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Unoriginal Sins is an established venture trading in the field of the contemporary and modern avant garde movements from 1900 to the present day. We have a vast inventory of books, documents, artworks, ephemera, object multiples, LPs and other digital media as well as representing major collections from significant artists.

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A SIGNIFICANT & EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF POSTERS BY JOSEPH BEUYS. 1965 – 1986.

Here we offer an extensive and significant collection of 91 posters designed or approved by Joseph Beuys and 9 posthumous posters from exhibitions relating to the artist.

 

Twenty-seven of the cards are signed by Beuys and sometimes rubber stamped. Some are regarded as edition multiples in the Schellmann catalogue raisonne.

 

Individual posters are for sale by clicking on the relevant image. A price for the entire collection is available on request.

WASSERFARBEN. SEPTEMBER 1986. ONE OF THE FIRST EXHIBITIONS AFTER ARTIST’S SUDDEN DEATH.

Dusseldorf: Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande un Westfalen, Sept 1986. Folded. 84 x 59.5cm, full colour lithographic offset exhibition poster with a reproduced water colour painting by Beuys over museum details. This exhibition was prepared in advance of the artist's sudden death in January 1986 and showed watercolours mostly of landscapes and animals.  VG+ but previously folded for storage. Not in Beuys Prestel Posters.

JOSEPH BEUYS WASERFARBEN. 1986. NOT IN PRESTEL BEUYS POSTERS

Dusseldorf: Kunstverein Dusseldorf, 1986<br /> 84 x 60cm, full colour exhibition poster with a reproduced full colour painting above museum details. Folded with minor creases - however this is a very scarce poster indeed from the artist's last year of life and is NOT in Prestel Beuys Posters. <BR><BR>

BEUYS. 1987.

Hamberg: Galerie Kammer, 1987 90 x 6ocm, black and red on brown paper lithographic offset exhibition poster with two images of  Beuys lecturing. Rubber stamp impression of gallery address. VG+.

JOSEPH BEUYS. 1988.

Berlin: Akademie-Galerie, 1988 88 x 61cm, b/w lithographic offset exhibition poster with an image of a thoughtful Beuys. VG+.    

SCULPTUREN UND OBJEKTE. 1988.

Berlin: Martin Gropius-Bau, 1988 84 x 59.5cm, full colour exhibition poster displaying one work by the artist in full colour. Slight damp mark on left - priced thus else VG.

VENT’ANNI CON BEUYS. 1991.

N.p. (Naples): Lucio Amelio, 1991. 72 x 37cm, full colour lithographic offset exhibition poster with an image of Beuys walking towards the camera from the work la Rivoluzione Siamo Noi. VG+.

PLASTISCHE ARBEITEN UN ZEICHNUNGEN 1947 – 1985. 1991.

Krefeld: Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, 1991. 84 x 59cm, full colour offset lithographic exhibition poster for a major posthumous show of works. One installation work reproduced. Some edge damage where the paper has slightly creased and some handling creases due to the very large size of the poster but else VG.  

JOSEPH BEUYS FILMS AND VIDEOS. 1995.

NYC: New School for Social Research, n.d. (1995) 84 x 60cm, black and brown on white paper, offset lithographic exhibition poster for a posthumous show of video and cinema works with an image of Beuys and gallery details. VG+.

JOSEPH BEUYS. 1978. SIGNED BY BEUYS.

Verona: Galleria Ferrari, 1978. 67.8 x98.8cm, b/w lithographic offset exhibition poster with an image of a Beuys performance.  This example of the poster is signed by the artist in pencil. VG+. Scarce. Beuys Prestel Posters nr 102.    

BEUYS-BLUME GESPRACH UBER BAUMEN. 1982. SILKSCREEN SIGNED BY BOTH BEUYS & BLUME

Bonn/Hamberg: Kampnagelfabrik,1982 60.5 x 42cm green on cream silkscreen poster designed by Blume in association with Jospeh Beuys. This example is signed by Blume in black ink next to his face and by Beuys (with "rabbit ears" on the B) next to his on the left. There is also a rubber stamping. Fine. Beuys posters nr 191.

AUFRUF ZUR ALTERNATIVE. 1979. FIRST OF THREE VARIANTS RELEASED BY FIU.

Dusseldorf/Achberg: FIU, 1979<br > 60 x 41.7cm, exhibition poster which displays Beuys's long text for his manifesto of 1978 which was originally published in the Frankfurter Rundschau. There were three variants of this poster released simultaneously by the FIU - this is the first with a small portrait of the artist. VG+.

24 STUNDEN: BEUYS, BROCK, MOORMAN, PAIK, RAHN, SCHMIT, VOSTELL. 1965.

Wuppertal: Gallerie Parnass, 1965 50.7 x 65cm green on white offset poster. The very rare plakate for the early Fluxus 24 hour happening including many of the foremost artists working in Germany at that time. Notable for the early involvement of Beuys and Paik. This copy is a mailed (with clearly printed and dated frank) and folded copy with tipped on address label. There are a few contemporary pencil annotations on the back of the poster in French which do not affect the poster at all. One 3cm closed tear on the left hard side of the poster else VG. Ref: Weiss/Britisch - Prestel Beuys Posters nr 4.

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