Seghers, Pierre - Dubuffet, Jean. - *L’Homme du commun*. Par - Lot 554

Seghers, Pierre - Dubuffet, Jean. - *L’Homme du commun*. Paris: Éditions Poésie 44, 1944. Large 8vo, paperback with illustrated filled-in cover—ink bleed from the frontispiece onto the colophon and title page (commonly found in this edition)—31 pp. (the last unnumbered), [3 pp., blank, completed, blank]. Illustrated with 2 lithographs by Dubuffet: the first, in black on the cover, titled “Cyclotourisme,” signed and dated in the stone 13/IX/44; the second, in color on the frontispiece, titled “Départ à cheval,” signed and dated in the stone IX/44. Printed by Mourlot Frères. Edition of 161 copies; this one is one of 140 printed on Arches vellum. First edition of these aphorisms on painting, dedicated to Jean Paulhan.