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>Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 13:55:59 +0100
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (paulrobertson)
>Subject: "This Season - on the subject of hats" - part 1 of a new list
>from Heart Fine Art
> Ltd.
>
>This Season - on the subject of hats -
>everybody wants a piece of the action and our otherways indefatigable
>correspondent and idea man Monsieur Stephane Mallarme, is no exception -
>'From the fact that at one human date they were put on heads, they will
>always be there. Whoever has put the like of them on once cannot take them
>off. The world will end, not the hat; probably it has existed from all time
>in an invisible state'.
>
>Translation courtesy of MI-6 -
>
>
>Alechinsky, Pierre
>Signed exhibition poster
>Saarland Museum Saarbrücken 1993
>85 x 60 cm offset color lithograph, hand signed by the Cobra artist
>Alechinsky from an unnumbered museum edition of 50. Fine estate. Image on
>request.
>
>95 uk pounds
>
>
>Ayres, Gillian
>Much is the force of a heaven bred poesy
>London: n.p., 1994
>60 x 60 cm colour silkscreen on paper with handcolouring. Edition of 50. A
>typical, if late, tachiste work from the Soho based artist who held amongst
>her close friends Robyn Denny and Howard Hodgkin. Image on request.
>
>500 uk pounds
>
>
>(Bataille, Georges).
>DIEU VIVANT. No.4. Liminaire de Marcel More.
>Paris: self-published, 1945.
>Large 8vo. 157pp. Original wrappers. Single number from the first year of
>this philosophically-oriented avant-garde revue. Contributions from G.
>Bataille, P. Klossowski, J.P. Sartre, M. More, et. al. One of 3500 copies
>on velin blanc, after 20 'du tete' examples. Very good+ estate.
>
>50 uk pounds
>
>
>Bellany, John
>Untitled (Shipwreck)
>Port Seaton, n.p., 1991
>45.7 x 38cm colour silkscreen on paper, signed and numbered from a small
>edition of 25. Bellany's populated, expressionist seascapes reflect his
>early experience amongst the fisherpeople of the Scottish East Coast. Fine
>estate. Image on request.
>
>500 uk pounds
>
>
>Beuys, Joseph
>Honey Is Flowing
>Heidelberg: Edition Staeck, 1974
>10.5 x 15 x 0.3cm silkscreen on transparent vinyl sheet. Unlimited edition
>with only 800 known to have been signed by the artist and a small numbered
>edition of 120 included in the collected Postkarten box (1974). The
>translucent amber colour of the card is reminiscent of honey reflecting
>Beuys' interest in it as an analogue of energy. During "Honigpumpe am
>Arbeitsplatz" Beuys had honey flow through convoluted piping around the
>room during his FIU lecture. Schellman 104. Scarce.
>
>400 uk pounds
>
>
>Blake, Peter
>'S' is for Sumo
>London: n.p., 1991
>103 x 77.5cm colour silkscreen on paper. Signed and numbered from an
>edition of 95. One of a series of late pop-ster "alphabet" prints - others
>available. Image on request.
>
>1,000 uk pounds
>
>
>
>Castro, Lourdes.
>'Untitled' (catalogue).
>Basel: Galerie Felix Handschin, 1968.
>21.3 x 29.6cm. Composed of four unnumbered leaves. Two b/w 'shadow-play'
>images + inserted offset florescent pink print by the artist. Comb-bound
>transparent acetate wrappers with silkscreened photo-based design by
>Castro. A scarce and attractive design work issued for this exhibition
>program. Castro is undoubtedly the most important Portuguese woman artist
>of the post-WWII era. Her activities included the establishment of the
>Paris-based KWY nouveau realiste-affiliated group, and its namesake
>journal. Minor (typical) warping to the ephemeral acetate wrappers, else a
>very good example.
>
>60 uk pounds
>
>
>
>Dufrene, Francois.
>PRAGMETIQUE DU CRIRYTHM Š
>Napoli: V.A.C., Napoli, 1974.
>12mo. 26pp. Original midnight blue wrappers. First edition of this uncommon
>bookwork by the influential sound poet and nouveau realiste. One of only
>200 numbered examples issued. Light even sunning at spine, else a very good
>copy.
