Printed on both sides. Postcard, mailed. Houston: Cusack Gallery, 1975.
The postcard invitation for Huebler’s 1975 Cusack Gallery show mailed to Huebler(!). The best possible copy of this invitation. In very good condition; small stain to recto. Mailed to Huebler’s Truro, Massachusetts PO box. More
![Item ID: 9284 Exhibition card: Peter Hutchinson (15 March-11 April [1969]). Peter HUTCHINSON](https://jonathanahill.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9284.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1687385185)
Black & white photographic illus. to recto. Photographic card, mailed. New York: John Gibson Gallery, [1969].
Illustrated invitation card for Hutchinson’s 1969 show with John Gibson. In fine condition. Mailed to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. More
24 pp. 8vo (212 x 135 mm.), orig. green printed wrappers, stitched as issued. Autun: Dejussieu & L. Villedey, 1856.
Scarce critical essay on Ingres’s painting Le Martyre de saint Symphorien, which has been housed in the Cathédrale Saint-Lazare d’Autun since 1834. The painting was originally ordered by Roch-Etienne de Vichy, the bishop of Autun, in 1824. Ingres finally completed it in 1834 and selected it for that year’s Salon, where it was received negatively, leading to Ingres never again participating in the event. The anonymous author of this critique provides the historical context for the picture and meticulously describes... More
16 pp. Tall 8vo, printed wrappers (spine a little worn), staple-bound. [Detroit]: The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1980.
Scarce catalogue for a travelling exhibition of artists’ books that took place in several locations around Michigan.
Very good copy. Price sticker on upper wrapper. More
34 pp. 8vo (215 x 136 mm.), orig. pictorial wrappers (corners a trifle worn), staple-bound. [Paris]: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1951.
The updated French edition of this scarce museum catalogue. The Jeu de Paume was opened in 1947 for the exhibition of Impressionist artworks. Its earliest shows were organized by René Huyghe (1906-97), paintings curator at the Louvre, and one of the figures responsible for the safeguarding of France’s artistic treasures during the German occupation. Huyghe’s assistant curator, Jean Leymarie (1919-2006), edited the present catalogue. It proceeds room by room, updating earlier versions of the catalogue with the new arrangement... More
Details on recto, verso blank. Printed card. New York: John Weber Gallery, 1972.
Scarce and early exhibition ephemera distributed by John Weber Gallery. Shortly after the closure of Virginia Dwan’s New York gallery on West 57th Street where he was director, Weber opened his own space at 420 West Broadway in September 1971. Many of Dwan’s artists joined Weber’s new gallery and several were part of the present exhibition.
In excellent condition. More
Printed on one side. Card. Rome: Sperone & Fischer, 1973.
Announcement card for Judd’s 1973 exhibition at Gian Enzo Sperone and Konrad Fischer’s gallery in Rome. Judd had shown with the latter in July 1970 in Düsseldorf, but this was the first time he worked with Sperone.
In excellent condition.
❧ A. Minola, ed., Gian Enzo Sperone: Torino-Roma-New York, 35 anni di mostre tra Europa e America (2000), Vol. II, pp. 224-25 & 492. More
Black & white photographic illus. on recto, details to verso. Photographic postcard, mailed. Bremerhaven: 1977.
Postcard invitation to the ten-year celebration of Jürgen Wesseler’s Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst Bremerhaven. The recto photograph is a street-view of the legendary storefront with its floor-to-ceiling windows.
In excellent condition. Mailed to graphic designer Wim Crouwel’s Total-Designe. More
Single sheet, printed on recto only, two black & white illus., horizontal & vertical folds. Amsterdam: 1977.
Rare Other Books and So flyer for an Allan Kaprow (1927-2006) exhibition. The items displayed were supplied by Barbara Moore and Jon Hendricks’s dealership Backworks. The flyer bears two slightly unsettling found images from a medical textbook. The present show was one of several held concurrently early on at the bookstore’s new premises at Herengracht 259. Tom Ockerse’s exhibition had the same dates.
Fine. From the collection of Tjeerd Deelstra (b. 1937), the collector and Fluxus adherent.
❧ Guy Schraenen, ed., “We have... More
White text on blue on recto, details on verso. Card. Düsseldorf: NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, 2002.
Scarce card announcing a CD recording of One Million Years. Fine.
❧ On Kawara (Phaidon: 2002), p. 158. More
Black and white & color illus. [18] pp. Large 4to, printed wrappers, staple-bound. Nagoya: Akira Ikeda Gallery, 2002.
A very rare On Kawara exhibition catalogue, published by one of his main Japanese dealers. Six "Date Paintings" (from 1967 to 2001) were shown, all of which are illustrated within.
In near fine condition; some marks to the lower wrappers. In WorldCat we locate just the copy at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Printed in an edition of 1000. More
10 black & white illus. 4to, printed wrappers, staple-bound. Nagoya: Akira Ikeda Gallery, 1988.
An uncommon On Kawara catalogue, it presents an extremely rare consecutive week of the artist’s Date Paintings (5-11 April, 1987). Begins with an essay by Kikuko Amagasaki (“On Kawara: Seeing and Reading”), in Japanese and English, and illustrates all ten paintings shown, all of which were executed in 1987. At the end, there is a list of the works displayed and a bibliography. This was Kawara’s third solo show with Akira Ikeda, his first took place in 1983.
