Book Sculpture NEW YORK SOCIAL REGISTER

by Bruno Pasquier-Desvignes

$750 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

New York : n.p, circa 1985-1987 . Original book sculpture carved into a 1962 Social Register, featuring a figure made of found materials wearing a Sunday hat and perusing society literature from within it. Very good. Item #45504 Bruno Pasquier-Desvignes defies classification. THE NEW YORK TIMES calls him part tinkerer and part storyteller, a cross between Alexander Calder and Jean Tinguely; filmmaker James Ivory

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