Illus. on recto. Single sheet, vertical & horizontal folds as issued. Amsterdam: 1978.
Rare flyer announcement for an exhibition by Italian artist and poet Mirella Bentivoglio (1922-2017) at Other Books and So. It depicts some examples of her “letraset metaphors,” “stamp-poems,” and “ideo-poems.”
In excellent condition.
❧ Catalogue 237: Ulises Carrión (2022), p. 181. More
Text on recto, verso blank. Amsterdam: Seriaal, 1971.
Card announcing the exhibition and sale of a very rare Beuys multiple (12 copies). It was to be exhibited for one day only. This card is in fine condition. More
Printed on both sides. Postcard, mailed. New York: 1990.
Postcard invitation for a group show of Conceptual artists. Near fine. Mailed to lawyer Jerald Ordover (1927-2008). More
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Many color illus. 7 p.l., 45 pp. Large 4to, pictorial wrappers, perfect-bound. London: Open Editions, 1992.
Uncommon and nicely illustrated exhibition catalogue, with the essays printed in Finnish and English parallel text. This travelling exhibition of British artists’ books was held at the National Gallery of Iceland, the Tokyo Gas Shinjuku Showroom, the Malmo Konstal, the National Museum of Contemporary Art (Norway), and the Vantaan Kaupunki. Work by Blamey, Büchler, Cutts, Fulton, Finlay, Long, Sackett, Stokes & Douglas, etc.
Near fine; a few scuffs.
❧ A. Desjardin, The Book on Books on Artists Books (2nd ed.: 2013) 62... More
Many illus. iv, 60 pp. 4to, printed softcover, title on spine. Bristol: Impact Press, 1999.
Uncommon exhibition catalogue, a useful resource on British artists’ books and their makers in the 90s. The catalogue was published for the Impact International Multi-disciplinary Printmaking Conference and the exhibition took place at the University of the West of England, Bristol. With text contributions by Sarah Bodman, Chris Taylor, Colin Sackett, Deirdre Kelly, Stephen Bury, Iain Biggs, Carinna Parraman, and Meg Duff.
In fine condition. Edition of 1000.
❧ A. Desjardin, The Book on Books on Artists Books (2nd ed.: 2013) 172. More
Many black & white illus. [80] pp. Small 4to, printed softcover. Münster: Westfälischer Kunstverein, 1973.
Signed copy of this uncommon Christian Boltanski (1944-2021) artist’s book. It not only photographically documents the possessions of the titular Oxonian but also the numerous rejections Boltanski received from museums and cultural institutions around Europe. Text in parallel French, English, German. The photographs were taken by Peter Ibsen, director of Oxford’s Museum of Modern Art.
A fine copy, signed by the artist and numbered with a stamp (no. 280) on the title-page. Unknown edition size, though according to Calle, 50 copies were numbered with a.... More
310 black & white illus., on rectos only. [24] leaves. 8vo (210 x 141 mm.), orig. semi-stiff printed wrappers, perfect-bound. Paris: CNAC, 1974.
First edition, an excellent copy of Boltanski’s fifth inventory, documenting all the earthly possessions of a randomly selected person, this time a resident from Bois-Colombes, a suburb of Paris. This book was published for an exhibition (15 October to 2 December 1974) at the Centre national d’art contemporain. Earlier versions of this piece took place in Baden-Baden, Jerusalem, Oxford, and Copenhagen.
Boltanski explains the intention of this work in the Avant-Propos (in trans.): “The inventory of objects... More
Three black & white illus. 9 unnumbered pages. 8vo (210 x 135 mm.), orig. gray printed wrappers (a little sunned), staple-bound. Paris: P. Rosenberg, 1936.
A scarce Braque exhibition catalogue of paintings made since 1931, featuring mostly still lifes along with two nudes. It lists 20 paintings, three of which are illustrated. Rosenberg had lured Braque away from Daniel Henry Kahnweiler and his brother Léonce in 1922. Braque’s first solo exhibition at Paul Rosenberg’s famed gallery on 21, rue la Boëtie took place in 1924. The final page of this catalogue announces future exhibitions for Seurat, Picasso, Monet, Matisse and... More
Details on recto, verso blank. Berlin: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2021.
Posthumous Stanley Brouwn (1935-2017) exhibition organized by the haubrok foundation at the KW Institute in Berlin. Fine. More
Printed on recto only. Card. Berlin: haubrok foundation, 2012.
Scarce card made for Brouwn’s 2012 haubrok foundation exhibition. Fine. More
Printed on one side only. Card. Berlin: haubrok foundation, [2018].
Scarce Brouwn exhibition card produced by the haubrok foundation. Fine. More
Printed on both sides. Card. Villeurbanne: Institut d'art contemporain, 2012.
Announcement card for a brouwn (1935-2017) museum exhibition that never occurred. The artist withdrew weeks before the vernissage. Fine. More
Printed on both sides. Postcard. Düsseldorf: Konrad Fischer, 1970.
Postcard invitation to Stanley Brouwn’s debut show at Konrad Fischer’s gallery.
