Le Parfait criminel

Original colour lithograph printed in an edition of 60 on Arches paper. There are a few artist’s proofs and hors-commerce proofs. A few proofs on Japan paper. This lithograph, printed across a double page, forms part of the book of poems Le Parfait criminel, by Alain Jouffroy, published by Éditions Fata Morgana in 1971. Letterpress printing: Fata Morgana. Lithographic printing: Arte. 16 × 24 cm.

A variant with margins (32.5 × 50 cm) was printed in an edition of 100 numbered copies on Arches paper.

Exhibitions

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Public sales

• 03/05/2007 – Paris, Artcurial, copy on Japan paper, unnumbered, Alain Jouffroy collection, lot no. 320.
• 25/02/2017 – Paris, FauveParis, copy no. 53/100, with margins, lot no. 254.

Bibliography

• Le Parfait criminel, Alain Jouffroy, Alain Le Yaouanc, Éditions Fata Morgana, Saint-Clément-de-Rivière, 1971
• Le Yaouanc Aragon, Carmen Martinez et La Pierre d’Angle éditeur, Paris, 1979, ill. p. 30.
• Record no. FRBnF34699742 in the general catalogue of the BnF, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal.

Catalogue raisonné reference: LITH1970-0003