{"title":"Henri Michaux","description":"\u003cp\u003eHenri Michaux (1899–1984, Namur, Belgium) was a Belgian-French poet, painter and draughtsman whose practice across six decades developed one of the most singular and unclassifiable bodies of work in twentieth-century art and literature. Resisting alignment with any movement, Michaux moved between poetry, travel writing, visual art and pharmacological experiment, treating each medium as a form of exploration and self-investigation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis early poetry, including \u003cem\u003eEcuador\u003c\/em\u003e (1929) and the \u003cem\u003ePlume\u003c\/em\u003e series, established a voice of radical interiority and dark humour. His visual practice, begun seriously in the 1930s, produced ink drawings, watercolours and gouaches in which marks, signs and invented scripts traced the movements of thought and sensation across the page. Works made under the influence of mescaline in the 1950s and 1960s — documented in \u003cem\u003eMisérable miracle\u003c\/em\u003e (1956) and subsequent publications — extended this investigation into altered states of perception, producing images of extraordinary density and agitation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichaux’s relationship with Jean Paulhan was longstanding and significant: Paulhan published his work through \u003cem\u003eLa Nouvelle Revue française\u003c\/em\u003e and was among the earliest advocates of his visual practice. His inclusion in \u003cem\u003eCentenaire de Jean Paulhan: De la peinture et de l’écrit\u003c\/em\u003e (Le Bateau-Lavoir, Paris, 1984) reflects that connection and his position at the intersection of writing and visual art. His work is held in major collections including the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"centenaire-jean-paulhan-peinture-ecrit-bateau-lavoir-paris-1984","title":"ARTAUD, ALECHINSKY, BRAQUE, ERNST, CHAGALL, BALTHUS, KLEE, DUBUFFET, MICHAUX et al. — Centenaire de Jean Paulhan: De la peinture et de l’écrit. Le Bateau-Lavoir, Paris, 1984–85","description":"\u003cp\u003eLe Bateau-Lavoir, 18 rue de Seine, Paris, 11 December 1984–4 February 1985. Original folded exhibition invitation. Offset-printed card stock, 15 × 10.5 cm folded, 30 × 10.5 cm unfolded. Monochrome reproduction to cover; blank reverse; exhibition details with artist list inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good. Light age toning, minor handling and surface marks, and wear along the central fold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrganised for the centenary of Jean Paulhan’s birth, the exhibition brought together work by artists including Antonin Artaud, Pierre Alechinsky, Georges Braque, Max Ernst, Georges Rouault, Victor Brauner, Marc Chagall, Balthus, Paul Klee, Jean Fautrier, Henri Michaux, Jean Dubuffet, Gaston Chaissac, Germaine Richier, Giorgio de Chirico, André Masson, Friedensreich Hundertwasser and Odilon Redon. The accompanying catalogue was prepared by Mira Jacob and Claire Paulhan and combined reproductions with manuscript material.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs editor of \u003cem\u003eLa Nouvelle Revue française\u003c\/em\u003e and a longstanding reader and supporter of painters, Paulhan occupied a position between literary publishing and visual art. His correspondence, criticism and editorial work connected figures who otherwise belonged to different generations and movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe invitation converts that network into a page. Names are distributed without chronology or hierarchy, moving between writers, painters and artist-writers. The centenary is recorded not through a portrait of Paulhan, but through the company assembled around him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShips flat, securely backed and tracked from the UK.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Le Bateau-Lavoir","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54010298401106,"sku":"PAULHAN-BATEAULAVOIR-INV-1984","price":95.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Artaud_Alechinsky_Braque_Ernst_Chagall_Balthus._Show_invite_of_painting_and_writing_._1984.jpg?v=1784181297"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/henri-michaux.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}