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Fragments du Sélénite

FIRST EDITION.
ONE OF THE 11 FIRST EDITIONS signed by the author and the artist including a manuscript, an original signed gouache, a continuation of the text and 12 lithographs signed on Japon nacré.

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FIRST EDITION of this elegant work by the Pichette brothers, in which Henri's text is printed on 12 original lithographs by James.
Total edition of 110 copies on Arches vellum.

ONE OF THE FIRST 11 NUMBERED COPIES ON LARGE ARCHES VELIN signed by the author and the artist, the only print run to include :
- an autograph fragment of Henri Pichette's manuscript
- an original signed gouache by James Pichette
- a continuation of the text on Auvergne Richard de Bas paper
- a suite of 12 lithographs signed on Japon nacré

"If they have to accuse me of being in the moon the strange innocents who pride themselves on having their feet firmly on the ground, well, I'll confess straight away: I'm a Selenite."

RARE.

Paris,La Rubéline,1973.In-8 square, Sheets,280 x 280 mm,Unpaginated.

Accordion mounted leaves, publisher's full chocolate cloth box, title in palladium, some rubbing to the spines. Good condition.

Bio

Henri Pichette

(Châteauroux: the  Paris: the 

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James Pichette

Brother of the poet Henri Pichette, James Pichette (1920-1996) exhibited for the first time at the salon des Super-independent in 1947, then Salon des réalités nouvelles in 1950. Close to Huguette Arthur Bertrand, he defended lyrical abstraction at the Salon of October 1952-53.

 "A curious feast of the spirit is organized in each of James Pichette's works - but without seeming to touch it, he also suggests some of the thousand and one secrets of painting, courteously hidden under the towers and detours of a modern calligrapher monk. »

(Charles Estienne, 1951)

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