Kesoyan’s book collection, assembled over years of academic and artistic research into the medium, spans more than 500 book objects and over a century of creative history. Many are rarely seen works, including a signed edition of Andy Warhol’s Wild Raspberries, Joan Miró’s Courtisan Grotesque with Iliazd, Leonor Fini’s visual interpretations of Edgar Allan Poe, and Henri Matisse’s illustrated Pasiphaé. A curated selection from this collection  are on view alongside the artists’ responses:

Andy Warhol

Wild Raspberries, 1959

Selected by Simon Bejer

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Poe (Edgar Allan)

Contes: Mystérieux et Fantastique, 1952

Illustrated by Leonor Fini

Selected by Matilda Sutton

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Irma Blank

No Words, 1994

Selected by Laila Tara H

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Adrian De Monluc, Comte De Cranial

Le Courtisan grotesque (The Grotesque Courtier), 1974

Illustrated by Joan Miró

Typography by Iliazd

Selected by Anna Perach

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Alexander Pushkin

Conte de Tsar Saltan, 1921

Illustrated by Natala Goncharova

Selected by Tancredi di Carcaci

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Keith Smith

BOOK 91 (String Book), 1982

Selected by Radhika Khimji

John Baldessari

Brutus Killed Ceasar, 1982

Selected by Kristy Chan

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Henry de Montherlant

Pasiphaé, Chant de Minos, 1981

Illustrated by Henri Matisse

Selected by Lisa-Marie Harris