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THE FIRST EVER MAIL ART EXHIBITION
(Johnson, Ray) THE LAST CORRESPONDENCE SHOW ART DEPT. Sacramento: California State University, n.d. (1969) A group of publicity materials for this very first mail art exhibition. As early as 1968 Johnson wanted to organised a public show of mail art relating to the New York Correspondance School but did not know how to go about arranging such a thing and sadly his gallery was not interested in aiding the project since his own work had not sold all that well up to then. When Johnson's friend and participant in the New York Correspondance School Joseph Raffael (aka Joseph Raffaelle), moved to Sacramento, California, to assume a position at the State University, Johnson was afforded the opportunity to put his plan into practice and "The Last Correspondance Show" was held from April 7-30, 1969 at the Art Gallery of California State University. This was the very first public manifestation of correspondence art and doubly important because of Johnson's central role. Here we offer almost all of the relevant publicity material for that show (only a badge issued by Johnson is missing) which incorporate a Ray Johnson design of a double-sided snake and a typographic design for the show's title and information. The group consists of: FARMER'S SPECIAL Exhibition poster - 28 x 21.5cm approx., printed red and black on white and die cut to the shape of a butcher's shop or grocer's arrowed publicity material. ADDED: SEND ALL CORRESPONDENCE BY APRIL 17TH 21.6 x 28cm, 1pp b/w invitation to participants for the show with a large Johnson design of 6 snakes plus text. Slightly browned top left. ADDED: "MARIE-FRANCE MARIAGES" (sic) Invitation card for the show printed black on dark grey card - folded to 4pp to allow mailing. Printed 1 side only. Sent through mail to Robin Crozier the Fluxus artist - with attached address label. The text is a series of spoof marriage announcements in French as if taken from pages in a classified newspaper advert. ADDED: THE LAST CORRESPONDENCE SHOW Small poster 28 x 21.5cm again with a b/w design by Johnson - 32 snakes here. (Most probably a single snake was drawn and the reproduction made mechanically.) Folded with a tiny nick on the top of the poster.
600 uk pounds for the group.
Jones, Joe MUSIC MACHINE XYLOPHONE. UNIQUE DRAWING. c. 1979 26.4 x 40cm b/w lithograph with a reproduction of a plan for a self-playing xylophone which has been drawn in pencil and ink on transparent drafting paper. The drawing was used for an edition published by Hundertmark. ADDED: Jones, Joe MUSIC MACHINE XYLOPHONE Koln: edition Hundertmark, c. 1980 26.4 x 40cm b/w lithograph with a reproduction of the drawing. Fine.
TOGETHER 1,500 uk pounds
WITH AN ORIGINAL COVER LITHOGRAPH BY JORN
(Jorn, Asgar) ABSTRAKT KUNST (I DANMARK) Kopenhagen: J. Chrsorensen & Co., n.d. (1946) 24 x 17.5cm, 20pp plus pictorial card covers with an original lithograph in green and blue by Jorn. A post war exhibition catalogue for this show of Danish abstract artists who evolved out of the Linen group (which was initially influenced by surrealism but later moved towards a more expressionist style). Jorn is noted as displaying 9 works here with detailed descriptions) and internally there is 1 b/w reproduction of a work. In fewer than 3 years Jorn would move towards the formation of the Movement for An Imaginiste Bauhaus in Italy that eventually led to the International Situationists. A near fine copy.
100 uk pounds
Judd, Donald COMPLETE WRITINGS 1975 - 1986. Eindhoven: Van Abbemuseum, 1987 20 x 12.5cm, 140pp plus caovers. The second volume of collected writings (after the Halifax collection up to 1975) by Judd - who is never without significant opinions on the problems of modern art and minimalism. An interesting read and somewhat scarce. Near fine although there is a discrete former sellerıs label attached internally to the inside cover.
165 uk pounds
Kantor, Tadeusz UMARLA KLASA/ THE DEAD CLASS RYSUNKI DRAWINGS Warsaw: Teatr Cricot 2, 1976 30.5 x 21.5cm printed folder content of 9 30 x 21cm 1pp reproductions of charcoal and graphite drawings by Kantor (all printed offset in duotone) which were the designs for his title theatre performance piece. The Dead Class was the very first manifestation of his "Theatre of Death." - which marked the artist's last phase of work where all of the disciplines (plastic and non-plastic) were used together on stage and even the audience invited to take roles to create a momento mori. Most Teatr Cricot books and works are very scarce but this publication was privately printed and in a small limitation. Very good with a small amount of bumping on folder edges. Very hard to find.
