Here we offer an extensive and significant collection of over 360 announcement cards, invite cards, publicity cards, announcement leaflets and other postcards by Joseph Beuys.
The collection currently consists of 324 cards and documents from July 1964 to artist’s unexpected death in January 1986 and a number of additional posthumous cards. The vast majority of these cards are directly related to solo exhibitions – of which Beuys had around 180 during his life time – hence this is a large proportion of all the Beuys invitation cards issued.
BEUYS UND WARHOL. 1988.
Darmstadt: Hessischen Landesmuseum, 1988
21 x 10cm, 6pp announcement card for a show of works by the two colossuses of the, then, contemporary art world in the year after Warhol's death and two years after Beuys' heart attack that took his life. Two b/w images of the artists internally. VG+.
JOSEPH BEUYS AUS DER SAMMLUNG VAN DER GRINTEN. 1988.
Leipzig: Galerie de Hochschule fur Grafik un Buchkunst, 1988
21 x 15cm, 4pp announcement card for a retrospective of works from a private collection, one painting reproduced in colour internally to the card. Slight damaged with close tears and handling creases.
JOSEPH BEUYS. VERANSTALTUNGEN IN KLEVE. 1989.
Kleve: Stadtbucherei Kleve, 1989 21 x 15cm, 4pp announcement and programme for a number of lectures and exhibitions in the artist's home town three years after his death. One portrait of the artist on the front, inside a listing of the events. There are a couple of ink annotations in red and black ink but else VG.
BITS & PIECES/WITCHES’ POINT. 1989.
NYC: Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, 1989
17.5 x 14cm, 2pp announcement card for a collection of historic works by Beuys from Caroline Tisdall's personal collection and additionally a related show of "poems and photographs" by Tisdall and Paul Van Vlissingen. One photograph of Beuys reproduced on the front. A mailed example with address label but VG+.
