpture, Dubuffet was an accomplished printmaker who produced a considerable number of artist's books." (Logan Coll. 147)

EINBAND: Späterer Leinenband mit goldgeprägtem Titel auf dem Vorderdeckel, 20,8 : 21,5 cm, in Schuber. - ILLUSTRATION: Mit lithographiertem Text und 59 (16 blattgroßen) Orig.-Lithographien von J. Dubuffet. - ZUSTAND: Vorderes Gelenk innen beschädigt.

LITERATUR: Webel 175-264. - Monod 8912. - Strachan S. 330. - Bibl. Matarasso II, 36.

Dabei: Paintings by Jean Dubuffet. Illustr. Einladung der Galerie Pierre Matisse, New York 1950. 2 Bll. 19,8 : 20 cm. - Mit eigenh. Widmung von Dubuffet an den Verleger Edmond Desjobert. - 1 weitere Beigabe (Guillevic, Élégies. 1946).

First edition of this important artist's book. 1 von 125 numbered copies on papier chiffon gris souris. With lithogr. text and 59 (16 fullpage) orig. lithographs by J. Dubuffet. Later cloth, in slipicase. - Front hinge damaged. - 2 additons.