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Fine multiple: a waxed paper plate screenprinted in colours after a striking design by Roy Lichtenstein, produced for photographer Bert Stern’s short lived On First boutique, Manhattan, New York, in an unknown number of copies, with details stamped on the back.
See Corlett's Prints of Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonne, 1948-1997, nr. III.45.
Postcard reproducing Lichtenstein's 1968 painting Preparedness, a wall-size painting that suggests the work of Fernand Léger and the WPA artists of the 1930s.
This fine card has been delicately SIGNED BY ROY LICHTENSTEIN in black felt-tip pen in the blank space underneath the image.
Fine early catalogue issued on occasion of an exhibition at the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, printed on white and pink paper in typical 1960's style after a design by Wim Crouwel.
Texts in Dutch and English, plates in b/w and colour, the famous triptych "As I opened fire" printed as a gatefold in colour.
Most copies of this vulnerable catalogue tend to fall apart; this copy is in great condition.
Finely designed monograph on the British Pop Artist (top-shelf magazine meets fine art [...] through a world of Mattesean colour), issued as a paperback in pictorial wrappers with additional stiff paper dustjacket.
Postcard reproducing Allen Jones' 1966/1967 painting Perfect Match, a 9 foot high figure consisting of 3 canvases.
The card has SIGNED BY ALLEN JONES in black feltpen.
Fine offsetposter on heavy paper reproducing Richard Hamilton's work How A Great Daily Organ Is Turned Out, an etching/engraving created that same year.
Poster in mint condition, finely SIGNED BY RICHARD HAMILTON, the pioneer of British Pop Art, in black felt tip pen underneath the image.
A selection (by the artist and Emmett Williams) of texts, graphic materials and photographs by Robert R. McElroy from the period 1961-1962.
A very fine copy with unclipped dustjacket, complete with the rare The Store BUSINESS CARD in a glassine envelop affixed to the first fly leaf, as issued.
Very fine copy of the English edition this “first definitive guide to the Art of the Psychedelic era”, published on ocaccsion of a touring exhibition which began at Tate Liverpool and then travelled to the USA, Gemany and Austria.
The German language edition is widely available, the UK edition is more difficult to find.
Exclusive early Dutch issue of Lennon's (in)famous Bag One, originally a series of erotic lithographs, intended as a wedding gift for Yoko Ono.
For the full (and complicated) story we refer to other sources available, this Dutch (contemporary) issue contains the works in offset in reduced size, 51 x 37 cm.
Complete, but the vulnerable white portfolio shows some wear along the edges, a few damp stains on the back.
A small and rather rare booklet; the catalogue for an exhibition of Lennon's Bag One series in Amsterdam, February 1970.
All images are reproduced in heavily reduced size.
Piece of roughly cut beige cardboard, 15 x 12 cm, EMBELLISHED BY HAND in black feltpen by JOHN LENNON.
The scrap shows the handwritten text LOVE, JOHN LENNON 78 plus an original self caricature.
PROVENANCE:
Made by John Lennon in Rupert Jasen Smith’s studio, Soho, New York, around Christmas time 1978.
Rupert Jasen Smith (also Andy Warhol’s master silkscreen printer from 1974 until the artist’s death in 1987) was working on a project called Yoko as Mona Lisa, an exclusive silkscreen created by John Lennon, a work not commonly known as there were just a handful of copies made as a present for his wife Yoko Ono.
John Lennon was there to supervise the final printing and while waiting for the results he killed time by making silly texts, doodles and drawings on any material on hand, like scraps of paper, pieces of cardboard, paper bags and even porcelain plates, encouraged by a third person who luckily happened to be at the right place at the right time.
A number of similar pieces made during this session were sold at succesful auctions in Tokyo (Bonham's 1997, catalogue available) and London (Christie's 2000 and 2002, catalogues still online).
Further details available on request.
Plain white ceramic plate EMBELLISHED BY HAND in black feltpen by JOHN LENNON.
The text on the upper rim reads LISTEN TO THIS PLATE (a reference to the 1974 Walls and Bridges publicity campaign), the middle shows an original self caricature which has been signed JOHN LENNON 78.
PROVENANCE:
Executed in Rupert Jasen Smith (Andy Warhol's printer)'s studio, Soho, New York, 1978.
See the first of the Lennon items on this page, further details available on request.
For a few more great John Lennon items, all with rock solid provenance, please visit our rock 'n roll pages.
Catalogue raisonné of Keith Haring's printed works, fully illustrated and with texts in English, French and German.
Catalogue raisonné of Keith Haring’s posters, fully illustrated and with texts in English and German.
Cheerful poster showing a design exclusively created by Keith Haring for a New York book event.
Very fine and clean copy dated (85) and SIGNED BY KEITH HARING in black feltpen, somewhere in the middle of the image.
