Bonn/Koln: Galerie Klein/Galerie Ha. Jo. Muller, 1981 15 x 10.5cm, 4pp typographic announcement card for a show of eight artists which include Beuys amongst others. The show was split between two galleries. Internally there is advance notice of Arnulf Rainer, SIgmar Polke and Gunter Tuzina exhibitions. VG+. ...
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1981
5 x 7cm, 4pp. One of Finlay's smallest cards - here with a drawing by Lucius Burckhardt of a face with a republican hat above a capital from a classical column. not the best sketch ever as it looks jumbled and hard to see but there you have it. Inside the card is one of Finlay's "definition" works - the double meaning of the "A REPUBLICAN CROWN" is joined with a quotation from Gerd Neumann about Callimachus the Greek poet of the disappearance of a capital which reads like word salad. You can take from the above that this is not my favourite of cards.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1981
17.8 x 12.1cm, 8pp plus printed card covers. By the 80s the press published small catalogues of new works and old stock. previously they had circulated single sheets or even xeroxes. This was a sign of increasing financial success and improvements in print technology/affordability). VG+
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Köln: Galerie Holtmann, 1981 10.4 x 14.8cm, 2pp announcement card for the title edition released in only 24 examples after the Rhein-Aktion by Nicolas Uriburu and Beuys. An image of the multiple bottle of poisoned water is reproduced on the front in lime green and black and verso a subscription form. VG+. ...
Nijmeegs: Nijmeegs Museum, 1981
10.5 x 17.2cm, 4pp announcement card which has a reproduction of a drawing of a woman inside - all of the drawings exhibition were of women. VG+.
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Bonn: Galerie Klein, 1982
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp black on cream thin card. Announcement for an exhibition and also the book of the same title by Beuys and Dirk Rochtus and with photographs by Ute Klophaus. Only 40 signed copies were released. VG+.
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Paris: Yvon Lambert, 1981
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp announcement card with a reproduction of the cover of the artist's book by Beuys published by Yvon Lambert on the front. Verso minimal details and a rubber stamp impression "Joseph Beuys/10 Oct 81/Yvon Lambert, Paris". A mailed example that shows some franking ink marks on the front due to the postal experience else VG+.
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Munchen: Schellmann & Kluser, 1981 15 x 21cm, 2pp photo-announcement card with a image of an untitled work on the front and verso gallery details. VG+ - this card is signed on the front in red ink by Beuys - however because of the high shine of the card the signature is a little hard to see. ...
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1981
43.2 x 35.5cm, full colour on white paper offset lithograph with a reproduced painting by Ian Gardner of three boats near a river with trees. The sub title is "Arcades, Asphodel, Startled Fawn, below Richmond Bridge. After W. Steer, E. March, F. Carr." Asphodel is the flower that is said to carpet Hades, and a food of the dead. The image of the boats under the recognisable bridge suggests that of the passage to Hades via the Styx. The startled fawn of the original painting (presumably a composite of those by the three named painters) has long gone having presumably been startled. VG.
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Koln: Koenig, n.d. (1981) 15 x 10.5cm, 2pp commercial postcard showing Beuys in front of a mammoth skeleton and the title text in the artist's facsimile hand. Verso postcard design but also a handwritten note from an unknown hand to Cateria Gualco sent from Documenta 8 (1987). Stamoped and franked else VG....
Heidelberg: Edition Staeck, 1981
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp. Original postcard edition by Beuys issued as part of the "Originalgrafik - Series D" in 1981 but later overwritten by Klaus Staeck in 1997 (it is dated by hand as 9.9.97)with a note about copies of the Honeypumpe work being available for 20DM and with a blue rubber stamp impression with Edition Staecks' address. Signed by Staeck in black ink.
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London: White Lies Publications, 1981
21 x 15 x 1cm, two part printed green box content of a bag of elastic bands, nine silkscreen prints of different Arcadian glider kits (each 21 x 15cm, 1pp) and an instruction booklet.
"Each airplane is embellished with a military decal and the name of an appropriate common garden feature has been printed on the rear wing. When the airplanes have been constructed, they may either be displayed together as a squadron or, if you have access to a garden, they should be carefully placed in the relevant spot to act as markers or name tags and a pleasing focus of interest for when the flowers are out of season." (I
An unusual garden multiple published by Steve Wheatley's small press. VG+ in like box.
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