Mirobolus Macadam & C[ompagn]ie. by (DUBUFFET, Jean). Michel TAPIÉ.

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  • Another image of Mirobolus Macadam & C[ompagn]ie. by (DUBUFFET, Jean). Michel TAPIÉ.
  • Another image of Mirobolus Macadam & C[ompagn]ie. by (DUBUFFET, Jean). Michel TAPIÉ.
  • Another image of Mirobolus Macadam & C[ompagn]ie. by (DUBUFFET, Jean). Michel TAPIÉ.

~ Mirobolus Macadam & C[ompagn]ie. Paris: [imprimerie Union for] R. Drouin, [April] 1946.

4to (242 × 190 mm), pp. 56, [6], with monochrome plates on papers of various tints. Original rainbow serigraph wrappers. Half-title inscribed by Michel Tapié. Exceptionally fine and bright.

First edition of the catalogue to Dubuffet’s second exhibition ‘Macrobolus et Cie’ in which he exhibited a large number of hauts pâtes paintings composed of earth, gravel, tar and sand. It proved to be a significant moment in the postwar art brut revolt against high art and learned culture and provoked a significantly negative response, both among critics and physically in the gallery. Two paintings were slashed and six others damaged. The pictures elicited a more favourable response in New York the following year.

The catalogue was limited to 700 copies (this one is unnumbered) plus 30 copies with an original lithograph. This copy, inscribed by the author Michle Tapié is uncommonly well preserved (the rainbow wrappers are usually frayed).

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