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12 Jan KREUZ + ZEICHEN. DAS KREUZ ALS UNIVERSALZEICHEN BEI BEUYS. 1986. BEUYS’ LAST EXHIBITION BEFORE HIS SUDDEN DEATH

Ratingen: Stadtmuseum Ratingen, 1986
10.5 x 21cm, 2pp announcement card for Beuys' last ever exhibition during his lifetime - he suddenly died of a heart attack on 23 January 1986 - only two weeks after the opening of the show. Text only design. VG+.

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06 Jan DER FUCHS. 1986.

Posted at 09:11h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Bonn/Zurich: VG Bild-Kunst/Pro Litteris, 1986
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp. Commercial artist's postcard issued at the time of Beuys' sudden death with the work "Fox" (an oil on paper painting) on the front in colour, verso standard postcard design. VG+.

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09 Dec UNTITLED (BEUYS PAINTING A WALL). SIGNED BY BEUYS.

Posted at 16:06h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

N.p,: n.p., n.d. (1985?) 17 x 17cm, 1pp b/w postcard displaying a b/w image of Beuys painting a wall. He has signed the card Joseph Beuys in green ink. VG+. ...

09 Dec UNTITLED (BEUYS WITH AXE). SIGNED BY BEUYS.

Posted at 16:04h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

N.p,: n.p., n.d. (1985?) 10.5 x 15cm, 1pp b/w postcard displaying a b/w image of Beuys holding an axe while sitting on a couch. He has signed the card Joseph Beuys in blue ink. VG+.

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09 Dec UNTITLED (FAT CHAIR). SIGNED BY BEUYS.

Posted at 15:27h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

N.p,: n.p., n.d. (1985?)
15 x 10.5cm, 1pp b/w postcard displaying a colour photograph of Beuys' Fat Chair - over the image the artist has signed the card "Joseph Beuys" in green ink. On the reverse there is an attached label with biographical details of Beuys. it is not clear the origin of this card. VG+.

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09 Dec UNTITLED (PORTRAIT OF ARTIST). SIGNED BY BEUYS.

Posted at 15:23h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

N.p,: n.p., n.d. (1985?)
15 x 10.5cm, 1pp b/w postcard displaying a b/w image of Beuys - over the image the artist has written "Fur Volker Kol?(hard to read) and signed the card Joseph Beuys in blue ink. VG+.

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09 Nov JOSEPH BEUYS. WIRTSCHAFTSWERTE. 1985.

Posted at 11:00h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Lille: Extrsamuros, 1985
21 x30cm, 4pp large format announcement card where Beuys' Economic Value works were shown as an installation. The front of the card shows the various items on racking, internally there is an essay by Denis-Laurent Bouyer "Valeurs Economiques, Valeurs de l'art". VG+.

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25 Oct CAPRI-BATTERIE. 1985.

Posted at 21:22h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

NYC: Massimo Audiello Gallery, n.d. (1985)
11.8 x 15.8cm, 1pp announcement card with a typographic design to promote an exhibition featuring the Capri-Batterie multiple where Beuys put a lemon coloured lightbulb to be lit by the electricity from a lemon it is plugged into. VG+.
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21 Oct FRIEDRICHSPLATZ (DOCUMENTA). 1968.

Posted at 09:29h in Joseph Beuys Artists' Cards, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Heidelberg: Edition Staeck, 1985
11 x 22.3cm, 2pp artist's postcard issued during Documanta IV by Beuys. The commercial postcard view is overstamped (in print) with the Deutsche Studentenpartie. Issued as part of Staeck Serie 3. VG+. ...

18 Oct CAPRI-BATTERIE NACH 1000 STUNDEN BATTERIE AUSWECHSELN. 1985.

Posted at 18:52h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Naples, Lucio Amelio, 1985 15 x 22cm, 1pp announcement card printed yellow on white for the exhibition where the object multiple (a lemon coloured bulb attached to an Italian plug which is meant to be attached to a lemon to gain power) was on show. The work being a metaphor for the use of nature as a force for change or even energy. One brown mark on the left of the card else VG. ...

09 Oct PLIGHT. 1985.

Posted at 09:48h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

London: Anthony d'Offay , 1985
21 x 15cm, 4pp announcement card for the title sculpture. One image of Beuys in Ireland at the Giant's Causeway on the front and gallery details internally. VG+.

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08 Oct OMBELICO DI VENERE. 1985. SIGNED & STAMPED BY BEUYS.

Posted at 18:35h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Pescara: Lucrecia De Domizio, 1984
16 x 22cm, announcement card for a number of drawings incorporating dried flower which were first exhibited at the F.I.A.C. in the Grand Palais. This example is signed by Beuys and with a blue FIU rubber stamp impression. VG+.

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