The first worldwide retrospective of his painting and graphic work opens at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Galerie Motte in Geneva; later retrospectives are held many times in Paris, Brussels, Vienna, Stockholm, Lisbon, New York, Montreal and Tokyo.
28 June 1964 – 6 October 1964
Exhibition: Documenta III
1965
Refuses the national literature prize
He refuses to accept France's grand prix national des Lettres, as he refused every honor he was accorded in his life. Other accounts date this to 1964.
1965 · Award
Grand prix national des Lettres
1966
“The Major Ordeals of the Mind” appears
“The Major Ordeals of the Mind and the Countless Minor Ones” appears, one of his autobiographical texts chronicling his psychedelic experiments with LSD and mescaline.
