Henri Michaux: Mescaline Drawings
The Courtauld Gallery The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London, United KingdomThe Courtauld Gallery
This display celebrates the unique Mescaline Drawings by the Franco-Belgian poet and visual artist, Henri Michaux (1899 -1984). In January 1955, as part of an experiment prompted by his publisher, Michaux tried the psychedelic drug mescaline, a product derived from the Mexican peyote cactus. The aim of the experiment was to investigate the effect of […]