Name: Jean Dubuffet — Banque de L'Hourloupe-Cartes a jouer et a tirer, 1967
SKU: 15792
Price: 6000.00 DKK
Availability: InStock

Jean Dubuffet — Banque de L’Hourloupe-Cartes a jouer et a tirer, 1967

6.000,00 kr.

Jean Dubuffet used the format of a deck of cards, with 52 playing cards, but otherwise did not try to resemble normal playing cards: “For the card game “Algebra of Hourloupe” Dubuffet created 52 large silkscreen figures (much larger than a normal set of playing cards, and otherwise unrelated to the suite of cards as we know them), composed – or extrapolated, as he says it – 52 curious and ambiguous figures. His “algebra,” however, rests entirely on the spontaneous inventiveness, done in his own hand and distinctive style, which created the original lines, shapes, and images for these cards. They thus reveal a dog, a clown, a rocket or two entwined people only to better conceal them immediately in order to drive the imagination in another direction”.

Description

London: Editions Alecto, 1967. Large 8vo. Size 25 cm. x 16 cm (3/4 x 2 1/4 inches) per card, contents loose as issued in original black canvas-covered clamshell box with screenprinted title on cover and spine. Complete set of 52 plus one titlecard, screenprinted in colors

Book object or artist book – livre d’artiste -edition, in form of a box with 52 playing individual playing cards, screenprinted, in combinations of red, white, black and blue

Fine unused copy, only opened for inspection

1st edition – one (No. 211) of only 350 numbered copies