James Lee Byars - Unoriginal Sins

17 Aug BABY BAUDELAIRE. 1969. FOLDED OFFPRINT SHEET FROM 1,000,000 MINUTES WITH HAND ADDRESSED AND FRANKED.

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Antwerpen: Wide White Space, 1969<BR> 28 x 21.4cm, 1pp black on pink paper. A single offprinted sheet (not cut out) of a page from Byars' first ever book (1,000,000 minutes or the big sample of Byars or 1/2 an autobiography or the first paper of philosophy) with the title text "Baby Baudelaire" in the artist's facsimile hand. Folded and sent out by the Wide White Space gallery presumably to promote the book. Not found in any Byars reference. VG+. JOINT: Antwerpen: Wide White Space, 1969<BR> 12.5 x 15.5cm, white printed envelope with the address of the gallery top right on the front. This is a hand-written and franked item but in VG+ condition although there are two tiny holes for a past staple apparent at the top. Scarce if admittedly entirely ephemeral....

22 Apr WWS HAS BEEN RENAMED THE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCED STUDY OF JAMES LEE BYARS. 1969.

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Antwerpen: Wide White Space, 1969<BR> 11.5cm, die cut five pointed star printed black on white card. Announcement card (which does not give the date of the show in April 1969 at the Wide White Space gallery) - while ostensibly an invite card the work is much more akin to one of the artist's paper object multiples . Scarce. VG+. ...

18 Apr JAMES LEE BYARS AT WIDE WHITE SPACE. 1969.

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Antwerpen: Wide White Space, 1969
12 x 12cm, 2pp. Typographic card with tiny text printed green on white. Notes the performances of A PINK SILK AIRPLANE FOR 100 1000 MINUTES OF ATTENTION OR 1/2 AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JAMES LEE BYARS. VG+. ...

19 Mar PLEASE COME TO THE TV BALL….. 1969.

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N.p.: n.p. 1969 35cm x 35cm, red tissue paper in the shape of a five pointed star with the text: “Please come to the TV Ball at the Garden Store Showroom on Fear. 27 at 7pm (for 1 hour as Tribute to Jeff (sic actually “Jef") Cornells and the TV Staff and to the success of the James Lee Byars world Question Centre. The World Question Center, was a construction of the artist which was featured in a live broadcast on Belgian television in 1969, where students phoned famous intellectuals to discover what questions they were asking themselves. This rare ephemera is one of the earliest of Byars’ paper works. Folded for mailing there are tiny tears on some edges but over all VG for such a delicate item....

19 Mar 100,000 MINUTES / OR THE BIG SAMPLE OF BYARS/ OR 1/2 AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY / OR THE FIRST PAPER OF PHILOSOPHY. 1969.

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Antwerpen: Wide White Space, 1969 27 x 20cm, unpaginated (200pp printed recto only). Original wrappers. Byars’ first ever artist’s book printed black on pink paper. One of only 250 examples. VG+. ...

12 Mar THE EPITAPH OF CON. ART IS WHICH QUESTIONS HAVE DISAPPEARED. 1969.

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Antwerpen: Wide White Space, 1969 A long horizontal strip of white paper (7 x 80 cm), with text printed offset black (0.55 x 34.3 cm). Together with the large white paper envelope (24.2 x 30 cm), with text printed offset black, in which the ephemera, being crumpled in a ball shape, had to be placed. Our copy is flat and unfolded....

26 Oct BLACK DRESS (FROM SMS PORTFOLIO NR 1). 1968.

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NYC: Letter Dressed in Black Press, 1968 25 x 25cm black envelope with a silkscreen image of Byars Four in a dress. Content of a folded "dress", With 3 holes and 1 "cap" representing the 4 dancers who performed in a 1968 performance sculpture by James Lee Byars. The dress opens out to 50cm dia. One of 1,200 copies released as part of Copley’s famous SMS portfolios. ...