Announcement card: 30 nieuwe tekeningen (July-August 1972).
Black & white illus. on recto, text on verso. Amsterdam: Seriaal, 1972.
Announcement for Henneman’s 1972 summer exhibition at Seriaal. Very good copy. More
Black & white illus. on recto, text on verso. Amsterdam: Seriaal, 1972.
Announcement for Henneman’s 1972 summer exhibition at Seriaal. Very good copy. 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
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
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
[4] pp. Folded card. Dijon: Le Consortium, 1990.
Invitation card for the two-man show of Kawara and Giacometti at Le Consortium in Dijon. Near fine.
❧ On Kawara (Phaidon: 2002), p. 153 (recorded as a “solo” show) 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
Printed on recto. Card. New York: Sperone Westwater, 1986.
Invitation to Kawara’s 1986 Sperone Westwater exhibition, for which a selection of “Date Paintings” made in 20 different years was shown. In excellent condition.
❧ On Kawara (Phaidon: 2002), p. 152.
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. 352 & 494. 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
Black & white illus. on recto, text on both sides. Pictorial card. Bern: Kunsthalle Bern, 1974.
Announcement card for Kawara’s debut solo museum exhibition. With details on the opening (in German & English) and the price of the exhibition catalogue. Fine.
❧ On Kawara (Phaidon: 2002), p. 148. 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
[4] pp. Folding card. Zürich: Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, 1988.
Invitation card to Bischofberger’s show of Kawara “Date Paintings,” this was Kawara’s only exhibition with the gallery. Near fine.
❧ Not in On Kawara (Phaidon: 2002). 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.
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