From Amagasaki’s essay: “DATE PAINTING is different in... More
Several color illus. 63 pp. Small 4to (223 x 169 mm.), pictorial boards, title on spine, pictorial endpapers. Cologne: Kölnischer Kunstverein & Japanisches Kulturinstitut, 1997.
Scarce catalogue for an exhibition jointly organized by the Kölnischer Kunstverein Japanisches Kulturinstitut in Cologne (26 August-8 October 1995). It was published two years after the exhibition took place.
The catalogue contains installation views, a diagram of the exhibition space, and lists of the rotating display of On Kawara’s Date Paintings. Each week the paintings were rotated with new ones. On the facing wall copies of the newspapers which the artist used to construct the... More
Black & white illus. 13, [1] p. Small 8vo, printed wrappers, stitched. Birmingham: Ikon Gallery, 2006.
Uncommon exhibition catalogue for On Kawara’s solo presentation at Ikon Gallery. From the foreword by curator Jonathan Watkins: “This exhibition consists entirely of Date Paintings. They are part of On Kawara’s Today Series, an ongoing project begun in 1966, a series of paintings, each made in a day, bearing the inscribed date on which they were made. Each painting in this selection was made on a Sunday, one selected per year since the inception of the Today Series, thus conveying the idea ironically of... More
White text on blue. Large card. New York: Sperone Westwater, 1990.
Card announcing Kawara’s 1990 exhibition at Sperone Westwater. Fine.
❧ On Kawara (Phaidon: 2002), p. 154.
A. Minola, M.C. Mundici, F. Poli, M.T. Roberto, eds., Gian Enzo Sperone: Torino, Roma, New York: 35 Anni di Mostre tra Europa e America (2000), Vol. II, p. 495. More
Color photographic illus. on recto, details on verso. Large photographic card. Rotterdam: Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, 1991.
Card announcing Kawara’s solo museum exhibition in Rotterdam at the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen. The recto photograph shows 6 Mrt. 1991 with its box and newspaper clipping. Fine.
❧ On Kawara (Phaidon: 2002), p. 154. More
[4] pp. Folding card. London: Lisson Gallery, 1985.
Invitation card to Kawara’s second solo exhibition at Lisson. All of the “Date Paintings” that were displayed are listed on the inside of the card. Fine.
❧ Not in On Kawara (Phaidon: 2002).
Artist | Work | Lisson (2017), p. 650. More
Color photographic illus. on recto, details on verso. Photographic card. Hamburg: Deichtorhallen Hamburg, 1992.
Invitation to the vernissage of the Hamburg leg of Kawara’s date paintings in 89 cities exhibition, held at the Deichtorhallen. The photograph on the recto captures Kawara’s 6 Oct. 68 painting with its box and newspaper clipping.
Fine.
❧ On Kawara (Phaidon: 2002), p. 154. More
Text on both sides. Postcard, mailed. Berlin: Galerie René Block, 1978.
Announcement postcard for Kawara’s second show with Block and the forthcoming artist’s book of the same name that documents the artist’s telegrams sent from 1970 to 1977. Fine. Mailed to Oscar Ackermann of Leverkusen.
❧ On Kawara (Phaidon: 2002), p. 150.
M. Babias, B. Eusterschulte, & S. Rollig, eds., René Block, Ich kenne kein Weekend. Ausstellungsprojekte, Texte und Dokumente seit 1964 (2015), p. 474. More
Black & white illus. on recto, details on verso. Pictorial card. New York: David Zwirner, 1999.
Invitation card to Kawara’s solo debut with David Zwirner, the exhibition centered around the artist’s I Read series. Fine.
❧ On Kawara (Phaidon: 2002), p. 157. More
Printed on both sides. Large hole-punched card. Rottweil: Forum Kunst Rottweil, 1980.
Invitation card for Kawara’s show in Rottweil, organized by Jürgen Wesseler, proprietor of the famed Kabinett für Aktuelle Kunst Bremerhaven. Kawara’s I Got Up postcards and I am still alive telegrams were the focus of the present exhibition.
Fine.
❧ Not in On Kawara (Phaidon: 2002). More
Black & white photographic illus. on recto, details on verso. Photographic postcard. Düsseldorf: Konrad Fischer, 1972.
Postcard invitation to Kawara’s first-ever gallery presentation of “Date Paintings” from the Today series. An early and iconic photographic of a series of “Date Paintings” executed in 1966 hung on the wall of the artist’s studio is on the recto.
In excellent condition.
❧ D. Fischer, ed., Ausstellungen bei Konrad Fischer: Düsseldorf Oktober 1967-Oktober 1992 (Edition Marzona: 1993) 62.
On Kawara (Phaidon: 2002), p. 147. More
White text on black recto, details on verso. Postcard. Düsseldorf: Konrad Fischer, 1989.
Postcard invitation to Kawara’s 1989 Fischer show in Düsseldorf. Fine.
❧ Not in On Kawara (Phaidon: 2002).
D. Fischer, ed., Ausstellungen bei Konrad Fischer: Düsseldorf Oktober 1967-Oktober 1992 (Edition Marzona: 1993) 266. More
Printed on both sides. Postcard. Düsseldorf: Konrad Fischer, 1991.
Postcard invitation to Kawara’s 1991 solo presentation with Fischer. The recto lists the “Date Paintings” shown, where they were painted, and their dimensions. Fine.
❧ On Kawara (Phaidon: 2002), p. 154.
D. Fischer, ed., Ausstellungen bei Konrad Fischer: Düsseldorf Oktober 1967-Oktober 1992 (Edition Marzona: 1993) 299. More