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162 - Henri MICHAUX. Mouvements. Sixty-four drawings.
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Estimate €4,000 - €6,000
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Henri MICHAUX. Mouvements. Sixty-four drawings. A poem. An afterword. Paris, Gallimard, Le Point du Jour, 1951. In-4, publisher’s soft board binding, illustrated dust jacket with a filled-in design, publisher’s slipcase. First edition, illustrated with 64 full-page reproductions of the author’s drawings. One of the first 25 copies printed on Arches vellum, accompanied by an original drawing signed by the author. Copy A, specially printed for Henri Michaux. Autograph dedication signed beneath the title page: In homage to Mr Rodel H. Michaux Accompanying certificate from the Alphonse Chave gallery providing details of this copy’s provenance. “Alain Rodel was a friend of the publisher René Bertelé and a great friend and collector of Michaux’s work. Towards the end of his life, he met Armande de Trentinan, daughter of Francis Ponge and secretary to Jean Dubuffet. Rodel then shifted the focus of his collection towards Dubuffet and sold a large part of his collection of Henri Michaux works to Jean Hugues, director of the Le Point Cardinal bookshop and gallery. I myself acquired this volume from Jean Hugues a few years ago. Pierre Chave.” (Chave exhibition catalogue, 2002, reproduced on page 4.) This copy was exhibited at the Martin Bodmer Foundation in Cologny in 2015 (cat. Henri Michaux &; Zao Wou-Ki in the Empire of Signs, p. 199). Uncut copy. Some ink transfer from the plates; the spine of the slipcase is worn.
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About the sale Henri Michaux, the Sven Pitsey collection
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Auction time 10/29/2026 at 2:00 PM
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