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two books that are sitting on a tablean open book with the words now written on itpainting of a flock of seagulls flying over a body of watera painting of a group of people in a group of treesan open book with writing on it on a tablean open book with a handwritten poem on it sitting on a tabletwo books on the table and one has a picture of a person on it
Daguerre Val de Loire

183 - Jean-Jacques MORVAN (1928–2005), a painter associated with t…
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Estimate €300 - €350
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Jean-Jacques MORVAN (1928–2005), a painter associated with the Second School of Paris, poet and actor, and a friend of René Char, who introduced him to Albert Camus, with whom he collaborated on the journal *Témoins*. A collection of 4 volumes: 1 - MORVAN. Novy. No place, no publisher, 1961. In-4, loose sheets in a folder and the publisher’s imitation-wood slipcase (slight staining opposite a few illustrations). A volume composed and illustrated by the artist with 9 original lithographs in black and colour. Print run limited to 36 copies: one of the 10 first-edition copies (no. 5) containing an original signed gouache (without the announced continuation). 2 - MORVAN. Le temps hémophile. [Lyon], Deswarte, 1971. Narrow 8vo, 62 pp., [2] folios, loose sheets in the publisher’s cover. First edition of this ‘diary of a Canadian winter’ (November 1968 – July 1969). Limited edition of 333 copies: one of the 13 copies inscribed on Arches vellum, and amongst these, one of the two (No. III) containing two original gouaches and two pages of the manuscript. Although it lacks the sculpted slipcase reserved for these copies, this one is enhanced by a third original gouache. Autograph letter signed by the author to the recipient of the copy, Bernard Lepinay. 3 - MORVAN. Letter to Vonick. Remoulons-sur-Gardon, Brémond, 1994. Oblong 18° (6 x 14 cm), paperback. A signed autograph copy sent by the author to Jean-Louis Debauve. 4. MORVAN. CADOU (Hélène). L’innominée. Villeneuve-lez-Avignon, Jacques Brémond, 1980. In-12, loose-leaf in the publisher’s cover. First edition of this collection of ‘forty-nine poems from the Sept d’Amour’, composed by Hélène Cadou for her husband, the poet René-Guy Cadou, and accompanied by seven original ink drawings by Jean-Jacques Morvan. Limited edition of 551 copies. Comprising 4 volumes
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About the sale Books from the 15th to the 21st century, most of which are illustrated. Manuscripts. Painters’ autographs. Maps and plans. Architectural drawings. Normandy.
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Auction time 10/22/2026 at 2:00 PM
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