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Heures Dispersees

Item date(s): 2015

Marie Grégoire
François Righi - (book artist)

Pages: unpaged
Size: 260mm
Inscription: Signed by the author and the artist
Edition: #5/31

Place publication: Ivoy-le-Pré, France
Publisher: Les livres sont muets
Cat. 140-C6-4/5
Exhibition 2017

Additional notes:
Bound Japanese style onto bamboo strips within wrap-around printed paper cover with decorated board chemise in similarly decorated black slipcase.

31 exemplaires sur papier Japon Minota.

Michael Woolworth à Paris pour la lithographie.

Francois Righi à Ivoy-le-Pre pour les gravures

Emile Moreau à Henrichemont pour la typographie.

La plafond à caissons, alternant emblemes et putti, qui coiffe l'oratoire de l'hotel Lallemant, a Bourges, constitue la reference iconographique des dessins.

Ceux des cernes du temps suivent les 14 caissons decores de putti.

Le frontispice rapelle les 16 caissons emblematiques qui font l'objet lu livre de Robert Marteau, Le Miroir Volatil.

Google translate:

The panelled ceiling, with alternating emblems and putti, which caps the oratory of the Lallemant hotel in Bourges, constitutes the iconographic reference designs.

Those circles of the time accompany 14 handpainted boxes of putti.

The frontispiece recalls the 16 iconic boxes that are the object read book by Robert Marteau, The Ethereal Mirror.

Reference note:
This book, made in collaboration with Marie Gregoire, features drawings and thoughts inspired by the coffered ceiling in the oratory of the Hôtel Lallemant, a Renaissance-era building in Bourges. The fourteen coffers decorated with cherubs are the inspiration for Righi's intricate drawings and calligraphies showing the circles of time, while the sixteen coffers decorated with crests are the inspiration for the engraved frontispiece. Two additional engravings further illustrate the book.

Exhibition notes:
Item 0140 - C6-4/5/6 on Booknesses: Artists' books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection.

UJ Art Gallery, University of Johannesburg

25 March to 5 May 2017

Paper. JBCBA, WAM. 4 February – 6 May 2025

Ref: GB/14702