Henri Michaux
- Introduction
- Henri Michaux (French: [miʃo]; 24 May 1899 – 19 October 1984) was a highly idiosyncratic Belgian-born poet, writer, and painter who wrote in French. He later took French citizenship. Michaux is best known for his esoteric novels and poems written in an accessible yet erratic and unnerving style. His body of work includes poetry, travelogues, and art criticism. Michaux travelled widely, tried his hand at several careers, and experimented with psychedelic drugs, especially LSD and mescaline, which resulted in two of his most intriguing works, Miserable Miracle and The Major Ordeals of the Mind and the Countless Minor Ones.
- Wikidata
- Q160780
- Nationalities
- French, Belgian
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist, Poet, Illustrator, Painter, Pastelist, Pastellist
- Names
- Henri Michaux, Henrik Michaux, H. Michaux, Anri Misho, Henri Misho
- Ulan
- 500010619
Exhibitions
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Degree Zero: Drawing at Midcentury
Through Feb 6
MoMA
Last chance -
401: Out of War
Ongoing
MoMA
Collection gallery
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Soldier, Spectre, Shaman: The Figure and the Second
World War Oct 24, 2015–Apr 3, 2016
MoMA
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Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language
May 6–Aug 27, 2012
MoMA
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Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings, Part One
Jan 26–Apr 24, 2006
MoMA
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Henri Michaux has
19 exhibitionsonline.
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Henri Michaux Untitled from the supplementary suite for Meidosems 1948
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Henri Michaux Meidosems 1948
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Henri Michaux Plate (page 7) from Meidosems 1948
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Henri Michaux Plate (page 17) from Meidosems 1948
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Henri Michaux Plate (page 25) from Meidosems 1948
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Henri Michaux Plate (page 33) from Meidosems 1948
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Henri Michaux Plate (page 43) from Meidosems 1948
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Henri Michaux Double page plate (between pages 50 and 51) from Meidosems 1948
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Henri Michaux Plate (page 55) from Meidosems 1948
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Henri Michaux Plate (page 65) from Meidosems 1948
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Henri Michaux Plate (page 75) from Meidosems 1948
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Henri Michaux Plate (page 85) from Meidosems 1948
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Henri Michaux Plate (page 93) from Meidosems 1948
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Henri Michaux Plate (page 97) from Meidosems 1948
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Henri Michaux Wrapper from Meidosems 1948
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Henri Michaux Untitled 1946–48
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Henri Michaux Untitled 1960
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Henri Michaux Mescaline Drawing (1960)
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Henri Michaux Untitled (1961)
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Henri Michaux Hors de la Colline (1983)
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