Patrick Seguin / Jean Royere - Jean Royère, 2 Volume Set - 2012

The offered edition is completely new and sealed.

P.E. Martin-Vivier, Galerie Jacques Lacoste & Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, 2012

In 2008, the galleries Jacques Lacoste and Patrick Seguin organized a large exhibition dedicated to the work of Jean Royère at the Sonnabend Gallery in New York.
A reference work, this two-volume monograph approaches Jean Royère’s work from a new angle, highlighting a singular and innovative universe whose dynamics are based on absolute creative freedom.
Presented in a boxed set, the 676 page book is composed of two volumes.

Volume 1 (303 pages) :
Introduced by prefaces by Jacques Lacoste and Patrick Seguin, this volume contains three interviews with Lorenz Baümer, Béatrice Salmon and Christian Lacroix, conducted by Françoise-Claire Prodhon (art historian and journalist) and is followed by a chapter retracing the Jean Royère exhibition at the Sonnabend Gallery, New York, in 2008. Royère’s work is then approached through four major themes inspired by his creations : the Plant, the Animal, the Imaginary and Line and Drawing. Each of these four themes, introduced by a text by Françoise-Claire Prodhon, is richly illustrated with archival and contemporary images.

Volume 2 (373 pages) :
Opening with an interview of Jean Royère with Pascal Renous in 1963, this second volume contains an important lexicon, “The Repertoire of Jean Royère”, which includes 380 pieces of furniture and creations, referenced and illustrated, as well as their different variants. Following this repertoire, a “Notebook of Drawings and Tracings” reproduces for the first time 156 original drawings by Jean Royère.