One of the artist’s unique bookworks, with painted, collaged, torn & re-attached leaves.
[73] leaves. 4to (296 x 215 mm.), orig. green semi-stiff boards, orig. gray tape over spine. N.p.: “Nov 75.”
A superb book by Gabriele Schmidt-Heins (b. 1949), filled with painted and stained interventions to every page. Other pages have been carefully cut or torn — one leaf has been intentionally torn in half and then re-attached with tape. Much of the book contains boldly drawn shapes and compositions and towards the end gradually turns to subtler manipulations of the leaves.
This is a remarkable example of the twins’ intense exploration of the book form, in fine condition.
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