>
>70 uk pounds
>
>
>Dumas, Marlene
>Handsigned portrait postcard with added drawn, self-portrait
>13x18 cm offset litho postcard with photographic portrait of Dumas. Verso
>the artist has added a self-portrait sketch and signature. Thus unusual.
>Image on request.
>
>200 uk pounds
>
>
>Fini, Leonor
>Handsigned postcard
>14.8 x 10.5 cm offset litho postcard which has been hand signed verso by
>the artist. The image on the card is "Dimanche apres-medi" from 1981.
>
>65 uk pounds
>
>
>Fini, Leonor
>Handsigned postcard
>14.8 x 10.5 cm offset litho postcard which has been hand signed by the
>artist. The image on the card is "Miss mit Nähmachine".
>
>65 uk pounds
>
>
>Flanagan, Barry
>To the Poet
>London: n.p., 1989
>59.4 x 63cm colour silkscreen on paper. Signed and numbered from a small
>edition of 30. Image on request.
>
>525 uk pounds
>
>
>(Foucault, Michel).
>Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.
>DIALOGUES. Introduction: Michel Foucault.
>Paris: Librarie A. Colin, 1962.
>8vo. 338pp. Printed wrappers. First edition thus of this keynote work from
>the seminal French philosopher and quintessential 'man of feeling' of the
>Romantic period. Here, Foucault contributes an 18 pages preface; surely
>routed through the like discursive methodology, which resulted in his first
>published work 'Histoire de la Folie a L'Age Classique' (1961) and his
>dissertation 'Maladie Mentale et Personalite'. Minor sunning to spine, else
>a very good example. Uncommon.
>
>50 uk pounds
>
>
>
>Gilbert & George
>THE WORLD OF GILBERT AND GEORGE
>London: Enitharmon Press, 2000
>22 x 30.2cm 464pp plus boards. reproduced b/w pen and ink drawings by the
>deadpan duo as a storyboard for an artist's film. An edition of 1,000
>unnumbered copies were produced alongside 150 deluxe numbered copies. This
>is one of the unnumbered edition but is signed in black on the flyleaf
>"With all our love, Gilbert and George".
>
>85 uk pounds
>
>
>Two photographs by Goldin
>
>Goldin, Nan
>"My Room"
> 27 x 39 cm cibachrome print with good margins (30.4 x 40.6 cm). Signed by
>the artist aside from the numbered edition. Image on request.
>
>and
>
>Goldin, Nan
>"Window"
>27 x 39 cm cibachrome print with good margins (30.4 x 40.6 cm). Signed by
>the artist aside from the numbered edition. Image on request.
>
>An empty room and an open window; all life has left the room. Both good
>estate.
>
>950 uk pounds each or both prints for 1750 uk pounds
>
>
>
>Goldin, Nan, Armstron, David and Pierson, Jack
>EMOTIONS & RELATIONS. Signed exhibition poster
>Germany: Hamburger Kunsthalle, 1998
>59.5 x 84 cm offset color lithograph, hand signed by all three artists:
>Armstron, Goldin and Pierson . Fine estate. Image on request.
>
>150 uk pounds
>
>
>Goldin, Nan
>BRUCE BLEACHING HIS EYEBROWS. Signed exhibition poster
>Germany: Hamburger Kunsthalle, 1998
>59.5 x 84 cm offset color lithograph, hand signed by all three artists:
>Armstron, Goldin and Pierson . Fine estate. Image on request.
>
>95 uk pounds
>
>
>
>Goldsworthy, Andy
>"8 Slabs of Snow Grisfield Ellmere Island 5 April 1989"
>75 x 75 cm c-print, framed archivally in a 44 x 43 inch wood frame with
>added small 8 x 5 companion c-print (same image) titled, signed and dated
>by Goldsworthy. The emphemeral nature of the sculpture is frozen in time by
>the photograph. An intervention in nature that is no more. Fine estate.
>
>5,000 uk pounds
>
>
>
>Hendricks, Geoff & Brian Buczak.
>RULERS, LADDERS AND BUCKETS.
>New York: Money for Food Press, 1977.
