Alain De La Bourdonnaye Peintre, Graveur, Artisan-Architecte Du Livre, Typographe, Imprimeur Et Bâtisseur

Alain de La Bourdonnaye (1930-2016), a "book craftsman-architect" and representative of the golden age of the artist's book, created around thirty works from 1955 onwards.

A friend of Vieira da Silva and Árpád Szenes, the artist identified with lyrical abstraction from the 1950s until the late 1970s, when he decided to devote himself exclusively to illustrated books. As a typographer, printer and book designer, he produced texts that were in turn romantic, surrealist, mystical, disturbing or funny. He printed very few copies and no longer numbered them.

This 3-volume catalogue raisonné brings together Alain de La Bourdonnaye's entire artistic output: paintings, gouaches, drawings, sculptures, engravings and illustrated books. The work also includes a biography of the artist and various personal accounts, including Paul Ruffié's study of the Ampelle site, a small 13th-century Gascon château where La Bourdonnaye expressed his absolute aspirations in stone.