KING FOR A DAY PIECE WITH ORIGINAL ARTWORK & PERFORMANCE RELIC. 1972.

London: Situation Publications, 1972.

A 25 x 18 cm, unpaginated exhibition catalogue (for the Tate Gallery retrospective "King for a Day Piece") which is covered in black paper and sealed at front with a printed baggage label stapled to front cover. Loosely inserted into the package is an original unique pencil and coloured crayon drawing by Bruce Maclean on torn jotter paper , executed at the exhibition. Equally one of the internal pages has a reproduction of a photograph of a MacLean performance taking a string for a walk which has stapled to it a piece of the “walkeD”string. Thus a unique book multiple.

The closure label here has been peeled back to allow the book to be opened without any damage but strangely there is a small ragged paper loss above this (c. 4c x 0.6cm) and other what seem to be teeth marks (animal / dog?) to the black wrappers but the drawing is also heavily browned to the top – we have priced this to reflect these flaws.