“Stanley Brouwn’s first of five solo exhibitions at Fischer’s gallery, it opened in December 1970. The artist presented works documenting the number of steps he had taken while wearing a pedometer on his walks through several neighborhoods of Düsseldorf prior to the exhibition. The aspect of movement and the site-specific reference, which were key features in the exhibitions at Konrad Fischer’s gallery at the time, were also central here.”–Cloud & Crystal: The Dorothee and Konrad Fischer Collection (2016 exhib. booklet)... More
Artist’s name on recto, details on verso. Postcard. Düsseldorf: Konrad Fischer, 1978.
Invitation to Brouwn’s 1978 show, it was held at Konrad Fischer’s Platanenstrasse gallery. In fine condition.
❧ D. Fischer, ed., Ausstellungen bei Konrad Fischer: Düsseldorf Oktober 1967-Oktober 1992 (Edition Marzona: 1993) 145.
Harry Ruhé, ed., stanley brouwn: a chronology (2nd ed.: 2005) More
Details on verso. Postcard, mailed. Düsseldorf: Konrad Fischer, 1976.
Postcard invitation to Brouwn’s third exhibition with Konrad Fischer. A fine copy, mailed to Hermann Kern of Munich.
❧ D. Fischer, ed., Ausstellungen bei Konrad Fischer: Düsseldorf Oktober 1967-Oktober 1992 (Edition Marzona: 1993) 115.
Harry Ruhé, ed., stanley brouwn: a chronology (2nd ed.: 2005). More
Printed on one side. Postcard. Bern: Kunsthalle Bern, 1977.
Scarce postcard made for Brouwn’s exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bern. Fine.
❧ H. Ruhé, ed., stanley brouwn: a chronology (2nd ed.: 2005). More
Printed on both sides. Postcard. Antwerp: Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, 2008.
Postcard invitation to Brouwn’s 2008 show with Szwajcer. Fine. More
Printed on recto only. Small postcard. Berlin: haubrok foundation, 2014.
Scarce card distributed by the haubrok foundation. It is made to measure 1/2 brouwnfuss x 1/10 m (=13 x 10 cm). Fine. More
Printed on both sides. Postcard, mailed. Düsseldorf: Konrad Fischer, 1973.
A scarce uncorrected example of the postcard invitation for Brouwn’s second show at Konrad Fischer. In excellent condition. Mailed to Judith Cahen (b. 1938).
❧ D. Fischer, ed., Ausstellungen bei Konrad Fischer: Düsseldorf Oktober 1967-Oktober 1992 (Edition Marzona: 1993) 74
H. Ruhé, ed., stanley brouwn: a chronology (2nd ed.: 2005).
B. Tonini, ed., Artists’ Invitations 1965-1985 (2019) 174. More
14 black & white illus. [10] pp. 4to (270 x 215 mm.), printed softcover. Eindhoven: prins bernhard fonds, 1980.
Very scarce Stanley Brouwn (1935-2017) catalogue, published to mark the artist receiving the David Röell-Prijs from the Prins Bernhard Fonds in 1980; unknown edition size. It contains reproductions of twelve this way brouwn drawings from 1964 and 1 m, 1 step (1980). Text in English.
In near fine condition; some minor scuffing to the spine and the lower cover
❧ Harry Ruhé, ed., stanley brouwn: a chronology (2nd ed.: 2005). More
[12] leaves. 4to (219 x 180 mm.), printed wrappers, staple-bound. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1977.
Scarce Stanley Brouwn (1935-2017) exhibition catalogue/artist’s book published for his solo exhibition at Whitechapel; edition of 1000 copies and printed by Westerham Press. The measurements in the catalogue fluctuate between “1000 mm + 876 mm” and “1000 mm + 884 mm.”
Near fine.
❧ Harry Ruhé, ed., stanley brouwn: a chronology (2nd ed.: 2005). More
[40] pp. & colophon. Square 4to (155 x 156 mm.), printed softcover. Geneva: Ecole supérieure d’art visuel, 1994.
A very rare Stanley Brouwn (1935-2017) artist’s book; WorldCat shows no example outside of Switzerland and France. Brouwn was a visiting professor at the institution in 1994, and had an exhibition there of aluminum pieces 9-30 March. The printed calculations within are a mix of meters, steps, ells, feet and their equivalent in centimeters, decreasing from 400 to 178 cm. Much like the ostensibly incorrect computation on the title and first page, the rest throughout the book do not seem accurate.
In... More
Unpaginated. Square 4to (158 x 162 mm.), printed softcover, title on spine. Frankfurt: Portikus; Rotterdam: Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, 1993.
Rare Stanley Brouwn (1935-2017) artist’s book co-published by Portikus and the Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art; unknown edition size. We locate only a handful of copies in American institutions.
In this publication, Brouwn multiplies meters, ells, steps, and feet on each page, and converts them to centimeters. It was produced on the occasion of the 1993 Frankfurter Buchmesse.
Very good copy; large diagonal crease to the lower cover and a smaller one to the upper... More
Line illus. throughout. [104] pp. Square 4to (156 x 161 mm.), printed white softcover, title on spine. Brussels: Gallery MTL, 1975.
Scarce Stanley Brouwn (1935-2017) artist’s book, published by Fernand Spillemaeckers’s MTL gallery in Brussels in an edition of 250 copies. This was the second book that the artist made with the gallery, the first was one step 1x-100x (1971). In the present one there are 100 pages with ten vertical lines and “1000 mm” printed above, which in total amounts to the titular measurement.
In near fine condition; some minor discoloration to the extremities.
❧ H. Ruhé, ed.... More