LA BOTTE À NIQUE

First edition. Limited edition. Signed by the author. Publisher's original printed card covers with titles and illustration by Jean Dubuffet in white and black to the front cover. Unpaginated. 112pp loosely laid in to card covers. 17 x 22 cm. Printed on Velin Arches paper on the presses of Rotro-Sadag, Geneva. Illustrated profusely throughout by Jean Dubuffet in black, white and colour with numerous full page and double page illustrations. Loosely housed in the quarter vellum and paper covered chemise. In the original card sliding slipcase, with titles and illustration in black to the sides and upper panel. 'Quatre Figures' silkscreen housed in separate paper covered chemise. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean and bright throughout. Housed in the better than very good sliding card slipcase, with light bumping to the extremities and a couple of light stains and marks to the outside. Internally, the slipcase has a tear to the inside wall which has been repaired. The serigraph is in fine and clean condition, with a small 2cm split to the outer chemise flap.

One of the last experimental 'jargon' texts written by the founder of the Art Brut movement. The artist book 'La Botte à Nique' is an extension of Dubuffet's longest series of work, the 'L'Hourloupe Cycle', which spanned across painting, print, sculpture and performance between 1962- 1974. Featuring abstract, undulating forms in red, white and blue, Dubuffet would embed figures, letters and objects within his 'automatic' drawings, creating dreamlike landscapes, biomorphic forms and ambiguous figures. An important example of Jean Dubuffet's most recognisable imagery and Art Brut ideals.