Jean Royère Mono­graph Box Set

This linen-bound, two-volume boxed mono­graph docu­ments the work of Jean Royère through essays, inter­views, archival mate­r­ial, and a compre­hen­sive visual record.

The first volume exam­ines Royère’s work through four thematic cate­gories drawn from his own vocab­u­lary: The Vegetal Realm, The Animal World, The Imag­i­na­tive Realm, and Line and Design. It includes essays by Jacques Lacoste and Patrick Seguin, inter­views conducted by Françoise Claire Prodhon, and mate­r­ial related to the 2008 Jean Royère exhi­bi­tion at the Sonnabend Gallery in New York.

The second volume opens with a 1963 inter­view between Royère and Pascal Renous, followed by a docu­mented cata­logue of 380 works with illus­trated vari­a­tions. The book concludes with a sketch­book section present­ing 156 previ­ously unpub­lished draw­ings, offer­ing insight into Royère’s working process.