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

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

Illus. throughout. 104 pp. 4to, pictorial softcover, title on spine. Bremen: Neuen Museum Weserburg Bremen, 1992.

An invaluable exhibition catalogue on Jürgen Wesseler’s Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst Bremerhaven. There are installation photographs for many of its most famous exhibitions and interviews with artists who had exhibited there, including Lawrence Weiner, Franz Erhard Walther, and Andreas Slominski. With essays by Claudia Meier (“Zwischen Kunst und Publikum”) and Hanne Zech (“Vorhut as dem Hinterland”).

A near fine copy. WorldCat records a single copy in North America, at Bard. 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

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

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 on recto, details on verso. Card. Dijon: Le Consortium, 1985.

Card for Kawara’s first solo exhibition at Le Consortium. Fine.

❧ On Kawara (Phaidon: 2002), p. 151. More

Illus. & text on recto, details on verso. Pictorial card. Frankfurt am Main: Museum für Moderne Kunst, 1994.

Announcement for a museum exhibition examining Kawara’s earliest works made while he was living in Tokyo. A show with this title was first staged in 1993 at Parco Gallery in Tokyo. The recto illustration depicts the artist’s haunting Pregnant Women (1954). Fine.

❧ On Kawara (Phaidon: 2002), p. 155. 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.

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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.

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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