Pescara: Lucrecia De Domizio, 1984
16 x 22cm, announcement card for a number of drawings incorporating dried flower which were first exhibited at the F.I.A.C. in the Grand Palais. This example is signed by Beuys and with a blue FIU rubber stamp impression. VG+.
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London: Anthony d'Offay , 1985
20 x 21cm, 1pp announcement card for teh title sculpture. One image of Beuys in Ireland at the Giant's Causeway and text in English explaining the original of the work. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1985
5.1 x 7.2 cm, 8pp concertina card printed red on white and on both sides of the card. On both sides is the same line: "WINDMILLS WINDING WATERS" one word per section, clearly one is to read the lines as having two different meanings.
The first is a description of the landscape the windmill is set in, the second is the wind caused by the rotating (winding) sails. VG+.
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Suttgart: Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1985 15 x 10.5cm, museum postcard displaying the title work of the golden hare which was made in 1982 at Documenta by Beuys after smelting down a golden crown. Museum details and postcard design on the reverse. VG+. ...
NYC: Mary Boone/Michael Werner Gallery, 1985 28 × 23.5cm, 6pp (single folded card). Announcement card for a three part exhibition of works by Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, and Brice Marden. Three full sheet images of works - Beuys' is Braunkreuz from 1962. VG+....
Berlin: Rene Block, 1985 21 x 20cm, original /w silver gelatine print issued to the press with an image of the artist installing the work "Junge Madchen aus Berlin" in the gallery in 1985. On the reverse is a typed label with details of the image and noting the photograph is from R. Block and a newspaper catalogue number. VG+. ...
Paris: Association Francaise d'Action Artistique, 1985
26.5 x 16.5cm, 12 inch LP (33rpm) in gatefold sleeve. The auditory documentation of an exhibition curated by Michel Nuridsany which included work by Bertrand, Buren, Lavier and Sarkis as well as Boltanski. The record has "Reconstitution De Chansons Qui Ont Été Chantées A Christian Boltanski Entre 1944 Et 1946" (3 minutes 48 seconds). There is a b/w image of the artist from one of his performances.
There is also a 26 x 26cm, 12pp insert with two pages given over to each artist (the text on Boltanski is accompanied by a colour image from the Les Ombres. Both VG+. Very scarce.
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Dusseldorf: Kuntmuseum Dusseldorf , n.d. (1975) 15 x 10.5cm, 2pp announcement card for an exhibition celebrating Staeck's fiftieth year - the front of the card reproduces a drawing by Beuys of a sledge. Verso museum details. A mailed copy with printed franking. VG+. ...
Paris: Maeght, 1985
37 x 27cm, 44 loose signatures in silkscreen outer folder on card. A single number of this artist's journal with original contributions by Kaminski, Mirsky, Réda, Barthelemy, Alberti, Holder, Léger, Gilbert and George, Macé, Mariscal and Cueff.
Boltanski also contributes a 4pp page work - a last day of school photograph of young children of which three faces are enlarged and placed within a drawn structure somewhat like a frame which infers each as a monument.
This is one of only 120 examples printed on velin which is signed and numbed by all of the artists (including Boltanski) on a colophon sheet. VG+. Scarce.
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Munchen: Galerie Bernd Kluser, 1985
21 x 15cm, 4pp red and black on white card. Announcement card for a solo exhibition of sculptures and drawings - on work Hirsch from 1984 is reproduced on the back page of the card. VG+.
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NYC: John Gibson Gallery, 1985
10.5 x 15cm 2pp. Announcement card for a show of multiples and editions - one of the very last of Bsuys' lifetime shows. Image on the front of Beuys preparing Feet Washing (1971) where he carried out the submissive action. A mailed copy with typed address verso else VG+.
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Firenze: Exempla/Exit Lugo 1985
8.9 x 31.7cm, 28pp (printed recto only) and printed white wrappers with printed dustjacket.
Artist's book with 8 colour typographic works by Finlay and Ron Costley. The texts are word combinations such as SEAPINK or STRAWBERRYCAMOUFLAGE- which have multiple meanings in part because of the lack of any spaces between the words. The works reproduced here were all released as much larger edition prints by the Wild Hawthorn Press but this book was an edition with Maurizio Nannuci in Italy himself a well known concrete and experimental poet (and artist). This is one of the deluxe copies - 150 signed and numbered by Finlay by hand in greem ink. VG+.
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