Paris: Tornabuoni Art/Yvon Lambert, 2010
21 x 15cm, 4pp, Announcement card for the solo exhibition by Monk which took place during the major retrospective of the work of Alighiero Boetti in Paris. The car reproduces one of Boetti's Mappa works on the inside and back cover mentions the Monk show.
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21 X 15cm, 1pp invitation leaflet to the launch of the Boetti book "Catalogue General d'Alighiero Boetti". Typographic only.
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London: The Economist, 28th November 2009
30 x 21cm, 106pp plus wrappers. A single number of this important international financial magazine which contains a paid advert by Jonathan Monk on page 104 - "Keith Arnatt was an artist" under the "Business & Personal" section. Arnatt sometimes used commercial tv advertising for works. VG+.
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N.p.: n.p., n.d. (2009)
Small plastic, metal and paper button badge with the title text (which not only reflects the pin aspect of the badge but also other Monk works where pins are pushed through postcards and other items). Limitation unknown. Fine.
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N.p: s.p., n.d.
Two different 84 x 64cm, full colour lithographic prints each with a different view of the artist’s father having fallen through a deckchair while relaxing in his garden. A typically nostalgic use of the artist’s family archive to create a new work used we believe as a floor stack in the way that Felix Gonzalez-Torres would do. Limitation unknown. VG+.
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Glasgow: Tramway, 2009
30 x 21cm, unpaginated. Pictorial hard boards. Artist's book where Monk has appropriated a Blue Peter (a UK famous and very popular long running children's programme from the BBC) annual (a staple of Xmas stockings remembered fondly by middle class adults of a certain age) and added items from his collection of announcement cards by conceptual artists. Limitation unknown. Fine.
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Malmo:Malmo Kunsthall, 2009
14.8 x 10cm, 2pp colour postcard with an image of a Tokyo post box where the card was posted. One of a long series of similar cards sent from all over the world. This example unsigned and unposted. VG+.
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N.p.: n.p., n.d. (c 2009)
38 x 34cm, green silkscreen on cream cotton plus red handles. One of a number of such bags where Monk indicates his shopping interests but here no specific seller is being specified - instead the lack of a seller is designated as "Untitled" a title that is more associated with individual artworks rather than a shop. Slightly faded but else VG+.
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Berlin: Eroticxa, n.d. (c 2009)
38 x 34cm, black silkscreen on cream cotton pus handles. One of a number of such bags where Monk indicates his interest in their products by his simple endorsement. On the back of the bag, the design is repeated but in a mirror image. Slightly faded but else VG+.
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Turin:Galleria Sonia Rosso, 2009
15 x 10cm, 2pp colour postcard with an image of a post box in Turin. One of a series of similar conceptual mail art works by Monk where the card is meant to be posted from the same postbox. This example is unmailed but has the city name written on the back in pencil by Monk. VG+....
Torino: The Store, 2009
38 x 34cm, black silkscreen on cream cotton pus handles. One of a number of such bags where Monk indicates his interest in their products by his simple endorsement. Slightly faded but else VG+.
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N.p.: n.p., n.d. (c. 2009?)
7.5 x 14cm, 1pp announcement card with the title of the show and the dates but not the year on it. Signed on the back by Monk in pencil. VG+.
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XL red cotton t-shirt with printed image of the artist with one of his works (Rabbit) which has had a blue circle painted on it, below a Koons plastic sticker has been ironed on and two button badges (one being from Specific Object and the other reads "I (HEART) PORN". This is a unique work made for an exhibition in New York in 2009 at Specific Object. Signed and dated in ink on the back. One of the badges has some foxing on it but else VG+.
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