(LONG, Richard).

Exhibition postcard: Richard J. Long: Sculpture Bei Konrad Fischer (5 July-1 August [1969]).

Black & white photographic illus. with text in red on recto, details on verso. Large-format photographic postcard, mailed. Düsseldorf: Konrad Fischer, [1969].

Rare postcard invitation to Richard Long’s second Konrad Fischer exhibition, the first took place the previous September-October. Long (b. 1945) displayed a sculpture composed of pine needles called Sculpture at Konrad Fischer Düsseldorf (1969). A caption for the recto photograph reads: “The River Avon, Bristol: The Pill Ferry crossing at half tide, seen from the Shirehampton side of the river.” S. Richard’s Unconcealed suggests that Giuseppe Panza di Biumo purchased Sculpture at Konrad Fischer… from Gian Enzo Sperone after the exhibition.

“‘I have never felt so spontaneously enthusiastic about anyone as I did about Richard Long,’ said Konrad Fischer about the first time he saw one of the British sculptor’s works. This was in 1967 at the group exhibition Dies alles, Herzchen, wird einmal Dir gehören (One Day, Darling, All of This Will Belong to You) in the Galerie Dorothea Loehr in Frankfurt, where Fischer, alias Lueg, also took part…”–Cloud & Crystal: The Dorothee and Konrad Fischer Collection (2016 exhib. booklet), p. 45.

A near fine copy; small vertical crease. The recto photograph was taken by D. Johnston. Mailed to collectors “Herrn und Frau Karl Heinemann” of Mönchengladbach.

❧ D. Fischer, ed., Ausstellungen bei Konrad Fischer: Düsseldorf Oktober 1967-Oktober 1992 (Edition Marzona: 1993) 22 (pictured).

Sophie Richard, Unconcealed: The International Network of Conceptual Artists 1967-77, Dealers, Exhibitions and Public Collections (2nd printing: 2010), p. 318.