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Plate (folio 16) from HORS DE LA COLLINE
1983 · Lithograph, printed in color
irreg. composition 10 x 9 3/8" (25.5 x 23.8 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Henri Michaux
1899–1984
Namur, Belgium
PaintingSurrealism
Representation
None documented
8
Institutional Exhibitions
64
Works in Collection
123
Assets Indexed
2
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Publications Referenced
90%
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- • Surrealism
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Drawing since 1940
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1987
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Recent Acquisitions: Contemporary Prints
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1986
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American Prints: 1900�1960; Recent Acquisitions: Illustrated Books
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985–1986
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The Expressionist Idiom
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985
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Printed Art: A View of Two Decades
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1980
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Henri Michaux was a Belgian-born French experimental poet, writer and painter. Michaux is renowned for his strange, highly original poetry and prose, and also for his art: the Paris Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York had shows of his work in 1978. His autobiographical texts that chronicle his psychedelic experiments with LSD and mescaline include Miserable Miracle and The Major Ordeals of the Mind and the Countless Minor Ones. He is recognised for his idiosyncratic travelogues and books of art criticism. Michaux is also known for his stories about Plume – "a peaceable man" – one of the most unenterprising heroes in literature, a character subject to many misfortunes.
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Art Institute of Chicago
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