Alfred Jarry: The Carnival of Being, January 24 to May 10, 2020, Engelhard Gallery, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York.
introduction
- Mardi Gras mask, ca. late 19th-early 20th cent., color lithograph; on verso: letters from Alfred Jarry (1873–1907) to Alfred Vallette (1858–1935) and to Rachilde (1860–1953), 11 February 1907. Collection of Jean Bonna.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Pen and ink drawing, ca. 1896, on the cover of Les minutes de sable mémorial (Paris: Mercure de France, 1894). Printed on green paper, inscribed to Catulle Mendès (1841–1909). Collection of Jean Bonna.
I. the wild boy of laval - Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Illustration for “Les fœtus de M. Lesoûl,” ca. 1890, pencil on paper. Collection of Jean Bonna.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). “Berceuse pour endormir le mort,” in L’art littéraire, no. 13 (December 1893). The Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Pen and ink drawing, ca. 1896, on the cover of Ubu roi (Paris: Mercure de France, 1896). Printed on Hollande, inscribed to Catulle Mendès (1841–1909). Collection of Jean Bonna.
- Marcel Schwob (1867–1905). La croisade des enfants (Paris: Mercure de France, 1896). Inscribed to Marie Rochegrosse (1852–1920). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2019. PML 198234.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Illustration for Haldernablou, ca. 1893–94, pen and ink. Collection of Christopher Champion, Librairie Faustroll.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Manuscript for three poems “after and for P. Gauguin,” ca. 1893–94. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Purchased for the Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the Gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2019. MA 22740.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Sainte Gertrude, woodcut, in L’Ymagier, no. 5 (October 1895). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197081.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Illustrated letter to Charlotte Jarry (1865–1925), June 1894. Collection of Jean Bonna.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Portrait of Ubu, 1896, woodcut, restruck ca. 1942. The Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Letter to Rachilde (1860–1953), 7 September 1904. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. MA 9073.
- Rachilde (1860–1953). Monsieur Vénus (Paris: Librairie française, L. Genonceaux & cie, 1902). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Purchased on The Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2019. PML 198187.
- Unidentified photographer. Alfred Jarry, Rachilde, and Marie Thérèse Collière in Corbeil, ca. 1898, gelatin silver print. The Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection.
- Félix Vallotton (1865–1925). Portrait of Alfred Jarry (1873–1907), in La revue blanche, no. 184 (February 1901). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197158.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). L’amour en visites (Paris: P. Fort, 1898). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197023.
ii. the pataphysics of the book - Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Les minutes de sable mémorial (Paris: Mercure de France, 1894). Inscribed to Octave Mirbeau (1848–1917). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197017.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). César-antechrist (Paris: Mercure de France, 1895). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197018.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Les minutes de sable mémorial (Paris: Mercure de France, 1894). Printed on green, mauve, and orange papers. Collection of Christophe Champion, Librairie Faustroll.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). César-antechrist (Paris: Mercure de France, 1895). From the library of André Breton (1896–1966). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2012. PML 195786.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Cover design for special copies of César-antechrist (Paris: Mercure de France, 1895). Collection of Christophe Champion, Librairie Faustroll.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Les quatre hérauts porte-torches [et] Monsieur Ubu, ca. 1895–96, unknown printing process. Collection of Christophe Champion, Librairie Faustroll.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Le crocodile aux phantasmes, ca. 1894, oil on board. Collection of Robert Dean.
- Paul Fort (1872–1960). Ballades: la mer, les cloches, les champs, édition ornée de bois originaux de Maurice Dumont, Charles Huard, Maurice Delcourt et Alfred Jarry (Paris: Édition du Livre d’Art et de l’Épreuve, 1896). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Purchased for the Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018. PML 197652.1.
- Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915). Le latin mystique: les poètes de l'antiphonaire et la symbolique au moyen âge… miniature de [Charles] Filiger (Paris: Mercure de France, 1892). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2019. PML 198266.
- Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915). Théodat (Paris: Mercure de France, 1893). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2019. PML 198459.
- Paul Gauguin (1848–1903). La Madeleine, wood engraving after a monotype, in L’Ymagier, no. 3 (April 1895). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197080.
