Miquel Barceló & Guillaume Apollinaire - Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d’Orphée

At the crossroads of poetry and art, Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d’Orphée brings together the pen of Guillaume Apollinaire and the gesture of Miquel Barceló in an exceptional work. This art- ist’s book, conceived as a vibrant tribute to the poet’s imagination, gives birth to an incandescent bestiary, as erudite as it is wild.

Miquel Barceló deploys twenty-four original color lithographs, produced at the Atelier Clot, Bramsen & Co in Paris. Folded into triptychs and printed on BFK Rives paper, they form a procession of powerful, organic images, in which each animal becomes the embodiment of a vital force, a symbol, a mystery. The plates, punc- tuated by the artist’s engraved culs-de-lampe, are accompanied by calligraphic titles and texts in his own hand, giving the whole a coherence that is both plastic and poetic.

This limited-edition book is housed in a wooden box covered with printed canvas, hot-stamped by Barceló himself. It is the thirty-third entry in the Une rêverie émanée de mes loisirs collection - a total, sensory work that combines the power of line, the memory of words and the spirit of great books.

This set constitutes the complete edition of Une rêverie émanée de mes loisirs XXXIII.

Dimensions: 33.5 × 30.7 cm (Case) / 30 × 28 cm (Closed sheet) / 30 × 84 cm (Open sheet)
Printing: Atelier Clot, Bramsen & Co, Paris
Contents: 24 original color lithographs
Format: 30 × 84 cm, folded into three panels
Paper: BFK Rives, 270 gsm (Plates) / Vélin d’Arches, 400 gsm (Cover)

Each plate includes a cul-de-lampe created by the artist
Titles and texts handwritten by Miquel Barceló
Wooden case, covered with printed cloth and hot-stamped by Miquel Barceló

108 numbered copies from 1 to 108
15 hors commerce copies numbered from I to XV
25 copies for the artist marked EA1 to EA25
12  nominative copies, unnumbered

All copies are signed by the artist.

Published in June 2025

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