PAYMENT
We currently process orders online by PayPal. You do not need to have a PayPal account for your card to be processed securely.

If you would prefer to pay by Bank Transfer (for orders over £500 only), please place the order online and we will contact you to complete the transaction and issue an invoice if required.

SHIPPING
We aim to dispatch all orders within 24 to 48 hours.

We prefer to use Royal Mail “Signed and Tracked“ option where possible but for some larger or more valuable items we may insist on using direct priority couriers.

We charge flat rate shipping ( up to a certain weight or value) based on three zones:

£15
United Kingdom

£25
Europe and USA and Canada


£45
Rest of the World including Asia and South America


If your order contains only items listed under Cards & Ephemera the following discounted rates apply:

£7
United Kingdom

£18
Europe and USA and Canada


£20
Rest of the World including Asia and South America


PACKING
We try to keep costs down and we are also aware of the effects of packing on the environment.

Where possible we try to recycle packaging materials. If you require new pristine packing boxes/envelopes (say for a gift) then please let us know.

Large posters are usually rolled and sent in firm tubes - if you require flat packing for any large item then please let us know on ordering:in such cases, there may be a surcharge to cover the extra costs.

Other items are send in appropriate packaging.

INSURANCE
We will cover all shipments with full loss insurance up to £250. Thereafter a surcharge is needed.

We will consider sending items without full insurance but this is at the purchaser’s decision and risk. If you wish us to do this then please indicate in writing what you want us to do.





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.

We trade almost entirely online - we purchase new material all the time and offer regular clients email lists (which you can sign up to here) of new arrivals. Soon after the distribution of those lists, new items are placed online so it is worth returning regularly to this site to see what new things are for sale.

It may be possible to visit in person and see our inventory but that is by appointment only - please email us. We can supply references for new clients should that be required.

We are always looking for new material to add to our stocks - we have a desiderata here but we are interested in all material that is similar to our core interests. Do get in touch.
ANY QUESTIONS OR TO ARRANGE A VISIT:






UNORIGINAL SINS
Eals Farm
Eals
Brampton
CA8 7PG


mail@unoriginalsins.com

UN POING… C’EST TOUT. 2012.

Limoges: Centre des livres d'artistes, 2012 9 x 6 x 6cm, white cardboard box with printed label content of a 6 x 4 x 2.5cm (approx) hand moulded piece of dry clay that shows the artist's fingermarks from where he has pressed it into the shape within his fist (the title translates as "A fist... that is all". It is signed P.A.G. on the back. As with many of Gette's works this emphasises the importance of touch in his work. An unlimited edition supposedly. VG+ in like box.

£75.00

DE LA PEGMATITE A LA PORCELAINE OU LA COLERE DES NYMPHES. 2012.

N.p. (Paris): Eter Sdf, 2012 21 x 15cm, 4pp (self cover). Artist's book with a text by Gette about a porcelain jar being thrown out of a window and smashed in the famous village Saint-Yrieix-La-Perche where kaoline was first found in France. Two images - one of a Amandine defenstrating the jug and another of smashed porcelain next to a quarried stone. VG+.

£35.00

DES CALCINATIONS AU JAUNE DE NAPLES. 2013.

Paris: Galerie Jean Brolly, 2013 21 x 10.5cm, 4pp. Announcement card with double inner page image of the artist's hand squeezing a tube of Naples Yellow paint. VG+.

£15.00

& 2014. 2013.

N.p. (Paris): s.p. (Gette), 2013 16 x 14.8cm, 4pp. Christmas and new year card designed by Gette with a photograph by the artist of a seascape on the front. A text on the back notes that the water surface is affected by the swimmer who has just passed much like the old year and the ampersand before the new year date reminds one of the contortions of such a person. Inside there is a handwritten and signed note by Gette wishing a good new year.

£30.00

CHAMBRE DE CONTEMPLATION. 2014.

Paris: Le Studiolo, 2014 21 x 15cm, 8pp (single folded sheet). Announcement and small poster which opens to a text Me voici dans mon petit pays ou je me plais beaucoups car il est entoure de grandes forets de pins" which translates to "Here I am in my small country which I really like because it is surrounded by large pine forests ". VG+.

£25.00

EH BIEN VOILA! HOMMAGE A BERNARD HEIDSIECK. 2015.

Paris: Galerie Jean Brolly, 2015 16.5 x 12.5cm, 4pp. Announcement for an event in homage to Bernard Heidsieck where Gette read texts he prepared for the evening. One image in b/w of Heidsieck. VG+>

£25.00

VERSATION (CON). 2015. ARTIST’S BOOK IN MATCHBOX.

Elne: Voixeditions, 2015 5 x 3.5 x 1.2cm, two part matchbox with printed outer part and the inner box has a tipped on concertina folded insert (20 sections each of 4.7 x 3.3cm) which reproduces a discussion between Gette and Tenebria Lupa as well as one colour image of the artist's 0m logo. An unusual format of artist's book cum object multiple. VG+. Scarce,

£40.00

LES PLAISIRS DE LA SEDIMENTOLOGIE. 2016. ONE OF TWENTY HC COPIES SIGNED BY GETTE WITH ORIGINAL COLOURED DRAWING.