225 uk pounds
(Kantor, Tadeusz) PARASOL. October 1972 Edinburgh: Demarco Gallery, 1972 19 x 9.5cm, which opens to a 2pp sheet of 38 x 38cm. An important single issue of this gallery publication that has lengthy texts and photographs of the Polish contribution to the 1972 Edinburgh festival under the banner of "Atelier 72". Most important is the many references to and images of Kantor's Cricot Theatre's performance of "The Water Hen" including a large b/w image of the Kantor performance on the cover. Another event noted is the release and exhibition of the Peter Blake's Wolverhampton Wanderer exhibition which interestingly was attended by representatives of Celtic, Hearts, Hibs and Rangers football (soccer) clubs. There are also photographs of Sean Connery as a younger man - long before he turned his hand to terrible Irish accents (an Oscar for that!) and hard-to-believe geriatric heroics. Fine and scarce.
75 uk pounds
Kiki. (ne. Alice Prin). LES SOUVENIRS DE KIKI. Preface de Foujita. Six illustrations et reproductions de vingt tableaux de lıauteur, dix photographies de Man Ray. Paris: Henri Broca, 1929. 18 x 22.5cm. 174pp. B/w portraits of the author by Kisling, Foujita, Per Krohg, Hermine David, et. al. Ten photographs by Man Ray. Wrappers with tipped-on pictorial design. First edition of these clipped illustrated memoirs by Montparnesseıs most famous model, "chanteuse informale", star of Man Rayıs "LıEtoile de Mer", and many wild Parisian nights (and supposedly, probably untruthfully, a women with naturally no pubic hair). A very good example of this very desirable and highly entertaining work.
595 uk pounds
Kippenberger, Martin SEHR GUT/VERY GOOD Berlin, s.p. (Kippenberger) , 1979. 43 x 31cm, 44pp self-cover. Tabloid artists' book designed by Kippenberger with contributions from Tom Otterness, Robin Winters, C. Ahearn, C. Perlman, E. Mitchell, D. Cortez, J. Lurie, Hans Peter Feldmann , Lydia Lunch, Kippenberger, Meuser, Tabea Blumenschein, Kombinat Leder, SO 36, Glen Branca, amongst others. One of around 500 copies distributed. This copy folded as issued but browned and with the outerwrapper repaired at some point in the past with scotch tape but with no paper loss. Rare in any condition. Kippenberger Books Nr 3.
400 uk pounds
Kippenberger, Martin with Albert Oehlen, and Rudiger Car CALMA-TRIO / JAZZ ZUM FIXSEN Frankfurt: Galerie Grässlin-Erhardt, 1986. 15 x 9.4cm, 52pp plus covers. Artistıs book with reproductions of minimalist drawings and applied text. The "Calma-Trio" of the title were the three artists and the subtitle means "Jazz to shoot up to". The book was handed out to all members of the audience of a Calma-Trio gig in 1987 at the Neuschwanstein disco in Koln. Scarce despite around 1,000 books being printed. Very good. Kippenberger Books Nr 43.
145 uk pounds
Kippenberger, Martin and Oehlen, Albert OBRAS RECIENTES Madrid: Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, 1989. 26 x 19cm, 50 pp plus pictorial card covers. Exhibition catalogue with 41 color + b+w-plates of works and installations. As often this was a design by Kippenberger parodying another design here the Inaugural Exhibition of Galerie Borgman in Cologne. Fine. ippenberger Bucher Nr 65.
