17 Jun

Posted at 21:40h in Miscellany

6 x 21cm, original vintage xerox which on one side has "THE MINIMUM NUMBER OF SHARES AS QUOTED ONN THE FORM DOES NOT APPLY IF YOU ARE ALREADY AN EXISTING SHAREHOLDER" and on the other side an original (and as far as we know an unpublished piece of doggeral by Finlay:
"What is this life
if full of care
a po-faced look
is all we wear." The poemis of course a parody of W. H. Davies's poem Leisure which has the line "What is this life if, full of care,: We have no time to stand and stare.". We do not know the date of this item. Folded. Unique.

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14 Jun

Posted at 16:38h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

Koln: Edition Staeck, 1980 Three boxes (each 18.5 x 13.5 x 1.4cm) content of 12 different picture postcards in each (36 in total) - a complete set of the cards issued by the publisher here aside from the more expensive object multiple where an “economic value” object was issued in a further card box. All fine in like boxes - very scarce in this format outside of the multiple....

14 Jun

Posted at 08:11h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

Gent: Edition Staeck, n.d. (1980) 17.1 x 12.3cm, 2pp artist's postcard with a colour image of fat placed in a corner by Beuys. One of a number of similar postcards released as part of the Das Wirtschaftswert-Prinzip edition where the cards were joined with a signed "economic value" item (common domestic products without branding found by Beuys in the former GGD) in a box. This example is boldly signed by Beuys on the front in red felt tipped pen and verso publisher's details. Someone in the past has unwisely tried to frame this card and there is a paper residue all around the back of the card from a gluing to a backing card, the only text on the otherwise blank back is slightly obscured by this. ...

13 Jun

Posted at 08:10h in James Lee Byars

47 x 47cm, pencil on red silk paper which is in the shape of a triangle. The text reads: "1 - 1 - 15/YES JAN YES ON MAY FOR THE EXHIBITION OF JAMES LEE BYARS WE MUST HURRY HERE'S .." It is not clear if part of this letter is missing. What is missing is the top of the letter because when we opened the framing after an auction house purchase at Bernaerts it was clear that damp had caused part of the paper to stick to the glass and tear off. Get good condition reports before bidding. ...

09 Jun

Posted at 08:10h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

Gent: Edition Staeck, n.d. (1981) 17.1 x 12.3cm, 2pp artist's postcard with a colour image of fat placed in a corner by Beuys. One of a number of similar postcards released as part of the Das Wirtschaftswert-Prinzip edition where the cards were joined with a signed "economic value" item (common domestic products without branding found by Beuys in the former GGD) in a box. This example is boldly signed by Beuys on the front in black felt tipped pen and verso publisher's details. Someone in the past has unwisely tried to frame this card and there is a paper residue all around the back of the card from a gluing to a backing card, the only text on the otherwise blank back is slightly obscured by this. ...

07 Jun

Posted at 14:42h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

Paris: Galerie Nancy Gillespie - Elisabeth de Laage, 1980 10 × 15cm, 1pp typographic announcement card for a gallery show. VG+ condition although a mailed example with tipped on address label verso.. ...

07 Jun

Posted at 12:55h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

Heidelberg: Edition Staeck, 1980
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp artist's postcard from the Originalgrafik - series D editions. The card lists a huge number of artistic supporters for the forthcoming elections called to support the SPD byt Beuys has overprinted the text "KITSCHPOSTKARTE" de facto criticising them as "kitsch" - Beuys of course being a founder member of the rival Gruenen Partie . This card is signed by Beuys at the top and a dedication also in his hand at the side - both in blue ink. VG+.Schellmann nr P 46.

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27 May

Posted at 21:57h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

Konig: Postkartenverlag, n.d. (c. 1980)
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp. artist's postcard with the title work (felt with the name Josefwritten on it) from 1963 in colour on the front, verso standard postcard design. This example is signed in red felt tipped pen on the front by Beuys. VG+.

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19 May

Posted at 11:02h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Berlin: AQ Verlag, 1980
20 x 20.7cm, 80pp plus pictorial wrappers. A single number of this photographic and art journal - here with 143 original contributions from artists mixed up into the booklet and shown in b/w. There are a wide range of artists from Warhol, Le Gac, Feldmann, Polke, Gilbert & George to name just a few.
Boltanski was given the cover and has three other small images in the book (nrs 101 - 103). The cover is a photograph of a jumping hare but taken from a model not an actual animal. VG+. Scare publication. Not in any catalogue raisonne.

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04 May

Posted at 20:10h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

Ludwigschafen am Rhein: Der Stadtverwaltung Ludwigschafen am Rhein, 1980
20.4 x 10.5, 4pp. Announcement card for a show of object multiples - with Beuys striding towards the camera (La Revoluzioni siamo noi) on the front, internally museum details.

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31 Mar

Posted at 21:42h in Prints + Posters

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press. 1980 66 x 93.5cm, blue on white offset lithographic print showing a sketch of a nuclear submarine by John Borg Manduca with the title text "SUB" and the Latin legend "SUB SPECIE AETERNITATIS" which is a Latin phrase that means something is universally and for all time true ("from the perspective of the eternal"). Nuclear subs are regarded as being deadly partially because they can stay underwater indefinitely and there is certainly a beauty to their slick form. one slight crease upper right else VG+. Ref.: Drukgrafik 4.80.2. ...

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