>12.5cm sq. 14pp. Composed of full-page b/w photo-documentation. Duotone
>photographic wrappers. First edition of this bookwork documentation of the
>title project by these Fluxus affiliates. This copy signed at the colophon
>by both artists. A fine example.
>
>50 uk pounds
>
>
>(Hirst, Damien)
>Moynihan, Danny
>BOOGIE-WOOGIE
>London: Duck Editions, 2000
>20.2 x 16.4 cm, 254 pp plus boards with ribbon. This "artworld" novel by
>YBA curator Moynihan which is more notable for its full colour, limited
>edition cover designed by Hirst which reproduces in the form of minatures
>in a fantastic imaginary board game, many of the best known works by Hirst,
>Emin, Lucas, Quinn, as well as Koons and Collishaw. The full colour offset
>lithograph dust jacket (protected in plastic) is signed in ink by Hirst and
>the book numbered and signed internally by the author. "You are brillaint
>in everyone else's turn except your own. Miss a turn." Fine estate. Out of
>print and now scarce.
>
>475 uk pounds
>
>
>
>Holzer, Jenny
>Handsigned wooden postcard with artist-extended "Truism"
>14.8 x 10.5 cm offset litho wooden postcard which has been hand signed
>verso by the artist. Recto Holzer has extended the printed Truism ("Protect
>me from what I want") by adding the words - "Men don't protect you
>anymore." in felt tipped pen, thus altering the meaning from one of desire
>to one of apprehension. Thus, assumed, unique.
>
>275 uk pounds
>
>
>
>Hugnet, Georges.
>PLEINS ET DELIES. Souvenirs et Temoignages 1926-1972.
>Paris: Guy Authier, 1972.
>8vo. 426pp. 32 b/w photo-documents. Original wrappers. First trade edition
>of Hugnet's informative insider's history of Surrealist and para-Surrealist
>activities and manifestations. Of particular value for its detailed
>descriptions of the various international exhibitions of the 1930's, of
>which Hugnet was a primary animator. A close to fine example of this great
>resource.
>
>75 uk pounds
>
>
>Johnson, Ray
>Untitled New York Correspondance (sic) School mailing
>New York: s.p., April 301968
>10.5 x 24.2cm recycled "Time Magazine" envelope content of two typical
>Johnson mail art items - an appropriated, torn 10 x 22.4cm Skull and Keys
>b/w letterhead with overwritten text "Send to Karl Wirsumg" by Johnson and
>drawn rabbit logo. The officer's name in the Society has been replaced by
>judicious tearing and rubber stamping by "Ray Johnsong". Additional is a
>torn and modified Museum of Modern Art compliments slip - with a hand
>cut-out artist's palette shape and drawn rabbit. The letterhead has been
>overprinted with the title "Santa's Dandruff" and has Johnson's mailing
>address and signature. The bunny is stamped: "This is not a bunny". A
>mailed, stamped example of Johnson's humour - the envelope not only has the
>Roosevelt stamp arranged deliberately to examine the addresee's name ("Phil
>Weidman") but the date and time of the next New York Correspondance (sic)
>School meeting is scrawled on the cover. Images on request.
>
>150 uk pounds
>
>
>Ibid.
>Untitled and unmailed New York Correspondance (sic) School item
>New York: s.p., circa April1968
>10 x 19cm addressed and stamped, but never-mailed, envelope content of an
>appropriated, folded 22.8 x 10 cm newpaper cutting of an amusing cartoon
>involving a duck and a diaper which has been dedicated in red felt pen by
>Johnson "To Weidman please {drawn rabbit symbol}". Images on request.
>
>85 uk pounds
>
>
>
>(Johnson, Ray)
>The Floating Bear #36
>New York: Diane di Prima, 1969
>28.2 x 21.5cm 20pp plus 1pp paper cover, stapled mimeographed poetry
>magazine. Cover is an "untitled" lithograph by Ray Johnson of a floating
>bear (presumably to be cut-out of the page). Includes poems by: Larry
>Fagin, Max Ernst, Michael Brownstein, Anne Waldman, Tom Clark, Clark
>Coolidge, Bill Berkson, Ron Padgett, David Shapiro, and others. Guest
>editor on this issue was Bill Berkson. Slight fold line on top left but
>otherwise very good copy of this fragile journal. The Floating Bear was the
>invention of di Prima who edited it together with Amiri Baraka. di Prima
>was perhaps the foremost woman participating in the Beat Movement and later
>was heavily invoved with Timothy Leary and still later, the Diggers.