175 uk pounds
Kippenberger, Martin DIE FAHRT INS FREILUIFT MUSEUM. EUROBUMMEL TEIL 11 Koln: Galerie Kacprzak, 1989 21 x 14.6cm, 28 pp. plus pictorial card covers. Artistıs book designed by Kippenberger with 33 b/w photos of a bus trip taken with the artist to a curated show that he had organised along with the other artists of from the same gallery. One of only 300 copies published. Fine. Very scarce. Kippenberger Bucher nr 68
295 uk pounds
Kippenberger, Martin HEAVY BURSCHI Koln: Kunstverein Koeln, 1991. 25 x 21cm, 60 pp. plus card covers and printed silvermetallic dustjacket. Fullpage color plates throughout of 51 color photographs of paintings painted to Kippenberger's instructions by an assistant. The originals were destroyed once they had been photographed and then presented in the exhibition as debris in a handmade skip. Fine. Kippenberger Bucher Nr 102.
100 uk pounds
Kippenberger, Martin MENSCH GEHT MIR EIN LICHT AUF. Munich: Kunstraum Daxer. 1992 21 x 30 cm, 42pp plus pictorial covers. Exhibition catalogue which displayed Kippenberger's Lamp sculptures for the first time. Very good. Kippenberger Bucher Nr 108.
165 uk pounds
Kippenberger, Martin MARTIN KIPPENBERGER PRINTS Frankfurt: Neils Borsch Jensen, 1986. 21 x 15cm, Two 16pp booklets bound in a single cover. A publication to promote two groups of etchings made by Kippenberger at the end of this life. Really two books in one. Fine in original plastic bag as issued. Strangely somewhat difficult to find given the edition size and recent date. Kippenberger Books Nr 147.
125 uk pounds
Knizak, Milan UNTITLED. UNIQUE COLLAGE. 1963 - 1979 30 x 21cm photogrphic collage with paint, tape and coloured (painted) cork. The work is an earlier collage from 1963 which Knizak has reworked and completed in 1979. The main image is a nude photograph of the upper torso and face of Maria (Milan's wife) with additions. Image on request.
395 uk pounds
Knoebel, W. PROJEKTION 4/1 - 11, 5/1 - 11 Amsterdam: Stedlijk Museum, 1972 27 x 21cm, 24pp artist's book in the form of an exhibition catalogue. Knoebel's projections of white on black soundwaves are reproduced on every page with no text as displayed in the show. The wrappers look rubbed but much of that is the design, otherwise very good.
85 uk pounds
Knoebel, Imi IMI KNOEBEL Monchengladbach: Monchengladbach Stadtiches Museum, 1984 21 x 26.7cm, unpaginated (84pp approx) artist's book in the form of an exhibition catalogue. Knoebel's b/w photogrpahs are reproduced on every page in glossy b/w. Very good. One of 500 numbered copies.
75 uk pounds
Kosuth, Joseph UNTITLED (INSURANCE - ART AS IDEA AS IDEA). Unique mail art work. 1968. 32 x 25cm b/w 1pp appropriated duplicated insurance form (as issued) from an insurance underwriter which insures "Anna Worth" against any accident during an airplane flight. Signed by Kosuth (both in the original duplicate and in pen over the signature). Kosuth has added the text that the work is only "valid as art if deemed worthless and useless in a safe trip" ie if the flight is taken without incident then the work becomes valid as an artwork but should a claim against the policy be made then the work is no longer an artwork. Offered together with the neatly opened 10.5cm x 24cm envelope which is both dated and addressed and has been franked (1969) by the sending of the work via the mail. The two items are offered in a frame (conservationally mounted) and in near fine condition (although the policy has been folded for sending). Unique thus and a very rare mail art piece by Kosuth.
3, 750 uk pounds
Lennon, John LENNON TOURS - A VISIT THROUGH STAGE DOOR TO VISIT GLORIA SWANSON NYC: Fluxus (Maciunas), n.d. (1970) 2.8 x 7.8cm 1pp b/w offset lithograph card (printed recto only) which was part of the series of Fluxus LENNON TOURS - here to visit Gloria Swanson during her NYC performance without her knowledge. Fine.
100 uk pounds
Lennon, John LENNON TOURS - TOUR TO BETTY ROLLINS LEGS PANORAMA NYC: Fluxus (Maciunas), n.d. (1970) 2.8 x 7.8cm 1pp b/w offset lithograph card (printed recto only) which was part of the series of Fluxus LENNON TOURS . Fine.
