Fred the frog rings the bell once a penny two a penny hot cross buns...
23 mounted illus. (all but one in color). 86 pp., one leaf with colophon. 4to, green printed boards, title on spine. Cologne: Galerie Max Hetzler, 1991.
Scarce Martin Kippenberger (1953-97) exhibition catalogue, produced in an edition of ca. 500-800 examples, according to Koch.
“[The catalogue] contains 23 pasted-in reproductions of a series of oil paintings on the theme of ‘Fred the frog on the artist’s cross.’ The first painting, reproduced in black and white, was created in 1988 in Seville, the others in 1989-90 in Venice, California. The book also contains 39 thirteenth- to nineteenth-century English poems with a German... More