Gundel / Von der Osten nr. 22 (full page illustration).
N.B.: NEW YORK IS BOOK COUNTRY was an annual literary Manhattan street fair, held between 1979 and 2010. Other artists who created posters for the event were Edward Gory, Maurice Sendak, Charles M. Schulz, Art Spiegelman and many others.
Set of two metal objects fabricated in Italy in 2003 after a design by Keith Haring, showing an engraved Haring Estate copyright mark: a dog-shaped paper weight (7,5 x 12 x 3 cm) and a clip (5,5 x 9 x 3 cm) with a similar design.
Both objects still packed in original, unopened card-backed blister packs (with traces of handling).
Various metal home office objects fabricated in Italy in 2003 after a design by Keith Haring, showing an engraved Haring Estate copyright mark.
A full set of 4 magnets, a set of 3 (of 4) bookmarks plus a circular plastic box containing 24 clips with dog-shaped ornaments.
All objects still packed in their original, unopened card-backed blister packs (size: 13 x 7 cm), with some traces of handling.
Recording by the Bielefeld surfpunk outfit The Astronauts, issued on occasion of a 2002 Jeff Koons exhibition in Bielefeld, Germany.
According to the text on the sleeve, this record is "Das Offiziele Absolut Nicht Offiziele Souvenir", issued in a limited edition of "only 43 copies".
Our copy is numbered 43, just like all the other copies we have seen.
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Italian artist and visual poet Gianni Bertini’s contribution for the second part of LA LUNE EN RODAGE, 1965, a deluxe artists portfolio issued by Carl Laszlo in a limited edition of 150 (plus 65 HC) copies.
This piece of orange card shows the screenprinted text “Bon gratuit pour un dessin original à retirer chez l'artiste” and has been SIGNED BY GIANNI BERTINI in black feltpen, as issued.
BERNARD BUFFET - signed card - 1990 - 60 euro
Folding card, ca. 15 x 10 cm, showing a reproduction of Bernard Buffet’s 1989 painting Deux Paradisiers on the front, SIGNED BY BERNARD BUFFET “Amicalement / Bernard Buffet” in black ink on the inside.
Fine publication, printed by Draeger Freres; one out of a series of superbly designed brochures issued by the French wine seller firm Nicolas; and the first of a small number designed by A.M. CASSANDRE (Adolphe Mouron, 1901-1968) one of the great graphic designers of the 20th century.
A very fine copy of this early Cassandre production, in typical Art Deco style, with only minor damage to the fragile spiralbound spine.
Bi-lingual edition (Dutch and French) of a number of poems by Dutch author Gerrit Kouwenaar, hand-printed in a limited edition of only 50 copies (plus 6 H.C.), all with a SIGNED ETCHING and an EMBOSSING by COBRA-artist CONSTANT [= Constant Nieuwenhuys].
All copies, printed on 230 grs Hahnemühle, were SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ARTIST in the colophon and come with a loosely added COLOUR ETCHING (sheet size 36 x 27 cm, image, size 14 x 18 cm) numbered and SIGNED by CONSTANT, one of the pages shows a embossed image of this fine etching.
Superb and delicate; mint in original white paper covered heavy card slipcase.
NB: The second collaboration between the two artists: in 1949 they created the book Goede Morgen Haan (Good morning, Rooster) one of the highlights in the field of Cobra publications.
As above.
The image shows Constant’s wonderful etching.
The Constant Foundation lists this etching, in combination with the embossing, as “The Chair [III]”. Versions [I] and [II] were published in 1971 in an edition of 20 and 200 copies respectively.
First day cover with a printed drawing by LUCEBERT in the left hand upper corner, with stamps designed after work by COBRA-artists Karel Appel, Constant and Corneille, issued on occasion of 40 years of COBRA.
SIGNED BY CORNEILLE in black ink.
One of 200 deluxe copies of this elaborately illustrated work on the Dutch branch of COBRA, published on occasion of the 50th birthday of the artist movement.
Deluxe copies were slipcased and contain a screenprint reproducing a 1948 lithograph by CORNEILLE, all SIGNED BY CORNEILLE.
As the print in this copy has been numbered 1/200, this is the FIRST copy from this fine edition.
You will find a few more items by CORNEILLE on the page devoted to Dutch and Flemish (book) art.
Fine black white photograph showing the great SALVADOR DALI making his entrance at Andy Warhol’s Factory, New York, 1966.
Printed in edition of 30 copies, 25 of which were incuded in DUCHAMP BY FINKELSTEIN (see below), this is one of the remaining 5 prints.
SIGNED BY NAT FINKELSTEIN in black feltpen on a sticker on the back.