100 uk pounds
Lennon, John LENNON TOURS - 15 HOUR WALKING TOUR AROUND MANHATTAN ISLAND NY NYC: Fluxus (Maciunas), n.d. (1970) 2.8 x 7.8cm 1pp b/w offset lithograph card (printed recto only) which was part of the series of Fluxus LENNON TOURS . Fine.
100 uk pounds
Lennon, John LENNON TOURS - FUTURE TRIP TO THE MOON NYC: Fluxus (Maciunas), n.d. (1970) 2.8 x 7.8cm 1pp b/w offset lithograph card (printed recto only) which was part of the series of Fluxus LENNON TOURS . Fine.
100 uk pounds
Long, Richard NEANDERTHAL LINE WHITE WATER CUIRCLE Dusseldorf: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 1994 21 x 27.7cm, 8pp b/w exhibition catalogue displaying 7 works by Long and text in German and English. Fine although remants of old price sticker on back cover.
10 uk pounds
Maciunas, George. FLUXUS STATIONERY (NAKED WOMAN - TORSO IN FUR COAT) New York: Fluxus/Wooster Publications, 1968. 20 x 22.5cm b/w offset sheet printed with an image of a nude woman. This was the design that Maciunas intended to be used in conjunction with an envelope displaying a fur overcoat (thus clothing the woman by the act of putting the sheet in the envelope). Reproduction of a photograph by Peter Moore. The most difficult of the Fluxus Stationary items to find. Fine. Silverman Nr 286.
125 uk pounds
Maciunas, George and Nam June Paik FLUXFEST AT HIPPODROME New York: Fluxus, early 1960s. 28 x 21.5cm b/yellow 1pp offset sheet printed with an appropriated and adapted image of a fair ground act (a man catching a cannonball). The event is promoting the Fluxfest with Paik and Fluxsonata 4 at 80 Wooster Street. Fine. Scarce.
275 uk pounds
Maciunas, George FLUXFEST PRESENTS 12! BIG NAMES New York: Fluxus, early 1960s. 28 x 21.5cm b/yellow 1pp offset sheet printed with an appropriated picture of a strongman flexing (fluxing?) his muscles. The event claimed in advance the participation of Acconci, Beuys, Philip Glass and Kaprow, Levine, Manzoni, Nauman, Ono, Snow, Rinke, Vostell and Warhol. - all at 80 Wooster Street. Fine. Scarce.
275 uk pounds
Maciunas, George LENNY BRUCE AT THE VILLAGE THEATRE 2 AV & 6ST New York: Vilalge Theatre, 1967 28 x 21.5cm b/w 1pp offset sheet printed with an photo collage by Maciunas displaying an image of Lenny Bruce holding a review of his show in his mouth. Fine. Scarce.
265 uk pounds
Manzoni, Piero PIERO MANZONI 1933 - 1963 Eindhoven, Van Abbemuseum, n.d. (1964) 26,5 x 24 cm, 20pp plus soft boards covered with fake fur - exhibition catalogue which was published immediately after the early and unexpected death of the artist (due to alcoholism) with texts in Italian and Dutch and 24 b/w illustrations, a biography by Henk Peeters, a bibliography as well as a catalogue describing 81 items. Extremely rare in this edition since they ran out of FAKE fur to cover the book and used a less attractive material on the remaining copies of the book.. General design executed by Jan van Toorn after Manzoni. Fine.
425 uk pounds
Merz, Mario MARIO MERZ Amsterdam: Antiquaatiat Parade, 1980 34 x 38 x 10 cm deluxe exhibition catalogue /multiple for the Art Povera/conceptualists exhibition - namely a red moulded plastic suitcase content of a see-through printed partition which displays a loose bundle of straw beneath. The text notes other publications available - numbered from an edition of 100. The suitcase was issued in both red and yellow versions - this is one of the latter. Fine.
195 uk pounds
Nash, Magnus, Thorsen SITUATIONISTER I KONSTEN Sweden: Bauhaus Situationiste, 1966 24.5 x21.2cm, 110pp (unpaginated) plus wrappers and pictorial dustjacket. First edition of this situationist artist book based on collaborations by Magnus, Nash, Prem, Strid and Thorsen. The break with the Situationist International allowed a greater freedom of expression of artworks (since the split was in part over the role of artists as revolutionaries) and this book is a complex production printed on different papers and using different techniques including silkscreen and lithography. Very good.
