Cartes à jouer et à tirer
€2,750.00
In 1967, Jean Dubuffet partnered with London’s Editions Alecto on *Cartes à jouer et à tirer*, playfully recasting his visual vocabulary into the scale of a deck of cards. The set comprises 52 separate cards, each silkscreen-printed, forming a quirky alphabet of lines, planes, and scribbled textures. The title invites action—both “to play” and “to draw”—letting chance and handling shape meaning. Housed in the publisher’s slipcase, the work sits between artist’s book and portable multiple. This hors commerce copy, marked H.C. 11, is in notably fresh condition. It exemplifies Dubuffet’s anti-aesthetic joined to technical exactitude, an irresistible proposition for bibliophiles at the book-object threshold.
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Cartes à jouer et à tirer
1967 | London | Éditions Alecto
Rare hors-commerce copy, near fine, complete with slipcase.
In 1967, Jean Dubuffet partnered with London’s Editions Alecto on *Cartes à jouer et à tirer*, playfully recasting his visual vocabulary into the scale of a deck of cards. The set comprises 52 separate cards, each silkscreen-printed, forming a quirky alphabet of lines, planes, and scribbled textures. The title invites action—both “to play” and “to draw”—letting chance and handling shape meaning. Housed in the publisher’s slipcase, the work sits between artist’s book and portable multiple. This hors commerce copy, marked H.C. 11, is in notably fresh condition. It exemplifies Dubuffet’s anti-aesthetic joined to technical exactitude, an irresistible proposition for bibliophiles at the book-object threshold.
€2,750
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Hors commerce, marked H.C. 11.
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Here Dubuffet channels his gritty line and granulated matter into the compact field of the playing card. Silkscreen amplifies the surface buzz familiar from his paintings. The cards are not mere reproductions but autonomous carriers, to be arranged sequentially or by chance. The reader-player’s hand becomes part of the reading, reinforcing Dubuffet’s notion of art in the everyday.
Dubuffet, Jean
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