Paris: Yvon Lambert, 2016 17 x 11.8cm, 20pp plus card covers and printed dustjacket. The full title translates to "The pleasures of sedimentology or From the erratic block to the souvenir pebble". Artist's book with 10 b/w and colour photographs which combine the female form with stones and pebbles. There is also a short interview with Gette at the front. This is one of 20 signed and roman numbered HC examples with an original 17 x 11.7cm red, purple and black signed drawing on paper inserted into the cover flap aside from a total run of 120 (some with a pebble included). Signed on the book colophon by Gette. VG+.

£125.00

TURKISH DELIGHTS. 2016.

Paris: Le Studiolo, 2016<BR> 25 x 19cm, 10pp (single sheet folded) with 9 full sheet colour images of drawings and a short interview with Gette. Rather nice if small. VG+.<BR> JOINT:<BR> Paris: Le Studiolo, 2016<BR> 25 x 19cm, 1pp. Printed red on transparent paper - announcement card cum leaflet. VG+.<BR><BR>

£30.00

L’AURORE SE LEVE. 2016.

Sete: Centre Regional d'Art Contemporain, 2016 21 x 10cm, 2pp. Announcement leaflet for a public "celebration" (with Enna Chaton) by Gette as part of the exhibition Athanor. One appropriated colour image of a medieval illustration. VG+.

£10.00

L’ELARGISSEMENT DES FANTASMES. 2017.

Paris: Maelle Galerie, 2017 21 x 15cm, 2pp. Announcement leaflet for a group exhibition which includes Gette. His work Le Soulagement d'Artemis from 2001 - a "melting" moon symbol in a tree trunk is reproduced on the front in colour. Verso a text on the exhibition and gallery details. VG+.

£15.00

AURORA CONSURGENS! 2017. ONE OF TWENTY SIGNED & NUMBERED COPIES WITH ORIGINAL COLOUR DRAWING ALSO SIGNED.

Paris: Yvon Lambert, 2017 17 x 12cm, 20pp plus card covers and yellow dustjacket. Twelve colour images of performances and photographs by Gette with something of a fascination with female urination. This is one of twenty roman numbered examples (aside from the total edition of 150 copies) which are signed by Gette and has inserted an original signed drawing in black ink, and with yellow and red of a pissing woman in close up. VG+.

£375.00

UN PARCOURS ALICIEN. 2017.

Paris: Manuellas Editions, 2017 20.4 x 14cm, unpaginated (60pp) plus card covers. Artist's book with a text by Gette on Alice in Wonderland followed by 21 b/w and colour photographic images of the artist as a young man and others taken by Gette of the landscape, flowers and young women.

£35.00

UN PARCOURS ALICIEN. 2017.

Paris: Musee d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2017 15 x 10.5cm, 1pp. Typographic announcement card. VG+.

£15.00

DU CORPS DE LA LETTRE A CELUI DE LA NYMPHE. 2019.

Paris: Galerie Jean Bollery, 2019<BR> 21 x 15cm, 16pp plus pink wrappers. A printing of the lecture given by Paul-Armand Gette and with a celebration by Wenjue Zhang and Jean Brolly. Six colour illustrations including three photographs by Gette. VG+.<BR><BR>

£20.00

GWENHWYFAR’S BOX. 2019.

Temple: Show and Tell Ediions/Unorignal Sins, 2019<BR> 13.5 x 8 x 9.3cm, two part black plastic box with label. Inside the box is a rough chunk of volcanic rock from Edinburgh's Arthur's Seat, a pair of small size pink women's panties which are wrapped around the rock and an original signed drawing pasted to the bottom of the box by Paul-Armand Gette of a volcano/vulva. The inner box lid has a label signed and numbered by Gette in pencil. One of ONLY 15 numbered and signed boxes. Released on the occasion of '"What Volcano?" said the King.' Gette's only ever Scottish solo exhibition at Lust & The Apple Gallery, Temple, Scotland in March 2019. Gwenhwyfar was, of course, the Welsh name of King Arthur's wife Guinevere.  A statement on lust, sexuality and the limitaitons of old age. Fine condition.<BR><BR>

£125.00

WHAT VOLCANO? SAID THE KING. 2019. UNIQUE INSTALLATION.

Unique installation work - dimensions vary depending on wall size. The work consists of an instruction drawing and an original large (80 x 50 x 60cm) volcanic stone sourced from the extinct Arthur's Seat volcano. The drawing consists of two arcing lines left and right of the stone and a red flare above it - the whole being a visual pun on the feminine genitals. The work was first exhibited at Lust & the Apple gallery in Temple, Scotland in 2018. The work comes with a signed certificate by Gette.<BR><BR> Price on application

Shopping cart0
There are no products in the cart!
Continue shopping