100 uk pounds
Paolozzi, Eduardo ROUND THE WORLD London: Editions Alecto, 1967 38 x 25.4cm, original screenprint from the "Moonstrips Empire News" portfolio. The image is b/w of a mysterious hand playing chess with various engineering items and some text regarding the then current arms race entitled "war games" Publisher's mark & number (485) & printer's mark on verso. Fine condition. Vintage Paolozzi.
145 uk pounds
VIGILANCE OF DESIRE
Phases/Surrealism WORLD SURREALIST MOVEMENT 9WITH THE PARTICIAPATION OF THE PHASES MOVEMENT) Illinois: Gallery Black Swan, 1976 60 x 51cm, red and black exhibition poster advertising the last throws of the surrealist movement as kept alive by the French Phases Movement. Not dying but fading away. Folded.
25 uk pounds
Richter, Gerhard INVITATION CARD FOR STADTE Berlin: Galerie Rene Block, 1969 15 x 10cm, 2pp invitation card with verso a b/w reproduction of a Richter expressionist work on canvas which was based on a newspaper photograph of a city scene . Verso gallery details. Early Richter ephemera. Fine.
75 uk pounds
Roth, Dieter IDIOTGRAMME. UNIQUE WORK ON PAPER. 1962. 15 x 10cm printed paper (a series of commas in a grid) which an ambiguous hand drawn image is it an heart or another comma ? - has been drawn around several of the spaced out printed elements. Initialled bottom right and dated in pencil.
375 uk pounds
Roth, Dieter HORCHEN n.p., n.p., 1973 42 x 25x16.5 plaster, paper/card and painted multiple. The opened out board covers of a book,, opened out with the inner pages removed and two plaster objects glued on both sides of the cover). The work was then painted in red on one side and the torus object on the unpainted side painted red also. Signed and numbered underneath from an edition of 100.
1,750 uk pounds
Sandberg, Max Bill, Le Courbosier OPEN OOG, avantgarde cahier voor visuele vormgeving. Nrs 1 and 2 (2 = all) Rotterdam, Brusse, 1946. A complete run in two volumes (uniformly 26 x 19cm, 32pp plus original pictorial covers) of this important decidedly post-war, short-lived Dutch/international avant garde journal which was edited by Sandberg, Kloos, Rietveld, Stam, Brusse (vol 1) and Sandberg, Jaffe, Kloos, Rietveld, Stam, Brusse (volume 2). The title translates as Open Eye. Volume one contains texts and original contributions by Braque (a b/w lithograph), Stam , Brusse, Rietveld, Kloos, Max Bill (concrete works) and le Corbusier (reproductions of designs for chairs and architecture. Volume 2 has two lithographs by le Corbusier and a double page blueprint for housing sizes. Other works are by Max Bill and Braque (original cover illustration). Texts in both volumes are in English, Dutch and French. A third volume was planned but never appeared. The group strongly opposed the 'nuclear' group of post-war architects and it was this opposition to a rival perspective that seems to have motivated the publications. Both in very good+ condition. A somewhat scarce publication.
400 uk pounds for both volumes together
Schmit, Tomas COMPOSITION FOR 9.05 P.M. NYC: s.p. (Schmit), n.d. (c. 1963) 6.4 x 8.2cm, 1pp small leaflet with an event text printed on it for a work by Schmit. The text reads "Tomas Schmit/Composition for 9.03p.m./ it is/was/will be * 9.03o'clock p.m./Please strike our words not applicable!)". This copy has been used in the action and has two words crossed out - we understand by the artist - in red ink. To the best of our knowledge not in Silverman.
175 uk pounds
Shiomi, Chieko WATERMUSIC n.p.: s.p., n.d. (1970s) 22 x 18cm transparent plastic bag containing a single glass marble and a Maciunas designed label with the text: "Give the water still form/2. let the water loose it's still form" (sic). Signed in felt-tip pen by Shiomi bottom right on the plastic bag. Limitation or uniqueness not known. Fine. Not in Silverman.
