TOUT No. 7. 1965. WITH HANDWRITTEN ADDITION TO ONE PAGE. ONE OF 250 COPIES.

Nice: Centre de Art Total (the artist), n.d. (1965)

21.2 x 16.7cm, 48pp plus brown paper covers with printed “TOUT” and hand addition by Vautier noting it was nr 7. Bound by metal rivets. A single number of Ben’s irregular journal which often differed from example to example. Pages are offset printed, mimeographed, often with collage elements and on different paper stock. Unusually in this copy one page has the word “Devil” written by Ben in red ink in a box with below it the text: “ecrivez ici n’importe quoi” (write anything here) to make a small unique work. There is an article by Jean-Jacques Lebel “Le happening, une mise au point par J.J. Lebel” and a poem by Michael Alocco “Composition no. X”

The foreword notes only 250 copies were released – 100 in Paris, 100 in the USA and 50 in Nice. The spine of the cover has a number of closed tears but is complete and the book has the original rivets in place. Internally VG+. Very scarce.