He came in, unnoticed, and like a three-card-monte dealer moved to the periphery, where with pickpocket’s fingers he toyed with small objects so as to draw attention away from the more crowded couch area where the spotlight belonged [...]. He was a pro. - Nat Finkelstein.
Elaborate publication, issued in a limited edition of 20 copies (plus 3 HC plus 2 AP), containing 5 original b/w photographs, 18 x 24 cm, printed in Paris under the artist's supervision, each numbered and SIGNED BY NAT FINKELSTEIN and mounted in black cardboard.
The photographs, (all but one) shot at the Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, New York, 1966, show Andy Warhol, King of Pop Art, filming Marcel Duchamp, Godfather of Dada and Surrealism, a striking portrait of Salvador Dali visiting Warhol's Factory is added.
Also includes a copy of nr. 5 of the annual periodical Etant Donné Marcel Duchamp, which contains an illustrated account of the event, signed and appropiately inscribed by Mr. Finkelstein.
NB: DUCHAMP BY FINKELSTEIN was the third out of a series of three luxury collaborations between Nat Finkelstein (1933-2009) and AENIGMA books & prints).
It was published in an exclusively designed hand-crafted box, which also incudes a set of contact sheets showing ALL images of the legendary session, as well as a number of utterly surrealistic extra's...
From the introduction: “When I first received the e-mail from Étant Donné Marcel Duchamp requesting my cooperation with this issue, my reaction was: This is like asking me if I would cooperate with God.”- Nat Finkelstein, artist/photographer.
“When Nat Finkelstein phoned me, proposing to have a deluxe edition made of his photographs of Marcel Duchamp, my reaction was: This is like asking me if I would cooperate with the Devil.”- Eric Schneyderberg, publisher/designer.
Fine black white photograph showing MARCEL DUCHAMP at ease, posing for Andy Warhol, during the event Hommage à Caisse at the Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, New York, 1966.
Printed in edition of 30 copies, 25 of which were incuded in DUCHAMP BY FINKELSTEIN (see above), this is one of the remaining 5 prints.
SIGNED BY NAT FINKELSTEIN in black feltpen on a sticker on the back.
Warhol had brought his camera and he asked me to pose, on the single condition that I keep my mouth shut for twenty minutes - Marcel Duchamp.
Postcard reproducing the 1989 work Here and There, a hand-dyed gelatin silver print in 21 parts.
The card has been SIGNED BY GILBERT AND GEORGE in black ballpoint pen.
Small flipbook or Daumenkino, comprising black and white photographs of the artists, published in an edition of 800 copies, all SIGNED BY GILBERT AND GEORGE in red felt tip pen.
Silkscreened print showing an image of Swiss-Hungarian art dealer/collector/author/publisher Carl Laszlo, originally a pen and brush ink drawing used for the front of the programme of one of Laszlo's plays from 1960.
This rather untypical Hundertwasser image was reproduced in actual size in silkscreen as a contribution for the second part of LA LUNE EN RODAGE, 1965, a deluxe artists portfolio issued by Carl Laszlo in a limited edition of 150 (plus 65 HC) copies.
Most copies were hand stamped with a red Japanese character stamp, this print shows two of these stamps.
Unused copy of the exhaustive and fully illustrated catalogue raisonne of the celebrated painter’s work.
Near mint copy, complete with CD-rom and in original blank cardboard slipcase.
(TAMARA DE LEMPICKA) DIE DAME, Heft 24 - Berlin, Verlag Ullstein, 1928 - magazine in wrappers (design: TAMARA DE LEMPICKA) - 36 x 28 cm - 60 euro
Issue of the periodical DIE DAME, an "Illustrierte Mode-Zeitschrift“ published in Berlin, Germany, between 1911 and 1943.
The image on the front is by TAMARA DE LEMPICKA, this painting (titled En Plein Été) was especially created for this magazine.
Good copy, with some minor imperfections, spine strengthened with tape.
NB: In an early stage of her career Tamara de Lempicka made six of these paintings for Die Dame, they were reproduced on the covers in actual size.
Fine drawing in ink by COBRA-related author/artist Lucebert (L.J. Swaanswijk, 1924-1994), firmly signed 90 III 7 / LUCEBERT, vertically along the right hand side of the sheet.
This drawing - a typical one from the late period - was made on notebook paper, 27 x 21 cm, the two upper corners very lighty tipped on a sheet of black paper.
(ARISTIDE MAILLOL) Ursul Berger/Jorg Zutter - MAILLOL - Paris/Lausanne, Flammarion/Musée des Beaux Arts, 1996 - book in wrappers - 4to - 45 euro
Extensive publication on the French painter/sculptor/book illustator, issued on occasion of a traveling exhibition.
Texts in French, a splendid copy.
(NSK) NEUE SLOWENISCHE KUNST - Los Angeles, Amok books, 1991 - book in textured boards in slipcase - large 8vo - 65 euro
First edition (3000 copies) of this impressively designed work.