345 uk pounds
Taeuber-Arp, Sophie PLASTIQUE. Revue Internationale, consacree aux oeuvres davant-garde des arts plastiques et litteraires. No. 2 (Dimensionisme issue). Edited by Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Meudon/Paris: Springt, 1937. Small 4to. 24pp. B/w illustrations after works by Sophie Taeuber & Hans Arp, Max Bill, Cesar Domela, Marcel Duchamp, Clara Friedrich, Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, Francis Picabia, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, et.al. + stills from films by Viking Eggeling & Hans Richter. Original wrappers. The second number of this vanguard revue as edited and published by Sophie Taeuber-Arp. This, Dimensionisme issue serves as a manifest-statement of the editors efforts toward a reconciliation of abstract-concrete and Dadaist-constructivist tendencies. Tri-lingual (French, German & English) texts by Gabriele Buffet, Hans Richter & Charles Sirato. Some light sunning to edges of wrappers, else a very good+ example. Scarce.
325 uk pounds
Taeuber-Arp, Sophie PLASTIQUE. Revue Internationale, consacree aux oeuvres d'avant-garde des arts plastiques et litteraires. No. 4. Edited by Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Meudon/Paris: 1939. 24 x 16cm, 24pp. original typographic wrappers. The penultimate issue of this vangard review as edited by Sophie Tauber_Arp which was primarily devoted to the collectively generated Surrealist novella: 'L'homme qui a perdu son Squelette' by Hans Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Paul Eluard, Georges Hugnet, Henri Pastoreau and Giselle Prassinos. Other text and pictorial contributions from Hugnet, Ernst, Hausmann, Schwitters, et.al. and reproductions from Jandinsky, Ernst Schwitters, Hausmann, Levesque, Bjerke_Petersen, Arp and Kurt Schwitters A fine example of this extremely desirable issue.
325 uk pounds
Taeuber-Arp, Sophie PLASTIQUE. Revue Internationale, consacree aux oeuvres d'avant-garde des arts plastiques et litteraires. No. 5. Edited by Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Meudon/Paris: 1939. 24 x 16cm, 24pp. original typographic wrappers. The final issue of this vangard review as edited by Sophie Tauber-Arp which was concludes the collectively generated Surrealist novella: 'L'homme qui a perdu son Squelette' by Hans Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Paul Eluard, Georges Hugnet and Giselle Prassinos to whom Max Ernst, Leonara Carrington also joined the writing group. Other text and pictorial contributions from Hausmann, Kallai, Schmidt and Vantongerloo and reproductions from max Bill, Walter Bodmer, Welti, Leuppi, Magnelli, Sopie Taeuber-Arp, Vantongerloo, Vordemberge-Gildewart and Raoul Hausmann. A fine example of this extremely desirable issue.
325 uk pounds
ONE OF ONLY 50 COPIES
Taeuber-Arp, Sophie LES DERNIERS 9 DESSINS DE SOPHIE TAEUBER-ARP Zurich: Allianz-Verlag, 1943 19.5 x 19.5cm, 22pp plus boards. A newly posthumous publication but an important monograph nonetheless with a preface by Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia displaying the title works. This is one of only 50 numbered copies on large paper followed by 200 copies on velin. Very good+ in original tissue DJ with very slight yellowing on endpapers. Very scarce.
1,250 uk pounds
Tuttle, Richard FOLDED SPACE University Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive/Lime Stone Press, 1993 49 x 27,5 cm approx. Artistıs multiple, colour lithograph and collage which opens out into an elaborate construction. In original plastic bag with b/w insert as issued. One of 200 numbered, dated & signed copies on the label. Also numbered on the insert and initialled and numbered on the multiple. Hard to find. Fine.
650 uk pounds
Tzara, Tristan LE SURREALISME ET LıAPRES-GUERRE Paris: Editions Nagel, 1948 19 x 12cm, 84pp. Original printed wrappers. First edition of this documentation of Tzara's speech to a conference held at the Sorbonne in April of 1947 discussing how surrealism had developed during and immediately after the war (with a schism in the ranks by then apparent). Breton had already disassociated himself from Tzara many years before and here Tzara returns the compliment. An uncut if a little browned example.
