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[Artist's Book w. Signed Prints] Mouvement de Folie

Dorny, Bertrand (1931-2015) ; Text by Claude Polin

Paris: Chez l'artiste (B. Dorny), 1963. Bertrand Dorny. Signed, Limited Edition. Hardcover. (English Title "Movement of Madness") An early and difficult find in the Dorny oeuvre, virtually unobtainable complete in it's original form and rare thus. This exquisite example of Dorny's work is copy No. 33 of 42 and includes all seven of the prints signed and numbered by the artist. Slipcase with brown cloth and decorative paper over boards [paper toned] ; internal print folder with matching cloth backed paper over boards, title stamped in gilt onto leather label on spine [spine sunned with tiny chip from cloth and label] ; card covers with glassine dust jacket [toned] ; descriptive folio text (11 inches [28 cm] tall), unbound, pp. [14], [10 - blank] ; seven loose prints in B&W and color w. tissue guards, all on Rives B.F.K. paper. All prints with a touch of toning, else fine. Complete as issued including the original wrappers w. glassine dust jacket and slipcase. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #3430

The few copies produced within this limitation have quite likely either been broken up long ago for individual framing or are still being held in deep, private collections. OCLC locates just two copies institutionally held, one in the US at the Thomas P. O'Neill Library of Boston College and one in France at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.

Price: $1,350.00 CAD  other currencies