DOUCET Jacques - Lot 127

DOUCET Jacques MIXED INKS. Letter-poem by Michel Ragon in introduction. [Paris], Collection Peinture et parole, Editions St Germain des Prés, 1975. Large in-4, leaves, illustrated cover, publisher's cloth slipcase. First edition with numerous texts and illustrations by Jacques Doucet. One of the first 10 numbered copies on BFK de Rives containing a signed full-page pastel and three numbered original etchings signed by Jacques Doucet. Enclosed is the original mock-up of Encres mêlées, including the original autograph manuscript of Doucet's texts and the cut-out and laminated illustrations, all laid out and folioed for the edition by Jacques Doucet. Bookplate of the painter and sculptor Arman. Sale by Me Renaud, Bibliothèque d'Arman, December 14, 1994, no. 190. Enclosed is a copy of the current edition of encres mêlées and the catalog for the Jacques Doucet exhibition at Galerie Dina Vierny in 1973, text by René Passeron.