- Fold-out spread of Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915), Sainte Madeleine, wood engraving, and Armand Séguin (1869–1903), Femme couchée, zincograph, in L’Ymagier, no. 2 (January 1895). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197080.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). César-antechrist, lithograph, in L’Ymagier, no. 2 (January 1895). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197080.
- Fold-out spread of Alfred Jarry (1873–1907), “Les monstres,” and South Asian woodcut, in L’Ymagier, no. 2 (January 1895). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197080.
- Fold-out spread of Alfred Jarry (1873–1907), “La Passion,” and François Georgin (1801–1863), Jésus sur la croix, Épinal print, 1824, reprinted by the Pellerin firm, in L’Ymagier, no. 1 (October 1894). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197080.
- François Georgin (1801–1863). Le miroir du pécheur, Épinal print, 1825, reprinted by the Pellerin firm, in L’Ymagier, no. 1 (October 1894). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197080.
- François Georgin (1801–1863). Notre-Dame des Ermites, Épinal print, 1824, reprinted by the Pellerin firm, in L’Ymagier, no. 3 (April 1895). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197080.
- Henri Rousseau (1844–1910). La Guerre, ca. 1894, oil on canvas. Paris, Musée d’Orsay, RF 1946 1.
- Henri Rousseau (1844–1910). La Guerre, lithograph, in L’Ymagier, no. 2 (January 1895). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197080.
- Henri Rousseau (1844–1910). Letter to Alfred Jarry, 26 June 1894. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Purchased for the Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2019. MA 22741.1.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Cover illustration, in L’Ymagier, no. 5 (October 1895). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197082.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907), ed. Perhinderion, no. 1 (March 1896). Inscribed to Armand Silvestre (1837–1901). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197086.
- Émile Bernard (1868–1941). L’annonciation, hand-colored zincograph, in Perhinderion, no. 2 (June 1896). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197087.
iii. the author of ubu roi - Edvard Munch (1863–1944). Program for Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt at the Théâtre de l’Œuvre, 1896, lithograph on wove paper. Brooklyn Museum of Art. Gift of Jean Goriany.
- Jean de Tinan (1874–1898). Letter to Alfred Jarry (1873–1907), 3 July 1896. Collection of Christophe Champion, Librairie Faustroll.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Les minutes de sable mémorial (Paris: Mercure de France, 1894). Printed on mauve paper, inscribed to Aurélien Lugné-Poe (1869-1940). Purchased for the Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2019. PML 198464.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Postcard to Aurélien Lugné-Poe (1869–1940) on Perhinderion stationery, [1896]. Collection of Christophe Champion, Librairie Faustroll.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Program for Ubu roi at the Théâtre de l’Œuvre, 1896, lithograph. Collection Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. Museum Purchase.
- Ubu roi: comédie guignolesque de M. Alfred Jarry, musique de M. Terrasse, orchestre sous la direction de l'auteur [program brochure] (Paris: La Critique, 1896). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Purchased for the Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2019. PML 198466.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Manuscript for “De l’inutilité du théâtre au théâtre,” 1896. Collection of Christophe Champion, Librairie Faustroll.
- Unidentified artist. “Merde v’là l’I vert” from Le mur, ca. 1895–96, graphite and colored pencil. Collection Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. Acquired with the Herbert D. and Ruth Schimmel Museum Library Fund.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). “Ubu roi,” in Livre d’Art no. 2 (April 1896). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197088.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Ubu roi: Drame en cinq actes en prose restitué en son intégrité tel qu’il a été représenté par les marionnettes du Théâtre des Phynances en 1888 (Paris: Mercure de France, 1896). Inscribed to Francis Chevassu (1861–1918). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197019.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907) and Claude Terrasse (1867–1923). Ubu roi, texte et musique, facsimile autographique (Paris: Mercure de France, 1897). Printed on chine, from the library of Jacques Lacan (1901–1981). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197020.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Annotated page proofs for Ubu enchaîné, précédé de Ubu roi (Paris: La Revue Blanche, ca. 1900). Inscribed to Rachel Kahn (1860–1933). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197027.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Program for Ubu roi at the Théâtre des Pantins, ca. 1898, lithograph. Collection Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. Museum Purchase, David A. and Mildred H. Morse Art Acquisition Fund.