>
>offered together with
>
>Johnson, Ray
>New York Correspondance (sic) School Invitation Card
>New York: s.p., circa1968
>18.7 x 13.5 cm 1pp offset lithographed black and white invitation card to a
>NYCS meeting in Sacramento State Art Gallery on March 26th. Reproduced is a
>collage by Johnson of two montaged press cuttings about India (one in
>HIndi) and the instruction to "stick finger through here" where presumably
>a hole exists in the original piece.
>
>offered together with
>
>a 2pp A4 folded photocopied article on Johnson from New York Magazine March
>2 1970.
>
>35 uk pounds
>
>
>
>Khlebnikov, Victor.
>ZAPISNAY KNIZHKA KHLEBNOKOVA. Sobral i snabdil primecanijami A. Kruchenykh.
>Moscow: I.V.S.P., 1925.
>Small 8vo. 36pp. Frontispiece b/w photo-portrait of Khlebnikov. Original
>cream wrappers with a typo-pictorial Constructivist design by V.
>Kalugina-Klutsis. First edition. Composed of a selection of the Futurist
>poet and theorist's last texts, including fragments from his lectures,
>poems and notes. Issued in his memory (Khlebnikov died of malnutrition in
>June of 1922 at 37) by the Moscow Association of Futurists under the
>direction of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Osip Brik, as collected and annotated
>by Alexi Kruchenykh and with a memorial article by Tatjana Vecorka as
>postface. Khlebnikov in his nomadic final years was increasingly obsessed
>with a systematic search for —the central number that would connect all
>phenomena'. Issued in a stated edition of 2000 copies. Opaque stain at
>free-flyleaf, rear wrapper with minor illegible notation, else a very good
>copy of this rare work.
>
>900 uk pounds
>
>
>Kippenberger, Martin
>241 BILDTITEL ZUM AUSLEIHEN
>Koln: Walther Konig, 1986
>18 x 11cm, 46pp plus printed card wrappers. Two b/w illustrations by the
>artist. Kippenberger translated t-shirts "in Rio jail" into loose, inspired
>and typically off-beat German equivalents. It also includes "Martin
>Boorman's" telephone number (now sadly disconnected) where the artist
>bought a South American garage jsut to be able to install MB's answafone.
>One of only 500 numbered copies published - but this one has had its number
>missed out. Fine estate.
>
>45 uk pounds
>
>
>Kippenberger, Martin
>MARTIN KIPPENBERGER: COLLAGES 1989
>New York: David Nolan Gallery, 1989
>Small 4to. exhibition Catalog which also served as an artist designed
>poster for the exhibition as one 53.5 x 96.5cm sheet which is staple bound
>inside the photographically illustrated wrappers is folded down to a small
>size as issued. Fine example, albeit some light handling damage to the
>wrapper spine. Increasingly scarce.
>
>95 uk pounds
>
>
>Kippenberger, Martin
>HAND SIGNED INVITATION CARD
>Berlin: Wewerka & Weiss Galerie, 1991
>14.8 x 10.5 cm, offset invitation card with bevelled edges. The image on
>the card is a of black woman giving the viewer "the bird". Rudely
>initialled across the front and dated by the sadly departed German artist
>in felt tip.
>
>40 uk pounds
>
>
>Kippenberger, Martin
>NO DRAWING NO CRY
>Koln: Walther Konig, 2000
>30.2 x 21.4 x 4cm, unpaginated plus card wrappers. Kippenberger previous
>publications "Hotel-Hotel" and "Hotel-Hotel- Hotel" reproduced his drawings
>on hotel stationary. Prior to his death Kippenberger planned this book -
>reproductions of the hotel stationary alone without drawings; presumably
>because he liked the punning Bob Marley title amongst other motives. This
>is one of 750 numbered copies. Fine estate.
