Parade funèbre pour Charles Estienne
A rare homage volume in which Dubuffet honours his friend and champion, the critic Charles Estienne. The book is entirely screenprinted: cover, endpapers and pages pulse as a single black-and-white field. His graphic idiom—organic loops, cellular meshes, bone-like shapes—translates mourning into rhythm. Issued in 1967 by Jeanne Bucher, Dubuffet’s dealer, in a limited edition. Generous margins and tactile stock heighten the physical act of reading-as-looking. Numbered copy from the library of Jacques Dauchez, securing collection history.
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Dubuffet, Jean
Parade funèbre pour Charles Estienne
1967 | Paris | Jeanne Bucher
Rare numbered artist’s book, entièrement screenprinted, in fine condition.
A rare homage volume in which Dubuffet honours his friend and champion, the critic Charles Estienne. The book is entirely screenprinted: cover, endpapers and pages pulse as a single black-and-white field. His graphic idiom—organic loops, cellular meshes, bone-like shapes—translates mourning into rhythm. Issued in 1967 by Jeanne Bucher, Dubuffet’s dealer, in a limited edition. Generous margins and tactile stock heighten the physical act of reading-as-looking. Numbered copy from the library of Jacques Dauchez, securing collection history.
€750
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Format
In-4 (Quarto) approx. 25 × 32 cm
Edition Particulars
One of 400 numbered copies (total 450 incl. 50 h.c.); this is no. 104; provenance: library of Jacques Dauchez.
Print Run
450
Copy Number
104
Paper
vélin fort, en feuilles à la japonaise
Inscription
No inscription
Product DETAIL
The images operate as a procession: motifs sliding, colliding, condensing. Screenprint gives grain and saturation akin to Dubuffet’s materialist sensibility. Text and image merge into a ritual score where blacks articulate pause and mourning. The project treats printmaking as autonomous painting on paper. An homage that is both personal and programmatic.
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