- Les soirées de Paris, no. 24 (1914). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197215.
- Claude Terrasse (1867–1923). Répertoire des Pantins: Ouverture d’Ubu roi; Marche des polonaise; La chanson du décervelage, paroles d’Alfred Jarry (Paris: Mercure de France, 1898). Cover illustrations by Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197089-91.
- Claude Terrasse (1867–1923). Répertoire des Pantins: 3 chansons à la charcutière: I, Du pays tourangeau; II, Malheureuse Adèle!; III, Velas, ou, L'officier de fortune, poèmes de Franc-Nohain (Paris: Mercure de France, 1898). Cover illustrations by Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197092-94.
- Claude Terrasse (1867–1923). Répertoire des Pantins: Berceuse obscène, poésie de Franc-Nohain (Paris: Mercure de France, 1898). Cover illustration by Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197097.
- Les Quat’z’arts, no. 5 (December 1897), cover illustration by Charles Léandre (1862–1934). Collection Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. Acquired with the Herbert D. and Ruth Schimmel Museum Library Fund.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Manuscript for Ubu roi at the Cabaret des Quat’z’arts, ca. 1901, printed pages with autograph title page, annotated revisions, and manuscript additions pasted in. Collection of Jean Bonna.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Ubu sur la butte. Théâtre mirlitonesque (Paris: Sansot et Cie, 1906). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197031.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Par la taille: Un acte comique et moral, en prose et en vers. Théâtre mirlitonesque (Paris: E. Sansot & cie, 1906). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197032.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Le moutardier du pape: Opérette bouffe en trois actes (Paris: s.n., 1907). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197034.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907) and Eugène Demolder (1862–1919). Pantagruel: Opéra-bouffe en cinq actes et six tableaux, musique de Claude Terrasse (Paris: Société d’éditions musicales, 1911). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197036.
- Louis Schneider (1861–1934). “Grand Théâtre de Lyon: Pantagruel: Opéra héroï-comique en 5 actes et 6 tableaux, de MM. A. Jarry et E. Demolder, musique de M. C. Terrasse,” in Le théâtre, no. 293 (1911). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2017. PML 197666.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Almanach du Père Ubu illustré (Paris: s.n., [1898]). Illustrations by Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197025.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Almanach du Père Ubu illustré (Paris: s.n., [1898]). Illustrations by Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947). The Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Almanach illustré du Père Ubu (XXe siècle) (Paris: [Ambroise Vollard], 1901). Illustrations by Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197098.
- Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947). La revue blanche, 1894, lithograph. Collection Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. Gift of the Class of 1958, Twentieth Reunion.
iv. beautiful like literature - Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). “Commentaire pour servir à la construction pratique de la machine à explorer le temps,” in Mercure de France, no. 110 (February 1899). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197152.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). “La Passion considérée comme course de côte,” in Le canard sauvage, no. 4 (April 1903). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197119.
- Le canard sauvage, no. 19 (1903). Cover illustration by Auguste Roubille (1872–1955). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197134.
- Le canard sauvage, no. 13 (1903). Cover illustration by František Kupka (1871–1957). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197128.
- Le canard sauvage, no. 15 (1903). Cover illustration by Félix Vallotton (1865–1925). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197138.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Gestes et opinions du docteur Faustroll, pataphysicien: Roman néo-scientifique, suivi de Spéculations (Paris: Eugène Fasquelle, 1911). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197152.
- C. V. Boys (1855–1944). Soap-Bubbles and the Forces Which Mould Them (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1890). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2019. PML 198458.
- Emile Verhaeren (1855–1916). Les campagnes hallucinées (Brussels: Edmond Deman, [1893]). Cover illustration by Théo van Rysselberghe (1862–1926). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of the Trustees of the Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection, 1977. Heineman 597.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Le surmâle: Roman moderne (Paris: P. A. Chavane, 1948). Illustrations by Roger de Valerio (1886–1951). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Purchased for the Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2019. PML 198460.
- “Catalogue illustré des célèbres cycles Clément,” Société des vélocipèdes Clément, no. 4 (1895). Collection of Pryor Dodge.
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901). La Chaîne Simpson, 1896, color brush and spatter lithograph on tan wove paper. The Art Institute of Chicago. Gift of the Gecht Family, 2015.278.