>
>60 uk pounds
>
>
>
>—THE BOGEYMAN OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE'
>
>
>Kruchenykh, Alexi.
>ZAUMNYI LAZYK U SEFULLNOI V., IVANOVA, LEONOVA, BABELLIA, VESELOGIO I DR.
>Moscow: V.S.P., 1925.
>Small 8vo. 59 (+5)pp. Two textual vignettes by V. Kalugina-Klutsis.
>Wrappers with a woodcut design in red and black (also) by Kalugina-Klutsis.
>First edition of this extraordinary theoretical excursion by one of the
>founding voices of Russian Futurism. Here, Kruchenykh endeavors to prove
>that the successes of many of the most popular Russian writers of the 20's
>(Ivanov, Leonov, Babel, et al) has been due to their conscious or
>unconscious implementation of 'zaum'; Kruchenykh's signature —transrational
>language' method. One of a stated issue of 3000 copies. Bibliographic list
>of the author's works (1912-24) at end. Slight wear and chipping to
>extremities of the fragile wrappers designed by Kalugina-Klutsis, else an
>exceptionally very good example of this rare and intriguing work.
>
>1,150 uk pounds
>
>
>Lecomte, Marcel.
>LE COEUR ET LA MAIN. Avec un dessin de Jane Graverol.
>Brussels: Les Levres Nues (Le Fait Accompli, No.5), 1968.
>20 x 30cm Composed of four folded signatures comprising 8pp. Self-wrappers
>with pictorial design by Jane Graverol. First edition thus of this
>selection of poems and short prose texts by Lecomte, dating from the
>formative period of Belgian Surrealist activity (1925-28). One of a total
>edition of 280 numbered examples (this copy unnumbered). Issued in Marcel
>Marien's 'Le Fait Accompli' documentation series. A fine example.
>
>50 uk pounds
>
>
>Leiris, Michel.
>EPAVES. Precede de conception et realite chez Raymond Roussel.
>Paris: Pauvert, 1972.
>8vo. 294pp. Frontispiece b/w photo-portrait of the author. Printed
>wrappers. First edition of this essaic work by the one-time Surrealist,
>co-founder of the 'College de Sociologie' (with Bataille and Caillois) and
>ethnographer. Inclusive of an excellent evaluation of Raymond Roussel's
>generative techniques. Leiris was a relative of Roussel's, and as a child
>keenly observed the eccentric author's outlandish style of life first hand.
>Slight wear to spine, else a very good example.
>
>50 uk pounds
>
>
>Lewitt, Sol
>Signed exhibition poster
>Bremen: Neues Museum Weserburg , 1994
>84 x 31.5 cm cm offset color lithograph, hand signed by Lewitt. Fine
>estate. Image on request.
>
>125 uk pounds
>
>
>
>(Rare Handsigned print)
>Lichtenstein, Roy
>WHAAM!
>Tate Gallery London 1975
>Two piece colour offset lithograph, each 64 x 75 cm, with the second panel
>signed by the artist. Perhaps one of Lichtenstein's best known images of a
>dogfight. Fine estate. Provenance and image available on request.
>
>1,100 uk pounds
>
>
>
>(Magritte, Rene).
>LA CARTE D'APRES NATURE. Numero Special: 62 responses a la question: 'La
>pensee nous eclaire-+-elle, et nos actes, avec la meme indifference que le
>soleil ou quel est notre espoir et quelle est sa valeur?'.
>Brussels: self-published, June 1954.
>13.6 x 21.3cm. 24pp. B/w textual images. Original stapled wrappers. A
>special number of this Belgian Surrealist journal founded and directed by
>Rene Magritte. According to Jean Paulhan: 'La Carte d'Apres Nature', was
>not only 'the smallest magazine in the world' (a reference to issues 1-7,
>which were in postcard format), but are to be regarded as integrally a work
>by Magritte. Pictorial and text contributions by: Paul Colinet, Theodore
>Koenig, Magritte, Joseph Noiret, Gabriel Piqueray, Louis Scutenaire, et.
>al. Some minor wear to wrappers, else a very good example of this illusive
>item.
>
>165 uk pounds
>
>
>
>(Magritte, Rene).
