IDIEH. 2000.
Gentilly: Room, 2000 8.5 x 11cm, typographic design by Gette on the front, verso gallery details for a joint show. VG+.
£15.00
50 ANS DE RENCONTRES & DE CONVERSATIONS. 2022. SIGNED & DEDICATED TO PAUL ROBERTSON.
N.P.: Press du Reel, 2022 29 x 20cm, unpaginated c. 280pp plus pictorial wrappers. A major monograph on the work of Paul-Armand Gette covering is interest in classical gods, the landscape and the female form. Many full colour and b/w illustrations of works throughout. Text in french by Marguerite Pilven. This copy is handsigned and dedicated to Paul Robertson using the latter's nickname "pablorobo" by Gette on the first blank inner page. VG+. Not for sale.
UNTITLED (BOOKMARK). 2018.
Paris: S.P. (Gette), 2018 21 x 5.5cm, 1pp. Full colour reproduced drawing of a pissing vagina which is a visual pun on a flower. The work is an attractive (!) bookmark. Limitation unknown.
£20.00
DESSINS SUSPENDUS. 2021. ONE OF ONLY 300 EXAMPLES.
Nice: Press du Reel, n.d. (2021) 24 x 19cm, 12pp plus card covers with a short text by Gette as foreword and a conversation between the artist and Tenebria Lupa. Issued during an exhibition in La galerie Satellite where paintings and drawings on paper by Gette were hung by string from the walls and ceiling. Three large colour images of works and one small reproduction. VG+. One of only 300 examples printed.
£25.00
IN NATURA RERUM. 1996.
Nantes: Musee des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, 1996 27 x 21cm, 80pp plus card covers and printed dustjacket. Exhibition catalogue for a museum retrospective - 19 full colour images of installation and other works from the show and numerous b/w images of the artist and works. Essays in French by Bernard Marcade and a biography by Jonas Storsve and Marie Rouhete. One water stain to the unprinted back of the dust jacket else VG.
£40.00
DEUX RENCONTRES INSOLUTES. 2015. ONE OF 100 NUMBERED EXAMPLES
Paris: Yvon Lambert, 2015 17 x 12.3cm, 16pp plus card covers and pink dust-jacket. Artist's book with seven colour photographic images and text by Gette in French. One of 100 hand-numbered examples. VG+.
£45.00
DIVERTISSEMENTS BOTANKIIQUES. 2014. ONE OF 100 NUMBERED EXAMPLES
Paris: Yvon Lambert, 2014 17 x 12.3cm, 16pp plus card covers and green dust-jacket. Artist's book with six colour and one b/w photographic images and text by Gette in French. One of 100 hand-numbered examples. VG+.
£45.00
AURORA CONSURGENS! 2017. ONE OF 100 NUMBERED EXAMPLES.
Paris: Yvon Lambert, 2017 17 x 12.3cm, 16pp plus card covers and yellow dust-jacket. Artist's book with eleven colour photographic images and text by Gette in French. One of 100 hand-numbered examples. VG+.
£45.00
DE CYPRIS A VENUS. 2018. ONE OF 100 NUMBERED EXAMPLES.
Paris: Yvon Lambert, 2018 17 x 12.3cm, 16pp plus card covers and blue dust-jacket. Artist's book with seven colour photographic images and text by Gette in French. One of 100 hand-numbered examples. VG+.
£45.00
PETITS LINGES. 2019. ONE OF 100 NUMBERED EXAMPLES
Paris: Yvon Lambert, 2015 17 x 12.3cm, 16pp plus card covers and pink dust-jacket. Artist's book with six colour images of female underwear and three b/w photographic images (one a portrait of Gette as a young boy) and text by the artist in French. One of 100 hand-numbered examples. VG+.
£45.00
ELOGE DE L’HAPTIQUE. 2020. ONE OF 150 NUMBERED EXAMPLES
Paris: Yvon Lambert, 2020 17 x 12.3cm, 16pp plus card covers and russet red dust-jacket. Artist's book with seven colour photographic images and one b/w reproduced drawing and a text by Gette in French. One of 150 hand-numbered examples. VG+.
£45.00
translation d’alice a artemes. 2021. ONE OF 100 NUMBERED EXAMPLES
Paris: Yvon Lambert, 2020 17 x 12.3cm, 16pp plus card covers and green on white dust-jacket. Artist's book with nine colour photographic images and a text by Gette in French. One of 100 hand-numbered examples. VG+.
£45.00
DANGER? 2022. ONE OF 150 NUMBERED EXAMPLES.
Paris: Yvon Lambert, 2020 17 x 12.3cm, 20pp plus card covers and green on white dust-jacket. Artist's book with fourteen colour photographic images, two in b/w and a text by Gette in French. One of 100 hand-numbered examples alongside an additional 50 deluxe examples. VG+.