- Gaston Jobard. Envelope addressed to Alfred Jarry (1873–1907), stamped 3 October 1907. On verso: Letter from Jarry to Jobard, [October 1907]. Collection of Christophe Champion, Librairie Faustroll.
- Unidentified photographer. Jarry and Alfred Vallette in Corbeil, ca. 1898, silver gelatin print. The Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection.
- Unidentified photographer. Alfred Jarry fencing with his teacher Félix Blaviel in Laval, 1906, with ink inscriptions for Alfred Vallette (1858–1935) and Rachilde (1860–1953). The Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Letter to Rachilde (1860–1953), 28 May 1906 (“The Testament of Père Ubu”). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. MA 9074.
v. prophet of the avant-garde - Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918), ed. Le festin d’Ésope: Revue des belles lettres, no. 2 (1903). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197216.
- F. T. Marinetti (1876–1944), ed. Poesia, no. 11–12 (1908–9). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Purchased for the Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2017. PML 197661.
- Ambroise Vollard (1867–1939). Les réincarnations du Père Ubu ([Rouen]: Société Normande des amis du livre; Paris: Sur les presses de Fequet et Baudier, 1955). Illustrations by Georges Rouault (1871–1958). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Purchased for the Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2017. PML 197714.
- Ambroise Vollard (1867–1939). Le Père Ubu à l’aviation (Paris: Éditions Georges Crès et cie, 1918). Cover illustration by Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197109.
- Ambroise Vollard (1867–1939). Le Père Ubu à la guerre (Paris: Éditions Georges Crès et cie, 1920). Cover illustration by Jean Puy (1876–1960). The Morgan Library & Museum. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197113.
- Pablo Picasso (1881–1973). Dream and Lie of Franco I–II, 1937, etching and sugar-lift aquatint. Lent by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. E. Powis Jones, 1986; 1986.1224.1(1–2).
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Ubu roi, lithographies originales de Joan Miró (Paris: Tériade éditeur, 1966). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197100.
- Joan Miró (1893–1983). L’enfance d’Ubu, 1975, lithograph. The Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection.
- Dora Maar (1907–1997). Père Ubu, 1936, gelatin silver print. Lent by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gilman Collection, Purchase, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, by exchange, 2005; 2005.100.443.
- Ubu enchaîné ([Paris]: s.n., [1937]). Cover illustration by Jean Effel (1908–1982). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018. PML 198110.
- Max Ernst (1891–1976). Set design for Alfred Jarry, Ubu enchaîné, 1937, graphite and wax crayon, with collage of cut relief-printed papers. The Art Institute of Chicago. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro.
- Max Ernst (1891–1976). Here We Are in France, set design for Alfred Jarry, Ubu enchaîné, 1937, graphite, over wax crayon, with collage of cut relief-printed papers. The Art Institute of Chicago. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro.
- André Breton (1896–1966). Le jeu de Marseille, in VVV, no. 2–3 (March 1943). llustrations by Oscar Dominguez (1906–1957) and Wifredo Lam (1902–1982). The Morgan Library & New York. Purchased in 2007. PML 198102.
- Antonin Artaud (1896–1948) and Roger Vitrac (1899–1952). Le Théâtre Alfred Jarry et l’hostilité publique ([Paris: s.n., 1930]). Cover illustration by G.-L. Roux (1904–1988). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018. PML 198083.
- Mary Reynolds (1891–1950) and Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968). Bookbinding, 1934–35, goatskin, gilt, silk, and glassine, on Alfred Jarry (1873–1907), Ubu roi (Paris: Librarie Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1921). The Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries.
- Mary Reynolds (1891–1950). Bookbinding, ca. 1940, calf and other leathers, copper, gilt, and glassine, on Alfred Jarry (1873–1907), Gestes et opinions du Docteur Faustroll, pataphysicien (Paris: Librairie Stock, 1923). The Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries.
- Simon Watson Taylor (1923–2005), ed. Free Unions, no. 1 (1946). Cover illustration by Conroy Maddox (1912–2005). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Purchased for the Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018. PML 198099.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Ubu roi: A Drama in 5 Acts. Translated by Barbara Wright (1915–2009) (London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1951). Illustrations by Franciszka Themerson (1907–1988). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Purchased for the Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2019. PML 198260.
