CONTRAT. PRESERVATION DES DROITS DE L’ARTIST. 1972. SIGNED BY SETH SIEGELAUB.

NYC: s.p. (Siegelaub), 1972
The French language variant of this famous legal document. First edition. 30 x 22cm, 8pp folded contract (opens to 60 x 44cm, 2pp) designed to improve the rights of artist’s and give them certain rights – including a 15% cut of any future monetary exchange involving their work. Siegelaub’s wish was to diminish the role of dealers (hmmph!) and give art back some of its purity outside of the tawdry matter of monetary value. The failure of the venture lead indirectly, and in part, to his decision to retire as a major influence in the world of contemporary art and deal in books about Chinese crockery (and nowadays theoretical physics). This copy is signed in ink by Siegelaub and is a very fine copy of this now scarce document. Other copies were produced in English and German. It is not lost on us that the contract states:”Cette feullille n’est pas a vendre”.