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Rétro-chaos Memoirs

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Rétro-chaos

Memoirs

Daniel Cordier
Prefaced, edited, and annotated by Bénédicte Vergez-Chaignon
Paris, Gallimard, 1970

Rétro-chaos is Daniel Cordier's life story, from childhood to the writing of Alias Caracalla. Mixing unpublished anecdotes and retrospective reflections with his usual spontaneity, he revisits his relationship with Jean Dubuffet, at a time when he was a major figure on the contemporary art market. 

Fondation Dubuffet

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Fondation Dubuffet

Françoise Bonnefoy
Paris, nouvelles éditions Scala, 1970

Published for the 50th anniversary of the Dubuffet Foundation, this new opus of the collection ‘L'esprit du lieu’ printed by Scala invites the reader to discover the two sites of the institution. One is in Paris, in a 19th century private mansion that regularly presents temporary exhibitions. The other one is in Périgny-sur-Yerres and presents Jean Dubuffet's major work, the Closerie Falbabla.

Amateur d'art. Alias Caracalla 1946-1977 suivi de Monsieur et Madame Dubuffet n'ont pas eu le fils qu'ils méritaient

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Amateur d'art. Alias Caracalla 1946-1977

suivi de Monsieur et Madame Dubuffet n'ont pas eu le fils qu'ils méritaient

Daniel Cordier
Prefaced, edited, and annotated by Bénédicte Vergez-Chaignon
Paris, Gallimard, 1970

Daniel Cordier has had many lives. Alias Caracalla follows up after the war. Jean Moulin’s former secretary turns to art. He sets up a collection with works of De Staël or Hartung, then opens his galleries in Paris, New York, and Frankfurt, where he exhibits Jean Dubuffet, among others.

This edition includes unpublished pages and illustration from Daniel Cordier’s life, as well as an incomplete biographical text dedicated to Jean Dubuffet, whose first retrospective exhibition was organized in 1959.