>LA CARTE D'APRES NATURE. No. 8. Edited by Rene Magritte.
>Brussels: self-published, Jan. 1955.
>10.9 x 15cm. 8pp. B/w textual images. Original stapled wrappers. Single
>number (of 10 issued) of this ephemeral post-War Surrealist journal, as
>edited and published by Rene Magritte. Testual and pictorial contributions
>by Achille Chavee, Paul Colinet, Marcel Lecomte, Magritte, E.L.T. Mesens,
>Marcel Piqueray, Louis Scutenaire, et. al. Some minor wear to wrappers,
>else a very good example. Scarce.
>
>130 uk pounds
>
>
>(Mail Art)
>Held, John Jnr.
>Mail Art: An Annotated Bibliography
>Dallas: s.p. 1991
>22.4 x 14.5 cm, 456pp plus embossed boards. A vast survey of literally
>thousands of essays, magazine and newspaper articles and books relating to
>the mail art phenomena collated by Held. A valuable resource for all
>interested in this five decade phenomena.
>
>25 uk pounds
>
>
>
>Hockney, David
>Discord Merely magnifies, 7 (from the Blue Guitar Suite)
>NY: Petersberg Press, 1976 - 1977
>46 x 53 cm (image - 34.5 x 42.5cm) etching on Inveresk, mould-made paper.
>Signed and numbered from an edition of 200 plus 35 proof copies. The Blue
>Guitar suite is perhaps the best of later Hockney - a homage to Picasso and
>cubism while retaining much of the loose line, and draughtsmanship, of the
>early pop prints: a style Hockney has more or less repudiated as he
>increasingly looks to the Old Masters for inspiration. Image on request.
>Ref: # 184 "David Hockney Prints 1954 - 1995". Fine estate.
>
>2,750 uk pounds
>
>
>
>Mauss, Marcel.
>FRAGMENTS D'UN PLAN DE SOCIOLOGIE GENERALE DESCRIPTIVE.
>Paris: Felix Alcan, 1934.
>8vo. 268pp. Original wrappers. First edition of this work by the pioneering
>social anthropologist. Mauss' ethnographic concepts (re. 'the sacred')
>influenced and soon thereafter paralleled the path taken by the Georges
>Bataille and Michel Leiris directed group surrounding the journal
>'Documents'. A fine, mainly unopened example of this scarce title.
>
>145 uk pounds
>
>
>
>More, Marcel.
>LA FOUDRE DE DIEU.
>Paris: N.R.F., 1969.
>8vo. 219pp. Printed wrappers. First book edition. Composed of the author's
>collected articles (1945-55), as originally published in his vanguard
>philosophical revue 'Dieu Vivant'. More was a fellow intellectual traveler
>within Bataille's 'Documents' circle throughout the 1930's, and acted as a
>go-between on behalf of Bataille and his ill-fated romantic companion, the
>author Laure (Colette Peignot), especially during the period of her last
>illness (fall/winter, 1938). A close to fine example.
>
>75 uk pounds
>
>
>Oldenburg, Claes
>GEOMETRIC MOUSE PYRAMID AS AN IMAGE OF THE ELECTORAL SYSTEM, DOUBLED.
>a.k.a. Scales of the Geometric Mouse, Doubled.
>New York: Multiples, 1976
>89 x 66cm three colour lithograph on cream Arches cover paper. Signed and
>numbered from an edition of 50 plus proofs. An initial donation by
>Oldenburg to Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign; the Democratic Party's
>National Committee declined the offer. Mickey Mouse runs the country above
>other mini mice. Surely things have changed! Image on request. Fine estate.
>
>
>1,750 uk pounds
>
>
>
>Oldenburg, Claes
>VOTING BUTTON IN A LANDSCAPE
>Washington D.C.: Artists for Mondale, 1984
>76 x 58.5cm six colour screenprint on white Essex Rag paper. Signed and
>numbered from an edition of 150 plus proofs. Oldenburg's offer to Mondale's
>presidential campaign, was treated with more respect than his previous
>offer and raised significant sums for the doomed campaign. A large pin
>badge urging people to vote dominates the (political?) landscape. Image on
>request. Fine estate.
>
>900 uk pounds
