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Six millions sept cent soixante-cinq mille deux cent une Sainte-Victoire

Author
Vera Molnár
Year
2012
Publisher
Bernard Chauveau
ISBN
9782363060617
Tags
artist-book · computer art history · physical · owned · livre-objet

Notes

A livre-objet: 112 pages of cut horizontal bands that recombine into Cézanne's Montagne Sainte-Victoire. The publisher's arithmetic gives 6,765,201 possible combinations — the number in the title — and notes that at ten seconds a combination it would take more than two years of full-time looking to see them all. Molnár had circled Sainte-Victoire for decades; this is the mountain handed over to combinatorics. Published by Bernard Chauveau, Paris, 2012, with an interview text by David Quéré. Hardcover, 21 × 15 cm, 336 g. Limited edition of 220 copies, signed and numbered by Vera Molnár. Bought from Okmhistoire (St Rémy-des-Monts, Sarthe) via AbeBooks, €500 plus €9.90 shipping, condition new. Photographed in the collection August 2026.