34.5 x 25 cm, pagination varies, 34 different numbers (including 3 double issues - nrs 21/22. 23/24, 32/33 and special nr 12 bis) plus nr 39. All = 85. A continuous early run of this important art journal that was initiated from Stephane Elizabeth from her  Galerie les Contemporains, along with her son Stepháne and daughter Anne-Marie.  The first issue (included here) was published on the occasion of the Düsseldorf Art Fair in October 1973. Contributions are from by Jospeh Beuys (2 covers), Marcel Broodthaers (3 covers), André Cadere, Charlier, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Anne and Patrick Poirier, Ulay & Marina Abramovic, Ian Hamilton Finlay and others.

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Paris: Elisabeth, Stepháne & Anne-Marie Rona. 1973 - 1981

NR 39, 34.5 x 25 cm, 48pp.

Very slight marking / browning on the odd issue but overall VG++.

Early numbers of this journal are hard to find and this early run is not available elsewhere that we know of.

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80 x 60 cm, full colour silkscreen displaying a photographic self-portrait of Abramovic taken from above. This is one of only 150 signed and numbered examples which were mostly not available for sale but donated by the artist to museums. VG+.

32 x 23 x 5cm red cardboard clamshell box content of c. 60 unnumbered and unbound sheets including one object multiple (a plastic bottle with printed label). Silver ribbon. A supposed "exhibition in a box" with reproduced and original contributions by Tinkerbell, Marina Abramovic, Ay-o, Matthew Barney, Tracey Emin, Valie Export, AL Hansen, ALison Knowles, Shigeko Kubota, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Pieter Mol, Charlotte Moorman and NAm June Paik, Otto Muehl, Orlan, Willem De Ridder, Niki de Saint Phalle, Carolee Schneemann, AndresSerrano, Annie Sprinkle, Ulay, Ben Vautier and others. The plastic bottle (meant to contain sanitiser gel) is by Marco Tiberio. One of 25 "silver" examples which were announced as being numbered but we cannot find any numbering in the box. Near fine.

29.5 x 21cm, red and black screenprint of a drawing by Abramovic based on her left hand and an outline face and text. This is one of three related screenprints issued by the artist as part of a fundraising effort for CIRCA's art programme and released on Valentine's Day 2024. The print is accompanied by a hand signed (by the artist) and numbered 15 x 21cm, 2pp postcard acting as a certificate of authenticity. xThe work sold out immediately on release once the time-limited period ended. Both card and print are VG++.

10.8 x 15cm, white on red outer one part folder content of nine 10.5 x 14.8cm, 2pp b/w postcards (all conjoined from a single serrated sheet) which open out to a cross shape. This edition is based on the large work Four Crosses: The Good (positive) which was the final work on display at the artist's major retrospective in London, 2023. All VG+.

30. 5 x 23cm, 440pp plus boards with tipped on photograph. The deluxe edition of this pictorial biography that covers the entire life of the performance artist from 1946 to the present day. B/w and colour images throughout with a text by Katya Tylevich who gets short interview replies from Abramovic. This is one of a small number of signed copies (on the first blank page in black felt tipped pen) which went out of print almost immediately on release. VG+.

15 x 10.5cm, 12pp plus card covers. The museum handout for the major retrospective in London. The text is a chronology of the artist's activities from 1946 to 2023. One b/w portrait of the artist. VG+.

6cm dia. plastic, metal and paper lapel badge with the title text "THE SPIRIT IN ANY CONDITION DOES NOT BURN" published for the artist's major retrospective in London. VG+.

Two sheets - one 30 x 21cm, 1pp with a text explaining the work where Ulay and Abramovic (both naked) ran into each other repeatedly for an hour and noting the performance later being shown as a 58 minute video work.

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21 x 390cm, 2pp leaflet printed black on cream showing one full sheet still-photograph from the work and another from an installation at "De Appel" in Amsterdam in 1979.

Both VG+. Scarce.

30 x 21cm, 4pp brochure printed blue on white - with a full page advert for a jazz concert with Corsin Fontana, Niggi Hasenbohler, Also Solari, Werner Lehmann, Lukas Moeschlin and Alberto Rainolter on the front, internally images of an exhibition by Fonata, Bohler and Solari. On the back sheet however there is an announcement for Performance 3 by Ulay and Abromovic with a photograph of the two artists trying to crawl near a venomous snake. Folded for storage and with 6 punched holes on the left for storage else VG.

21 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card for a performance and exhibition by Abromovic staged for her 50th birthday. The artist danced an Argentine tango at the opening with her dance partner Jan Hoet. Others were then invited to join in.

"Dress code for dancers: Gentlemen: Black tie, Brilliantine, Ladies: Evening dress, all colours except red!"

One b/w image of the artists practicing on the front, verso museum details. VG+.