205 x 26cm, 233pp plus original card covers. , Exhibition catalogue of post-World War II multiples and works in editions, including prints, posters, sculpture, artists' books, etc., by European and American artists.

There were 509 works exhibited in this huge and important show.

Foreword and introduction by Gert von der Osten; essays by Erhard Kästner, Horst Keller, Karl Gerstner, Willi Bongard, Othmar Metzger and Hein Stanke and biographical notes on the artists. Text in German.

Included are von Agam, Albers, Alechinsky, Antes, Appel, Arp, Baumeister, Bellmer, Beuys, Braque, Chagall, , Christo, Dine, Dubuffet, Duchamp, Ernst, Esteve, Faßbender, Francis, Fruhtrunk, Geiger, Giacometti, Grieshaber, Hamilton, Hartung, Hockney, Johns, Jones, Jorn, Leger, Lichtenstein, Matta, Matisse, Miro, Nay, Nevelson, Newman, Oldenburg, Picasso, Pollock, Rauschenberg, Man Ray, Rot, Soto, Soulages, Stella, Tapies, Tinguely, Warhol and Wols.

A VG example. 

21cm. sq. 66pp. 50 b/w reproductions. Wrappers. First edition of this Situationist-period catalogue of works by Jorn. Texts by Yvon Taillandier, Jacques Prevert & Rene Bertele: The texts by Prevert (two) date from 1957-58. Some minor rubbing to spine and extremities.

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.

15 x 11.4cm, 8pp announcement brochure for this series of Cobra related events which we understand never actually took place. Jorn, Dotremont, Alechinsky, Pedersen, Atlan, Constant, Corneille, Svanberg, Bury, Havrenne, and others were all meant to perforim or attend openings. Fine.

18.5 x 12.2cm, 48pp plus card covers. A reprinting of the manifesto written by Dotremont in 1949 for the exhibition internationale d'art experimental at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. There are three reproduced drawings by Jorn hors text. An uncut near fine example.

21 x 10cm, 12pp (single folded sheet). Exhibition handout/brochure for an exhibition of abstract and expressionist paintings from the Otto Van de Loo collection. Twelve works reproduced in colour by Appel, Constant, Vostell, Jorn, Dubuffet, Tapies, Rainier, Alechinsky, Zimmer, Sturm and others with a text in German. VG+.

15 x 21cm, 4pp announcement card for a posthumous solo show from the CoBrA artist with one editined work ("Funkelbust auf gruner Ebene" from 1970) in colour on the front . Unmailed - VG+.

10 x 21cm, 2pp typographic design announcement card for a posthumous show of paintings and sculptures by Jorn. A mailed copy with typed address and frank - but VG.

10.5 x 15cm, 2pp typographic design announcement card for a show displaying the work of Kirkeby and Jorn who died back in 1973. VG+ - unmailed.

21 x 10cm, 6pp exhibition brochure for a show relating Jorn's artistic and political activities to the German artistic collaboration between Heimrad Prem, Helmut Sturm, and Hans-Peter Zimmer, and the sculptor Lothar Fischer who called themselves Group Spur. Short text in German and one b/w portraits of Jorn and another of the SPUR activists. VG+.

10.5 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card for a solo museum show from the CoBrA artist with one work ("Lettre a mon fils" from 1956) in colour on the front. Unmailed - VG+.

21 x 15cm, 4pp announcement card for a solo show from the CoBrA artist with one work ("Die zwei Elemente" from 1970) in colour on the front . Closed tear along fold at bottom of card (4cm) else VG.