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RUBBER STAMP RELEASE DATE. 2025. ONE OF ONLY 15 NUMBERED & SIGNED EXAMPLES.

paul robertson — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 14:35:33 +0000

Brussels: MorePublishers, 2025
9.3 x 9.3 x 4.2cm, two part cardboard box content of a 7.5 x 2.5 x 2cm, "Trodat Pocket Printy" which is a self inking rubber stamp with a pre-set date which is the release date of the multiple (10 Dec 2025). The work references On Kawara's date paintings by noting the date of its own existance. One of only 15 examples (and 5 A/Ps) signed and numbered on a 8.5 x 8.5cm, 1pp certificate. VG+. Scarce.

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EVEN GODS HAVE DWELT IN WOODS, 1976. 2025.

paul robertson — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 18:38:57 +0000

Edinburgh: Museums Of Scotland, 2025
14.5 x 21cm, 2pp commercial art postcard displaying a stone sculpture by Finlay. VG+.

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THE SIZE OF MY RICHARD PRINCE BOOK COLLECTION. BLUE. (IMPERIAL) 2024. ONE OF 150 COPIES.

paul robertson — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 15:26:04 +0000

WATERFALL. 2022.

paul robertson — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 07:49:38 +0000

Glasgow: WAX366, 2022
15 x 10.5cm, 1pp full colour card with an image of a storage cabinet with hand towels arranged so that part of each towel is falling out towards the floor. The card is a visual pun on the title "Waterfall" which is ironically added to by the fact that the towels are objects usually used to dry up water not to provide it. VG+.

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CECI N’EST PAS UNE PIPE. 2022.

paul robertson — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 07:45:14 +0000

Glasgow: WAX366, 2022
10.5 x 15cm, 1pp full colour card with an image of some plumbing over which Bellingham has laid the title text: "CECI N'EST PAS UNE PIPE." to create a rather funny joke which references Rene Magritte's "The Treachery of Images" from 1929. VG+.

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100 THINGS THIS BOOK COULD HAVE BEEN. 2021. ONE OF 2 A/PS OUTSIDE THE EDITION 0F 10 COPIES.

paul robertson — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 20:40:31 +0000

N.p.: s.p. (Robertson), 2021
21 x 15cm, unpaginated (106pp) plus card covers. Spiral bound. A neo-conceptual art book where each page lists a possible alternative artwork to the actual book that was made. An artist's proof (one of two) aside from the actual run of only 10 numbered copies. VG+.

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UNTITLED. 2006. UNIQUE SIGNED DRAWING.

paul robertson — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 20:31:58 +0000

16 x 9cm, graphite on transparent paper. A drawing in McCrone's signature style where short lines are drawn based on rules (eg each verb) some underlying structure (such as newpaper paragraphs). The rule and structure here is unknown. Signed and dated in pencil by McCrone.
JOINT:
Two self published artist's postcards with a colour image of a work by McCrone and verso notes to Paul Robertson from the artist about outstanding payments (which were paid soon after - honest!).

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FIRE POINT. 2015.

paul robertson — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 21:28:56 +0000

65 x 65 x 5cm, photographic print on metal. The image of the "Fire Point" becomes another potential "Fire Point" wherever the work is placed. Unique. Signed on reverse.

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A NUMBER OF POINTS RANDOMLY CONNECTED. 2016. ONE OF ONLY 150 COPIES.

paul robertson — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 23:39:22 +0000

Berlin: Broken DImanche Press, 2016

21 x 15cm, 30pp plus wrappers in printed slipcase. A book explaining the international conceptual public art project where Monk published an A1 poster with a massive single typographic point in colour. The posters were then fly-posted in various cities - Berlin, Brussels, Milan, Toronto, San Francisco, Glasgow and Paris. The colour of the poster was different in each city. The book has a number of fantastic short stories ("topological fiction's) by John Holten. This is one of 150 published copies. VG+.

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IERI OGGI DOMANI ECCETERA. (6616). A SPECIAL PROJECT BY JONATHAN MONK. 20.16.

paul robertson — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 18:29:40 +0000

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THE WORLD EXISTS TO BE PUT ON A POSTCARD. 2015.

paul robertson — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 08:07:16 +0000

Glasgow: Wax366, 2015

10.5 x 15cm, 2pp artist postcard designed by Coracle's Cutts but published by David Bellingham - printed letterpress with a reworking of a quotation by Stephane Mallarme - the original reading: "...que tout, au monde, existe pour aboutir a un livre". VG+

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THE WORLD HAS BEEN EMPTY SINCE THE POSTCARD. 2015.

paul robertson — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 08:04:03 +0000

Glasgow: Wax366, 2015

10.5 x 15cm, 2pp artist postcard designed by Coracle's Cutts but published by David Bellingham - printed letterpress with a reworking of Saint Just's text from the arrest of Danton, the original reading: "The World has been empty since the Romans and only their Memory fills it and still prophesies Liberty." VG+

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