14.5 x 22.8cm, black and green offset letterhead created for the vastly important "First World Congress of Free Artists" which brought together Enrico Baj, Jacques Calonne, Constant, Giuseppe Pinot Gallizio, Asger Jorn, Piero Simondo, Ettore Sottsass Jr, Elena Verrone (from the International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus), Gil J. Wolman (from the Lettrist International/Potlatch), Sandro Cherchi, Franco Garelli  , Jan Kotik, Pravoslav Rada (Czechoslovakia), Charles Estienne, and Klaus Fischer to discuss joint projects.

The importance of this meeting cannot be underwritten - it brought together many of the main currents of the European International Avant Garde and laid the foundations for the eventual formation of the International Situationists.

JOINT:

Alba: Laboratorio Sperimentale Del Movimento Internazionale Per Una " Bauhaus Immaginista", 1956

12.3 x 15.5cm, green and black on white printed envelope for the same event.

Price is for both items together - the stationery for a major landmark in European political and art history.

Both VG+ if mildly browned.

28 x 20cm, 2p, six colour offset photolithograph with a work by the Italian arte nuclear artist which was also the commissioned cover for the eighth edition of the magazine (which was nr 6). This is signed, numbered and entitled by the artist in pencil below the image and  overleaf a short text publisher. VG+ although on the reverse there is some minor paper scuffs at the top from prior paper hinges/framing. The eighth of the Bolaffi Arte prints.

14 x 10.5cm, 4pp - folded card with an offset self-portrait of the Italian former futurist. This is one of the works issued by the publishing house in a series entitled "La Collezione degli Autoritratti firmmati" in a large edition size of 5,000 numbered folded cards. Strangely given the edition size these are not encountered too often. The back of the card has a title adhesive sticker with the details of the work and the number. The work is signed in ink underneath the full colour self portrait. VG+.

26.5 x 21cm, 1pp mimeograph leaflet protesting the forced closure by the Venice mayoralty of Bertini's exhibition Le Pays Reel at Galerie Gritti after a single day of opening. The leaflet was published on the eve of the opening of 31st Venice Biennale and was signed by a large number of artist including Alain Jouffroy, Pierre Restany, Karel Appel, Enrico Baj, Arturo Schwarz, Ferro, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Paul Jenkins, Corneille and others. This has had two ring binder holes punched on the left where there is no text to allow storage else is VG+.

22 x 22cm, 4pp exhibition catalogue for a solo show with two texts in Dutch and French by Hans Sonnenberg and Gerald Gassoit-Talabot respectively and a portrait in b/w of the artist on the front with one of this works behind him. There are some surface scuffs here on the back cover that minorly affects a typographic design of the artist's name and inside on an unprinted area - else VG. Priced to reflect minor damage.

20.5 x 13.2cm, 24pp plus card covers. Short monograph on the early work o Gianni Bertini who initially identified as a supporter of art nuclear but later became close to Pierre Restany and the nouveau realistes although Bertini refused to sign the latter's defining manifesto as written by his friend Restany. The text byLambert is taken from an article in Mercure de France and has six b/w plates hors text of works and portraits of the artist (including his shocking "Le Striptease poetique"). Some light marking to the white outer wrappers else VG+.

21 x 15cm, 12pp plugs card covers. A poem in paris of Jarry and Ubu  illustrated with three images by Baj of the murderous king. One of 1,515 unnumbered copies relaxed. Slight mark on front cover from previous price list else VG+.

21 x 15cm, 4pp gallery brochure with texts in English, Italian and French listing the artists represented by Arturo Schwartz which include Enrico Baj, Roberto Crippa, Marcel Janco, Lucio Del Pezzo, Mario Persico, Marcel Duchamp Natalie Gontcharova, Michel Larionov, Takis, Jean TInguely. VG+.

30.8 x 22cm, 8pp plus original wrappers. Exhibition catalogue for this Italian exhibition of works by the Arte Nucleare movement which, at the time of publication, was at the height of its influence. There are 12 b/w illustrations of paintings from the group and amidst the others and a solitary 2-colour (blue and black) reproduction of one of Klein's paintings. Manzoni's post-surrealist "hominid" painting is another interesting work as is Jorn's pre-&"Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus" painting which has all the hallmarks of his mature style.

There is an essay by the curator Giorgio Kaisserlain who welcomes Manzoni as the youngest and newest adherent to the arte nucleare group and elsewhere a reprinting of Baj's original manifesto of 1952 (within a translated article by Jageur). Near fine. Very scarce.