£45.00
tabula rasa soirees 1 (la plaque tournante in london). 2022.
London: La Plaque Tournante, 2022 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp. Announcement card for the live broadcast and concert of Acquaviva's Seminal along with an exhibition of works by members of the Seminal Orchestra - Orlan, Jean-Luc Parant, Jean-Jacques Bory, Charles Dreyfus, Paul-Armand Gette, Lore Lixenberg, and others. VG+.
£10.00
Des Vanités aux Cinématographies III. 1994. ONE OF 300 EXAMPLES.
Paris, La Maison des Amis des Livres, 1994 18 x 10cm, 14pp plus red card covers. Artist's book with two b/w illustrations of women's panties and text in French from a lecture by Gette. One of 300 copies. VG+.
£40.00
Des bords de la Gironde à l’astroblème ou avant & après. 1998.
Bordeaux, Librairie Galerie Architypographies, 1998 15 x 10.5cm, 12pp plus white card covers. Artist's book with four reproduced b/w line drawings and text in French from a lecture by Gette. One of 1,200 copies. VG+.
£40.00
NYMPHAEUM. 1993.
Zurich: Oktagon, 1993 14.5 x 10cm, 76pp. Printed pink boards with an b/w image of a pair of panties and a flower. Internally there are c. 60 colour images of flowers, nudes, women and girls' underwear. VG+.
£45.00
P. A. GETTE. 1968. ONE OF ONLY 50 SIGNED & NUMBERED COPIES WITH SIGNED & NUMBERED SILKSCREEN AND “MUSICAL SUPPLEMENT”
Malmö, Editions du Miroir, 1968 25 x 16.5cm, 20pp plus original wrappers. Artist’s book which consists of 15 b/w images of early Gette sculptures (mostly based around letters and typography). Additionally there is a 25 x 16.5cm, 1pp "musical supplement" by Jean-Claude Moineau printed on transparent paper and a 25 x 16.5cm 1pp monogrammed and numbered original silkscreen print by P. A. Gette. There is a short essay by Heidsieck to introduce the works. The book is additionally signed and numbered in ink by Bernard Heidsieck on the colophon page (nr 26) from the total edition of 50 copies. A very early Gette publication which has a b/w portrait of the artist as frontispiece. VG+.
£495.00
L’EXCURSION DU 14 FÉVRIER 1973. 1974. ONE OF ONLY 10 EXAMPLES WITH ORIGINAL UNIQUE PHOTOGRAPH & FIVE ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS. SIGNED & NUMBERED.
Liège: Yellow Now, 1974 19 x 12.5cm, 20pp plus card covers. Artist’s book documenting an early Gette excursion to Mont Rigi and Baroque Michel and other places in Belgium to investigate the landscape. The internal pages have five original small b/w silver gelatine photographs of grasses and other vegetation tipped on with legends. Additionally this is one of only 10 copies on Hollande Van Gelder which has an additional original b/w silver gelatine photograph as frontispiece (mounted on thicker card). The signatures are unbound in the wrappers. The book is signed and numbered “5" in pencil by Gette on the colophon page. There were 67 other copies of the book but unsigned and without the original unique photograph. Clearly rare. VG+.
£600.00
MISCELLANEA BOTANICA. PARIS/ AMSTERDAM/LONDRE/COPENHAGUE CONTRIBUTION A L’ETUDE DES LIEUX RESTRAINTS PAR PAUL-ARMAND GETTE. 1995. ONE OF 115 SIGNED & NUMBERED EXAMPLES.
Liège: Yellow Now, 1975 19 x 12.5cm, 20pp plus wrappers. Artist’s book documenting which lists the various plants that Gette has encountered in the four cities - Paris,, London and Copenhagen. Additionally there is a frontispiece of a b/w image of a plant. INSERT: 19 x 12.5cm, 1pp facsimile text by get in his handwriting of the list regarding Amsterdam. This is one of only 125 pencil. signed and numbered copies (Nr 18). VG+.
£295.00
LE LAC. RINGSJÖN. CONTRIBUTION À L’ÉTUDE DES LIEUX RESTREINTS. 1976. ONE OF 20 WITH AN ORIGINAL ANNOTATED PHOTOGRAPH. SIGNED & NUMBERED.
Liège, Yellow Now, 1976 13 x 19,5 cm, 14pp plus card covers. Artist’s book which investigates the flora and fauna around a lake in Sweden (Ringsjön). The book consists of 7 b/w images of the lake, insects and vegetation with legends as to location. This is one of 20 deluxe copies (aside from another 230 numbered copies) which has an original 9 x 12.4cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print (which has been annotated in red felt pen as 1 m square) showing a measured out 1m square where Gette investigated what might be found within the boundary of the area. The book is signed and numbered 17 in pencil by Gette on the colophon page. Clearly rare. VG+.
£495.00