- Ubu the King [and John Ashbery (1927–2017), The Heroes] (New York: [The Living Theatre], [1952]). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Purchased for the Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018. PML 197920.
- David Hockney (b. 1937). Mr + Mrs Ubu, costume designs for Alfred Jarry, Ubu roi, 1966, colored pencil and pencil on paper. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the Trustees of the Pastorale Fund, 1967.
- Hans Bellmer (1902–1975). The Palace of King Ubu, 1936, colored ink on colored paper mounted on colored paper. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase, 1937.
- Jean Tinguely (1925–1991). Appareil à dessiner et à peindre [Brevet d’invention] ([Paris]: Ministère de l’Industrie, Service de la propriété industrielle, [1960]). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018. PML 197949.
- Bob Brown (1886–1959). Readies for Bob Brown’s Machine (Cagnes-sur-Mer: Roving Eye Press, 1931). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018. PML 197919.
- Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) and Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Soleil de printemps ([Paris]: Collège de 'pataphysique, [1957]). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York.
- Hymne des palotins: Tel qu’il fut chanté more antiquissimo à la première d’Ubu cocu le 4 merdre lxxiii ([Paris]: Collège de pataphysique, [1952]). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197052.
- Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985). Oukiva trene sabot ([Paris]: Collège de 'pataphysique, [1958]). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Purchased for the Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018. PML 197887.
- Claude Terrasse (1867–1923). Seconde version musicale de la Chanson du décervelage ([Paris]: Collège de 'pataphysique, [1956]). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197511.
- Raymond Queneau (1903–1976). Lorsque l’esprit ([Paris]: Collège de pataphysique, [1954]). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Purchased for the Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2019.
- Irénée-Louis Sandomir (1914–1973). Oraison funèbre de Mélanie le Plumet ([Paris]: Collège de pataphysique, [1949]). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197048.
- Jean Mollet (1877–1964). Jarry inconnu ([Paris]: Collège de 'pataphysique, [1962]). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197063.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Les nouveaux timbres ([Paris]: Collège de pataphysique, [1952]). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197053.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Tatane ([Paris]: Collège de pataphysique, [1954]). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197057.
- Viridis Candela: Cahiers du Collège de ’Pataphysique, no. 1 (April 1950). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197217.
- Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Le vieux de la montagne (Geneva: Éditions Connaître, [1957]). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197059.
- L’Expojarrysition mande les bouffres du XXe siècle à la Galerie Loize Jean, 1953, lithograph. The Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection.
- Ricardo Mosner (b. 1948). Ubu, 2007, watercolor and acrylic on paper. The Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection.
- Ricardo Mosner (b. 1948). Ubuethe, 2007, mixed media. The Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection.
- Philippe Mouchès (b. 1956). Portrait du Père Ubu à la manière de Claude Mellan (une seule ligne), 2019, digital print. The Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection.
- Boris Vian (1920–1959) and Stanley Chapman (1925–2009). ’Pataphysics? What’s That? (London: The London Institute of ’Pataphysics, 2006). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Purchased for the Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2019. PML 198472.
- Roger Shattuck (1923–2005) and Simon Watson Taylor (1923–2005), eds. “What is ’Pataphysics? [’Pataphysics Is the Only Science],” special issue, Evergreen Review 4, no. 13 (1960). Cover after a design by Juan Esteban Fassio (1924–1980). The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197062.
- Adam Dant (b. 1967). A Chronological Pantheon of Pataphysics, 2012, lithograph. The Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection.
- Thomas Chimes (1921–2009). Faustroll (Hermes), ca. 1988, oil on canvas. The Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection.
- Thomas Chimes (1921–2009). Alfred Jarry (Departure from the Present), 1973, oil on panel. The Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection.
- Thomas Chimes (1921–2009). Alfred Jarry (Departure from the Present) 2, 1973, oil on panel. The Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection.
- Thomas Chimes (1921–2009). Jarry, 1975, oil on panel. The Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection.
- William Kentridge (b. 1955). Ubu Tells the Truth, 1996–97, series of 8 hardground, softground, aquatint, drypoint, and engravings. The Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection.