Unique miniature erotic artist's book, hand-painted and collaged onto a France Poste mailing label booklet.
Fine.
Price: $1,250.00
These twenty-six scenes, paired with an indelicate word or phrase for each letter of the alphabet, feature real postage-stamp reproductions of famous figures by Matisse, Boucher, and others, with Jacobi's own illustrations reaching in to interact with the art in ways not usually permitted at the Louvre.
Read more: Cosnard, "Michéa Jacobi, l'écrivain obsédé des abécédaires," Le Monde.
(Marseilles): (Michéa Jacobi), (2003). 3.25'' x 2.75'', in 5.5'' x 6'' box. Original side-stapled and perforated postal booklet, illustrated throughout with pictorial postage stamps and hand-painted and -lettered additions. Housed in original handmade decorative paper box enclosure. Tiny closed tear to cover perforation line. Minor edgewear, smudge to inside of box lid.
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