Publisher's info:
A full-color illustrated book documenting the controversial theories, statements, visual arts, music, film, video and theater work of the internationally acclaimed Slovenian arts collective from 1980 to 1989. NSK encompasses the innovative pop group Laibach, the IRWIN painter group and the Cosmokinetic Theater "Red Pilot," as well as philosophy, architecture, TV and motion picture departments.
Original pastel drawing by David Tibet, poet, artist and founder of Apocalytic Folk Outfit Current 93, executed on a sheet of black paper.
This piece has been titled APE OR MONKEY, dated and signed in red ink on a sticker pasted on the back.
NB: Compare THREE FACES OF PAN AS GOD, a triptych commissioned from David Tibet by Coil co-founder Jhonn Balance in 1993, as depicted an described in Tibet's privately published HOW I FLOWERED APOCALYPSE CARTOONS (2005), see below.
The drawing offered here was executed on the same day and completed in the same style, including the signed and dated sticker on the back.
Bookpage from the publication mentioned above, showing the tryptich THREE FACES OF PAN AS GOD; click here for a pdf of the full booklet.
Original pastel drawing by David Tibet, poet, artist and founder of Apocalytic Folk Outfit Current 93, executed on a sheet of black paper.
This piece, executed in the same period as the work listed above, remained unsigned, but it's David Tibet all over!
Original pastel drawing on black paper: the ORIGINAL DESIGN used for the cover of CALLING FOR VANISHED FACES, a 1999 compilation album by Current 93, the Apocalyptic Folk Outfit founded by David Tibet in 1984.
The sheet has been titled and signed by David Tibet in golden ink on the upper right hand corner.
A wonderful piece of outsider art, unfortunately with some damage in the left hand upper corner (not affecting the image!).
We add a copy of the CD, the album was never issued on vinyl.
More great items by David Tibet (= David Michael Bunting) on our pages devoted to music books and memorabilia.
Fine lithograph, printed by Atelier Mathieu, Zürich on Rives BFK in a limited edition of only 200 copies, all NUMBERED AND SIGNED BY PETER PHILLIPS in pencil.
This is one out of a series of 28 art posters specially created for the 1972 Olympic Games.
These posters were printed in various qualities and editions, this is the rare larger sized SIGNED DELUXE version on heavy paper, with parts of the image superbly embossed.
Other artist (28!) involved in this project were Adami, Albers, Chillida, Hockney, Hundertwasser, Jones, Kitaj, Poliakoff, Vasarely, Wesselmann and others.
Postcard reproducing Polke's 1968 painting Reiherbild II, (rather vaguely) SIGNED BY SIGMAR POLKE in black sharpie.
"...known for his multi-layered works that drew from found images, photography, and abstraction, work that itself was built on the innovations of American Pop Art. [...] he was considered at his death one of the foremost painters of his generation" - Getty record.
Monochrome reproductions in photogravure of 100 works of art which were exposed during the famous Paris Salon of 1890, with comments by art critic Armand Dayot.
Artists included are Jean BERAUD, Giovanni BOLDINI, Emile FRIANT, Jean-Leon GEROME, Leon Augustin LHERMITTE, Pierre PUVIS DE CHAVANNES, Georges ROCHEGROSSE and many others of lesser fame.
Out of the 616 deluxe copies printed for the CERCLE DE LA LIBRAIRIE, this is one of only 16 on Japanese paper and one of only 12 with an extra suite of 24 of the plates "avant la lettre".
Impressive work in a sturdy contemporary morocco binding made by ZAEHNSDORf: full blue calf, sparsely but tastefully gilt, the suite placed in a gilt morrocco-lined compartment that has been skilfully incorporated in the back of the (blemished) binding.
Curiously enough the gilt spine reads Salon de 1891.
Elaborate publication, issued in a limited edition of 500 copies, comprising a signed copy of the trade edition of the book Taken by Storm (London, Omnibus Press) finely bound in embossed full PURPLE LEATHER and with a unique photograph inset on front and back; a small monograph; a notebook of unseen ideas; set of postcards; set of greeting cards; pack of playing cards; etc. etc.
Also added are FOUR SILKSCREENED PRINTS in colour, measuring 40 x 30 cm, each numbered and SIGNED by Thorgerson.
All contents mint in a big sturdy grey cloth-covered box (30 x 30 x 40 cm) with drawers, in original shipping box.
For a detailed description with lots of images of this great item we refer to these pages on the publisher’s website.
Artists’ book, issued on occasion of an exhibition in a limited edition of 1000 numbered copies, all SIGNED BY ROSEMARIE TROCKEL.
Fine and extensive work on the ever amazing fluxus-artist BEN VAUTIER, published on occasion of an exhibition.
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