HENRI MICHAUX (1899-1984)

Mescaline drawing, 1956 India ink and sepia ink on paper from the F. Barjon paper mill in Moirans, Isère, signed with the initials lower right. 32 x 24 cm. Provenance. Collection B.C., Paris. Exhibitions. . Henri Michaux, Stedelijk Museum,Amsterdam, February 7 - March 22, 1964. . Henri Michaux, Musée National d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, February 12 - April 4, 1965, reproduced on page 24 of the catalog. . Henri Michaux retrospective, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, September 18 - October 24, 1971, exhibition no. 101. . Retrospective, Kestner-Geselschaft, Hanover, November 17, 1972 - January 7, 1973. . Retrospective, traveling exhibition Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, March 15 - June 14, 1978, reproduced on catalog page 96 and Guggenheim Museum, New York, September 6 - October 15, 1978, exhibition no. 69. and Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, November 2 - December 10, 1978. . Paris - Paris, Créations en France 1937 - 1957, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, May 26 - November 2, 1981. . Henri Michaux, Exposition Itinérante,The Seibu Museum of Art,Tokyo, January 2 - February 21, 1983, exhibition no. 61, reproduced on page 73 of catalog, Kitakyushu, April 2 - May 2, 1983 and Ohtsu May 15 - June 15, 1983. . Passions Privées, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, December 1995 - March 1996, exhibition no. 147, reproduced on catalog page 301... Forces Fields: Phases of the Kinetic, Hayward Gallery, London, exhibition nos. 134 to 136. Bibliography. . Julian de Ajuriaguerra and François Jaeggi, Le Poète Henri Michaux et les Drogues hallucinogènes (Contribution à la connaissance des psychoses toxiques. Expériences et découvertes du poète Henri Michaux), Sandoz, Basel, 1963, reproduced (upside down) on page 25. . Will appear in the catalog raisonné of Henri Michaux's work currently being prepared by Micheline Phankim, Rainer Michael Mason and Franck Leibovici. This work is referenced in the Michaux archives - Micheline Phankim, Rainer Michael Mason and Franck Leibovici - under no. HM5811. Sale by court order. Buyer's fee 14.28% incl. VAT + Live fee 1.80% incl. VAT if auctioned on Drouot Live.