Black & white illus. on recto, exhibition details on verso. Amsterdam: Seriaal, 1971.
Rare card produced by Wies Smals’s gallery Seriaal for a Niki de Saint Phalle exhibition. In fine condition. More
Black & white illus. 56, [16] pp. Oblong 4to (170 x 201 mm.), green cloth-backed pictorial boards. Groningen: Centrum Beeldende Kunst, 1991.
Scarce catalogue published in conjunction with an exhibition at Groningen’s Centrum Beeldende Kunst, organized by the bookdealer Johan Deumens. With essays by Anne Moeglin-Delcroix and Deumens, and contributions by Frans Baake, Guy Bleus, Michael Buthe, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Sjoerd Hofstra, Christine & Irene Hohenbuchler, Alfred Kocman, Per Jonas, Roland Sips, Corrie van de Vendel/Hayo van Gemerden, Hans Waanders, and Giuseppe Zevola. The texts are all translated into English on the final 16 pages.
In 1980, with Juan J.... More
Black & white photographic illus. on glossy recto, details to verso. Square card. New York: Bykert Gallery, 1971.
The large square photographic card announcing Dibbets’s debut solo show in North America. On the recto is one of the artist’s photographic works depicting the gallery entrance, taken with fragmented exposure times. Bykert Gallery was managed by Klaus Kertess and Jeff Byers from 1966 to 1975.
In excellent condition. The name of museum director Rudi Fuchs (b. 1942) has been written on the verso. More
Black & white illus. on recto, details to verso. Card. Milan: Galerie Lambert, 1970.
Announcement card for Dibbets’s debut exhibition in Italy, staged at Françoise Lambert’s Milan gallery. An installation photograph of the artist’s Shadows, Krefeld (1969) is on the recto. Near fine; creased.
❧ Sophie Richard, Unconcealed: The International Network of Conceptual Artists 1967-77, Dealers, Exhibitions and Public Collections (2nd printing: 2010), p. 368. More
Printed on one side. Card. London: Hester van Royen Gallery, 1977.
Announcement card for Dibbets’s 1977 show with Hester van Royen. Near fine. More
Illustrated recto, details on verso. Pictorial postcard, mailed. Düsseldorf: Konrad Fischer, 1974.
Postcard invitation to Dibbets’s 1974 presentation with Konrad Fischer. The text “No Opening” is printed above a green grid on the recto.
In fine condition. Mailed to Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam director Edy de Wilde (1919-2005). Under de Wilde’s leadership, the museum purchased a large number of works by the artist in the 1970s.
❧ D. Fischer, ed., Ausstellungen bei Konrad Fischer: Düsseldorf Oktober 1967-Oktober 1992 (Edition Marzona: 1993) 99. More
Color illus. on recto, details to verso. Pictorial postcard, mailed. Paris: Yvon Lambert, 1974.
Postard invitation to the third solo presentation of Jan Dibbets staged by Yvon Lambert. The text “Vernissage” is printed over a blue grid on the recto. In excellent condition. Mailed to Stedelijk Museum curator Frits Keers (1936-2000).
❧ Sophie Richard, Unconcealed: The International Network of Conceptual Artists 1967-77, Dealers, Exhibitions and Public Collections (2nd printing: 2010), p. 371. More
Printed on both sides. Postcard, mailed. Basel: Rolf Preisig, 1974.
Postcard invitation for Dibbets’s first exhibition with Preisig. In excellent condition. Mailed to art historian Rudi Fuchs (b. 1942).
❧ Sophie Richard, Unconcealed: The International Network of Conceptual Artists 1967-77, Dealers, Exhibitions and Public Collections (2nd printing: 2010), p. 376. More
Color photographic illus. on recto, details on verso. Postcard, mailed. Hannover: Fernsehgalerie Gerry Schum, [1970].
Postcard invitation to Dibbets’s presentation of the video Painting 1/2 made in holland, which was offered by Schum’s gallery in an edition of 4 original videos that were numbered and signed. In fine condition. Mailed to art historian Carel Blotkamp. More
Printed on both sides. Postcard, mailed. Eindhoven: Van Abbemuseum, 1971.
Postcard invitation for Dibbets’s solo museum exhibition at the Van Abbemuseum. In fine condition. Mailed to curator Frits Keers (1936-2000). More
Printed on both sides. Postcard, mailed. Los Angeles: Claire S. Copley Gallery, 1975.
Postcard invitation for an exhibition by Jan Dibbets at Copley’s Los Angeles gallery. In fine condition. Mailed to Stedelijk Museum curator Frits Keers (1936-2000). More
Black & white illus. on recto, details to verso. Pictorial postcard. Bremerhaven: Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst Bremerhaven, 1973.
Postcard invitation for Dibbets’s only show at Jürgen Wesseler’s gallery in Bremerhaven. A fine copy.
❧ Exhibition installation pictured in Vorhut aus dem Hinterland (Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen: 1992). More
Printed on both sides. Postcard, mailed. Paris: Yvon Lambert, 1977.
