29 Apr

Posted at 18:56h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1970s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Dusseldorf, Gerry Schum, 1970 16 x 9cm, 2pp. Announcement card for release of the video edition of the famous work by Beuys that was originally broadcast as part of the Schum intervention into public television. The film was the Eurasienstab performance at the Wide White Space in 1968 produced in only 180 examples and sold for 1,500 DM at the time. The card also notes the multiple FILZ-TV which was released in 1970 in only 6 examples. The front of the card is a b/w still from the video. This is a mailed example which was sent to Henk Peeters. VG+....

19 Nov

Posted at 21:57h in James Lee Byars

Los Angeles: Eugenia Butler Gallery, 1969 16cm dia, pentagon shaped gold card with the text printed offset in red: "This is the Ghost of James Lee Byars Calling. 615 N. La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.”. The famous performance in the conceptual art gallery. This example has a short handwitten note by Byars in red pen on the reverse - " First meeting with RobbeGrillet (next word hard to read) phone silence". Presumably referring to the French cineast. Scarce....

17 Nov

Posted at 17:06h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Paris: Edition Givaudon, 1969
18 x 29 x 0.4cm, deliberately tarnished and rusted metal outer box with silkscreen printed front (showing the supposed artist's "carte sanitaire" (health card) which is also the first page of the artist's book). The box contains the original artist's book - Boltanski's second - which is 17.5 x 28cm, 6pp offset (although designed to look like a photocopy with blurred, polarised photographs) and an unprinted blue protective front sheet.
The book/collection of sheets describes a fictitious accident which supposedly took place at the Boulevard Carnot and Avenue Jean Jaures (however the modern Paris seems not to have the Avenue anymore but one can find the location by following the Boulevard Carnot on Google street view and comparing Boltanski's photographs).
As with much of early Boltanski's work he is an unreliable narrator - the images and stories in his books and descriptions are not necessarily true and it is difficult to tease out reality from re-creation but then that is the point - history is not accurate, it is always mediated through human memory, frailties and biases.
This is a deluxe copy of the book - it has an original photographic portrait of the "dead" Boltanski on the 18 Novembre 1969 which is signed and numbered by the "dead" artist from an edition of 20 copies - a miracle in itself! All are fine in like rusty slipcase.
This deluxe version of the work is not mentioned in any catalogue raisonne or in the literature. When asked about it (by Paul Robertson) Boltanski remembered the work but no longer had a copy for himself in this deluxe format. A major rarity.

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10 Oct

Posted at 18:05h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Paris: American Center for Students and Artists, October 1969
18 x 28cm, 42pp (mostly printed one side only) plus rubber stamped card covers. Slide binder. The first edition of an assemblage group artist's book with original contributions by Boltanski, Paul-Armand Gette, Jean Le Gac (here Le Gag!), Gine Pane, Ben Vautier, Andre Cadere, Alain Kirili, and Eric Dietman as well as others.
Boltanski's work is a photograph and text showing a supposed 13 of 1,000 roses planted at the American centre on 9th of October 1969 by Boltanski, the other 987, it is claimed, will be planted in Dijon on 20th of November 1969. These claims are probably spurious.
The other contributions are significant and some copies were signed and numbered by Dietman but this is not one of them.
This example is in very good condition and the book is very rare. It is not mentioned to our knowledge in any Boltanski catalogue raisonne.

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04 Oct

Posted at 09:32h in Joseph Beuys Artists' Cards, Joseph Beuys Cards 1960s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Heidelberg: Edition Tangent, 1969
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp offset. A printed edition in the form of an artist's postcard - this example being signed and hand addressed by Beuys with lengthy signed note to Dieter Schnebel - stamped three times on the front of the card in different colours - red, blue and dark blue. Unique thus.

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17 Aug

Posted at 18:14h in James Lee Byars

Antwerpen: Wide White Space, 1969<BR> 28 x 21.4cm, 1pp black on pink paper. A single offprinted sheet (not cut out) of a page from Byars' first ever book (1,000,000 minutes or the big sample of Byars or 1/2 an autobiography or the first paper of philosophy) with the title text "Baby Baudelaire" in the artist's facsimile hand. Folded and sent out by the Wide White Space gallery presumably to promote the book. Not found in any Byars reference. VG+. JOINT: Antwerpen: Wide White Space, 1969<BR> 12.5 x 15.5cm, white printed envelope with the address of the gallery top right on the front. This is a hand-written and franked item but in VG+ condition although there are two tiny holes for a past staple apparent at the top. Scarce if admittedly entirely ephemeral....

16 May

Posted at 15:09h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1960s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Heidelberg: Intermedia '69, 1969 21 x 10cm, 6pp (single folded card) - the announcement and programme for the important art event where Beuys and Christiansen performed "Veranderungkonzert" (Change Concert)on the opening day at 8.30pm. Other happenings, films and performances by Spoeeri, Vautier, Lebel, Roth, Albrecht, Pistoletto, Christo, Brehmer, Rinke, and others. Typographic design apart from front cover. VG+. Very scarce documentation....

19 Feb

Posted at 15:30h in Page Works & Contributions

London: Studio International, 1969
31 x 24cm, 104pp plus card covers. Single number of this important and long running art journal which a 4pp article - Ian Hamilton Finlay - the structure of a poetic universe by Stephen Bann. Six works in b/w reproduced. Binding a bit loose else VG+.

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25 Dec

Posted at 21:53h in Prints + Posters

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1968 45.9 × 52cm, yellow and black on white silkscreen. A collaboration with the well known British pop artist Caulfield in the latter's bold, thick out-llined style. Four lemons are in a bowl, and the word MARINE is next to the bowl seemingly on a piece of wood or card (possibly a fisherman's slip used to identify who owned what fish boxes when the catch went to market).
In a number of different works, Finlay often compares lemons to boats - so this is on one level a scene of a harbour: the lemons are made even more obviously to represent boats as they each has port registration numbers on them.,
The edition size is not known. All copies of the print are unsigned (which was Finlay's preference but a little unusual for the pop artist). There are some scuffs on the black of this silkscreen but else VG. This is a very rare print - partly for the later popularity of Caulfield.
JOINT:
15 x 21cm, 1pp. Printed compliments slip "Marine: Ian Hamilton Finlay:drawn by Patrick Caulfield" and with added hand written note: "Love from Ian, 4 January 1969". Perhaps might be regarded in lieu of a signature.
BR> MEDIUM Screenprint on paper DIMENSIONS Image: ...

14 Dec

Posted at 08:49h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1960s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Koln: Art Intermedia, 1969
14.5 x 21cm, 4pp gatefold card. Announcement for a solo show of early works (drawings and sculptures) by Beuys from the period 1947 to 1957. A text on Beuys by Per Kirkeby is found on the back of the card. Slight brown marks (nascent foxing perhaps) on the front of the card else VG+.
JOINT:
Koln: Art Intermedia, 1969
16 x 22.5cm, printed mailing envelope with a text from the gallery on the front and on the back "details" of the various events in the gallery for December 1968 (really a newsletter. Some wear from the mailing process and a hand addressed example.

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