Pescara: Lucrezia de Dominzio, 1978
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp artist's postcard showing Beuys at a meeting of the "FOUNDATION FOR THE REBIRTH OF AGRICULTURE" organised by the FIU. Verso postcard design. VG+.
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Pescara, Lucrezia de Domizio, 1978 10.4 x 14.5cm, 2pp artist's postcard with a b/w photograph by Buby Durini of Beuys informally talking with students and members of the public on the grass of the Friedrichplatz in Kassel (probably during Documenta). Lucrezia De Domizio is next to him. The card was issued for an event in Italy “Fondazione per la rinascita dell’agricoltura” (Foundation for the rebirth of agriculture) and there is a second card also issued for the event with a not dissimilar scene of Beuys in discussion. VG+. ...
Pescara: n.p. , 1978
11.5 x 17cm, 2pp red and green silkscreen on white card. Announcement for an exhibition of political works. On the front the Nazi swastika has a text in Italian that reads "JOSEPH BEUYS, THOSE WHO DO NOT KNOW OR REMEMBER, REPEAT." VG+.
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Bremen: Kleine Grafik-Galerie, 1978
20 x 10.7cm, 4pp (but printed recto on outside only). Typographic announcement card for a show of lithographs and object multiples. Beuys has signed this card in pencil and also stamped it in blue with the Haupstrom symbol. VG+.
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Braunschweig: Kunstverein Braunschweig, 1978
10.5 x 21cm, 2pp announcement card with a work reproduced on the front (a half cross in felt which Beuys in actions often made complete by adding a further half-cross in different materials)). On the reverse museum details. VG+.
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Karlsruhe : Badischer Kunstverein, 1978
26 x 22 x 2cm, two part black conservation box content of a 24 x 19.5cm, 124pp plus boards and dust jacket. The deluxe version of the exhibition catalogue for a solo show of mostly photography. Texts in German by Andreas Franzke and Michael Schwartz. Later sections include re-printings of various of the artist's previous exhibition works and images from artist's books including Reconstitutions de Gestes Effectues par Christian Boltanski, L'album Photographes de la familie D., Les Habits de Francoise C., Les 62 Membres du Club Mickey en 1955,the Inventaire des objets appartenant a un jeune homme d'Oxford, Descriptions des 20 Regles et techniques utilisee en 1972 par un enfant de 9 ans, Les Images Modeles, Les compositions fleuries, and Les Compositions Photographiques and other images of the artist's "comic" performances of the 70s.
This deluxe copy of the book comes with two original editioned photographs by Boltanski - the first three original passport style b/w photographs of the artist taken on the dates - 5 September 1965 (the day before the artist's birthday), 27 November 1970 and 28 January 1978. The dates are written in the artist's hand on the gridded 24.5 x 20.5cm, 4pp card under the tipped on images.
Inside the card is a second photographic print - here in colour - of a set of children's plastic toys that resemble worker's tools. The card is signed and numbered on the back of the card as "VI" in pencil by Boltanski with a rubber stamp impression. The last page of the hardback catalogue is also signed and numbered "VI" in pencil by the artist. There were only 20 such deluxe copies issued during the exhibition. ALl are VG+ in like box. Reference: Flay Boltanski Catalogue Page 146.
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Dusseldorf: Galerie Schmela, n.d. (c. December 1977)
14.8 x 10.6cm, 1pp typographic design announcement card for a group show at the gallery which lists all of the participating artists (including Beuys) in alphabetic order - including Anatol, Arakawa, Arman, Agnes Martin, Mack, Matta-Clark, Rinke, Rot(h), Tapies, Uecker, Wewerka and others. this was the 171st show at the gallery which is how we are able to date the card.
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Berlin: Edition Hundertmark, n.d. (1977)
10.3 x 15cm, 2pp. Artist designed card issued by Hundertmark with printed rubber stamp impressions by Beuys (Fluxus Zone East) and Ken Friedman (Fluxus Zone West). Beuys has written a hand signed dedication in red ink over the front of the card to (what we think is) Klaus-Gunther Schulz. The blue colour of the printing of the Fluxus Zone stamp impression is much lighter than other examples of this card we have seen - suggesting this was an additional printing of the work. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1977
22.9 x 28.8cm, blue on white paper in folded 6pp blue folder. Nine warships all of the Flower Class corvette class. The names of the ships were all after flowerrs. The print asks the owner to "fill in the Flowers with colours from the palette below" - the 'colours' are all words such as "fragrant", "open", "erect", "drooping" obviously not actual colours. The idea came from a work from Tom and Laurie Clark of the Moschatel Press (who were friends of Finlay).
This is one of 350 signed and numbered copies on the inside of the folder. Two slight faint marks at bottom of the print else VG in like folder.
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Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, Summer 1973
Two 33 x 20.4cm, 2pp offset lithographic price list (now called a checklist) for the Press stapled top left. Mentions a long list of old and new publications from the Press with prices. Folded at the bottom for past storage else VG+.
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Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1977
6.6 x 21cm, 2pp. A photographic card with a b/w image of a lily pond and the surface pond scum which has been disturbed by the passage of a swimming bird to leave lines in the algae. Amusingly Finlay credits this painterly image to himself, Carl Heideken (the photographer) and an "unidentified waterhen". The image is meant to appear like an improvised painting or even an avant garde music score (if one squints a bit and uses one's imagination) hence the title. VG+.
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Genoa: Samangallery, 1977 10 x 15 cm, embossed white, red on black announcement card which reproduced a Beuys blackboard drawing on the front with some success (along with an indented Hauptstrom stamp impression). The back of the card is hand addressed to Lucrezia De Domizio and is a mailed example with stamp. VG+ condition. ...