Postcard invitation to Lambert’s 1977 presentation of Jan Dibbets. In excellent condition. Mailed to Stedelijk Museum curator Frits Keers (1936-2000).
❧ Sophie Richard, Unconcealed: The International Network of Conceptual Artists 1967-77, Dealers, Exhibitions and Public Collections (2nd printing: 2010), p. 472. More
Black & white illus. on recto, details to verso. Pictorial postcard, mailed. Torino: Christian Stein, 1981.
Postcard invitation to Dibbets’s 1981 show with Christian Stein. Fine. Mailed to Stedelijk Museum curator Frits Keers (1936-2000). More
Printed on one side. Postcard. Paris: Yvon Lambert, 1980.
Postcard invitation for Lambert’s 1980 presentation of Jan Dibbets (b. 1941). Fine. More
Printed on one side. Oblong postcard, mailed. Paris: Yvon Lambert, 1972.
Postcard invitation for Dibbets’s second solo exhibition with Yvon Lambert. In fine condition. Mailed to Frits Keers (1936-2000), senior curator at the Stedelijk Museum.
❧ Sophie Richard, Unconcealed: The International Network of Conceptual Artists 1967-77, Dealers, Exhibitions and Public Collections (2nd printing: 2010), p. 371. More
Printed on one side. Stiff & large card. Torino: Gian Enzo Sperone, 1976.
Invitation card to Dimitrijevic’s 1976 exhibition with Gian Enzo Sperone. Near fine; several pin-holes.
❧ 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, 493. More
Illus. throughout. [18] pp. Oblong 4to, brown printed wrappers, staple-bound. Bremerhaven: Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, 1976.
Scarce photographic artist’s book by Braco Dimitrijevic (b. 1948), printed in an edition of 500 copies. It was published by Jürgen Wesseler’s Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst in cooperation with the Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD. The book documents the artist’s correspondence with the scandalous Lord Weymouth which then led to Dimitrijevic’s visit to Longleat to see Weymouth’s erotic murals. The final pairing of photographs juxtaposes Longleat House and the modest building in which Dimitrijevic’s studio was located.
In fine condition. More
Unmailed card. Text on recto, verso blank. Amsterdam: Seriaal, 1971.
Exhibition card for Dine’s exhibition at Wies Smals’s gallery. Seriaal was an Amsterdam gallery devoted to accessible and affordable editions, multiples, and prints. A former librarian at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Smals (1939-83) directed the gallery from 1968 until 1975, when she turned it over to gallerist Helen van der Mey.
Near fine. More
Black & white illus. [4] pp. Single folded sheet. Milan: Galleria Schwarz, 1964.
The gallery’s exhibition brochure announcing the publication of Marcel Duchamp: Ready-Mades, etc. (1913-1964), with parallel Italian, French, and English text. It also lists ready-mades and sculptures available exclusively at the gallery in only eight copies, such as Roue de Bicyclette (1913), Fountain (1917), Air de Paris (1919), etc.
In fine condition. We locate two examples of this brochure in North America. More
Printed on one side only. Flyer, stamped arrow on recto, horizontal & vertical folds as mailed. Amsterdam: 1977.
The Other Books and So announcement for an exhibition of books and magazines published by Edizioni Geiger in Torino. Brothers Adriano (1941-88) and Maurizio Spatola (1946-2022) founded Edizioni Geiger in 1968, the firm was famous for its experimental literary magazines. This included the journal Tam Tam, created by poet Giulia Niccolai (b. 1934) and Adriano in 1970.
Fine.
❧ Catalogue 237: Ulises Carrión (2022), p. 180. More
12 black & white illus. pasted on leaves. 32 unnumbered pages. 8vo (214 x 135 mm.), orig. blue cloth over boards (spine sunned), title in gilt on upper cover & spine. [Manchester: The Cloister Press, Ltd., 1943].
An exceedingly rare Epstein exhibition catalogue, signed by the artist; WorldCat records only the BL copy. As explained on the verso of the title-page, 50 percent of sales from this exhibition were to be given to the Merchant Navy Comforts Service. Epstein writes a brief introduction about the works he has selected: “The works in this collection which date from so early as... More
Four black & white illus. 7 pp. & ads. Small 4to (144 x 115 mm.), cream printed wrappers, staple-bound. [London: 1933].
An uncommon illustrated exhibition catalogue listing 29 of Epstein’s works in bronze and marble. The show, which took place at the Leicester Galleries, featured busts of Joseph Conrad and Edith Dunn Beatty. Four of the works are reproduced on bound-in plates.
Good copy, staple rusted and as a result, the central bifolium has become loose. Pencil annotations on the upper cover. Only three copies in North America according to WorldCat. More
Printed on both sides. Card. Rome: Sperone & Fischer, 1974.
Invitation card to Fabro’s first and only solo exhibition with Gian Enzo Sperone, it was held at Sperone and Konrad Fischer’s shared gallery in Rome. In fine condition.
❧ 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, pp. 242-43 (installation photographs) & 492. More