En appel de visages
En appel de visages is a refined production where Henri Michaux and Yves Peyré meet in a dialogue between voice and gaze. The book probes the face as a site of revelation and evasion, a theme Michaux pursued both in language and gesture. Generous typographic spacing lets the text breathe, each line set like a trace upon the sheet. Verdier’s execution is bibliophilic and restrained—issued in loose quarto leaves on noble paper for an intimate reading. The Lana Royal copies are the most desirable of the run. This copy is additionally signed by both the author and Michaux, making the encounter between poet and artist palpable. The whole radiates the poised elegance of 1980s French fine printing.
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Peyré, Yves
Michaux, Henri
En appel de visages
1983 | Lagrasse
A crisp, scarce copy that condenses the meeting of poet and artist into a concentrated object. Ideal for collectors of Michaux’s quiet radicalism. A highlight of sober French bibliophily.
En appel de visages is a refined production where Henri Michaux and Yves Peyré meet in a dialogue between voice and gaze. The book probes the face as a site of revelation and evasion, a theme Michaux pursued both in language and gesture. Generous typographic spacing lets the text breathe, each line set like a trace upon the sheet. Verdier’s execution is bibliophilic and restrained—issued in loose quarto leaves on noble paper for an intimate reading. The Lana Royal copies are the most desirable of the run. This copy is additionally signed by both the author and Michaux, making the encounter between poet and artist palpable. The whole radiates the poised elegance of 1980s French fine printing.
€550
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One of 75 numbered copies on Lana Royal wove, signed by the author and Henri Michaux.
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75
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No. 15
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The volume turns around the motif of the face—calling, recognition, loss—and asks how language can edge the ungraspable. Michaux writes in a probing, broken register; Peyré’s voice answers and reframes. The open page architecture amplifies the cadence and makes the sheet a field of resonance. Themes of identity, appearance, and elusiveness recur in variations without fixing a plot. Readers are invited to pause, return, and wander among the lines.
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