95 uk pounds
Vautier, Ben PARTIE DU TOUT A BEN. Unique work in two parts. 1964 Black and white vintage photograph (7.8 x 10.7cm) with a text handwritten by Ben verso "Ruse Caravadocci 1963 1964" - the artist's address in Nice - mounted within a twosided passeporttout in a frame. In a separate frame is a larger letter written by Ben in feltpen to Willem De Ridder regarding his exhibition at Amstel 47 gallery, 1964 - which is signed. Both works were originally in De Ridder's collections since he was working with Rudolf Peereboom of the Amstel Gallery in Amsterdam and the works were intended to be displayed together by De Ridder in two frames next to each other. Image on request.
750 uk pounds for both items together
(Viennese Aktionism) Nitsch, Hermann 12 UNIQUE PHOTOGRAPHS OF VARIOUS AKTIONS 1969/1971. Unique photographic works and sole documentation of aktions. Twelve black and white photographs - all either 24 x 18cm or 18 x 24cm of private, behind closed studio doors, Viennese Aktionist performances from the period November 1969 to March 1971. The dates noted are 16 November 1969, 16 December 1969, 7 February 1970, 15 November 1970 and 6 March 1971. Each photograph (except for one) is signed verso by Nitsch and many have details of the Aktions written by Nitsch in ink verso in his hand including the unsigned work. The imagery is simultaneously raw, anti-clerical, eviceral and sexual - the inner guts of slaughtered animals are laid on the lower abdomen of a naked woman and the 4 participating artists pull her legs apart to expose her sex, a bloody vestment is buried, the animal corpse is displayed hung above the woamn and such-like. The origins and motives of the Aktionists' performaces are well known - the stultifying effects of Wien's state-church hegemonic rule creating a moral climate that simply begged rebellion but the work is even to a modern internet-hardened eye disturbing to look at. Images available to serious enquirers.
6,000 uk pounds for all 12 photographs together
Vostell, Wolf SAVINGS BANK Hamburg: Editional Griffelkunst, 1971 98 x 75.5cm silscreen on heavy paper in gray-silver, black and white. The image is a protest against the Vietnam war and shows an image of a young Vietnamese boy overprinted with a savings bank advert. One of 25 artistıs proofs signed bottom right aside from the numbered edition of 350 examples. Some minor edge damage but easily rectified by matting. Reference: Block Nr 48.
495 uk pounds
Wall, Jeff TRANSPARENCIES Basel/London: Kunsthalle/ICA, 1986 29.6 x 21cm., unpaginated (40pp) plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue with text in English by Ian Wallace and 38 photographic reproductions in colour and b/w. Laid in is the 16pp b/w German translation. Covers slightly rubbed over the red but over all very good. Scarce.
100 uk pounds
Warhol, Andy ANDY WARHOL Torino: Galleria Galatea, 1973 24.5 x 17.4cm, 24pp plus card covers with French folds. Exhibition catalogue displaying 14 works by Warhol all in colour including several unique Mao, Marilyn, Most Wanted Men and others. Near fine.
125 uk pounds
Warhol, Andy COW 1966 NYC: Andy Warhol, 1966 115.6 x 75.6cm three colour silkscreen the earliest of the Cow wallpaper prints by Warhol which was published in an "unlimited" edition for the Castelli Gallery exhibition. F&S Nr II.11. Near fine condition with fresh colours. Unsigned as issued.
3,950 uk pounds
SIGNED BY WEINER
Weiner, Lawrence WITTE DE WITH CAHIER Nr 1, TILL DEATH DO US PART MUTTI-VATI KULTUR AS LONG AS IT LASTS Rotterdam: Witte De With, 1993 27 x 20.5cm, 196pp plus pictorial card covers designed by Weiner. The first of a series of this artist's journal with a unique contribution by Weiner inside (2 photographs of a site specific installation) and the cover also designed by him. Other contributions are by Jessica Stockholder and Rodney Graham. This copy is unusually signed by Weiner on the half-title opposite the photograph of the Euromast in Rotterdam which displayed the words AS LONG AS IT LASTS. Fine.
95 uk pounds
Weiner, Lawrence OVER WIJ ABOUT WE Eindhoven: van Abbemuseum, n.d. Large b/w silkscreen t-shirt with the title text design by Weiner on the front. Artistıs multiple. Site or chest specific artwork?
30 uk pounds
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