PIETER LAURENS MOL, This paper is yours, this is mine, 1974
43 x 29,5 cm / 30 x 4,2 cm (diameter)
punched sheet of thin paper (40 gr/m2), cardboard tube, printed texts in letterpress
edition unknown
published by the artist
condition: aged paper and cardboard, small crumpling on vertical edges
not available anymore
In the early seventies Pieter Laurens Mol was an outspoken protagonist of Concrete Poetry. Twisted Dutch sayings like ‘De vloer met jezelf aanvegen’ [meaning: instead of walk over someone… walking over oneself] were visualized into a print or photo. Or the six letters of the word POETRY were cast in concrete and hold together by a rope.
KRISTJAN GUDMUNDSSON, Orsök og Afleiðing [Cause and Consequence], 1974
32,5 x 33,3 cm (12,5 x 21,5)
Tipp-Ex correction paper on coloured paper, original frame
vintage edition
edition 10, here number 1/10
numbered, dated and framed behind acrylic glass by the artist in 1974
personal signature: Til Þoru og Kees, frá Kidda og Mísu’
published by the artist, Amsterdam
p.o.r., Margin Scheme
In the seventies corrections on the typemachine could be made with the help of prefabricated paper correction strips of Tipp-Ex. Kristján Gudmundsson used these strips couvered with a film of chalk to make drawings. He told me that he was intrigued by the fact that the result of the zigzagging lines he drew could not be detected on the strip from which he drew the lines with a ruler. He said: ‘The strip doesn’t have any memory of how they were drawn’, i.e. on the coloured paper in both a parallel and diagonal way, as shown above. Hence the title.
This copy is the very first one out of an edition of ten. As soon as the first one was ready and framed it was given to us as a gift in Daniel Stalpertstraat in Amsterdam, a place we frequently visited in the early seventies. KvG
History of price:
Galleri i8, Reyjavík, Iceland November 2021 € 3.800,- (edition behind acrylic glass frame)
TAKAKO SAITO, To my friends, n.d. [1974]
20,3 x 15,2 cm
book in hand-dyed slip case
Japanese bound, handwritten title and name, xerox printing, various color pencils, gouache, collages
tipped-in miniature mini-books
series of very small hand made edition
signed
published by Beau Geste Press, Devon, England
mint; hand made
extremely rare
€ 2.200,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace EU registered mail
inv.TSai 000-pr
In the mid-seventies Takako Saito commemorates her days in Devon. The main part is called “My friends” (with drawings of cattle and cats) and another part is described as “Days in Devon” that exists of a separate booklet with drawings, pasted in de back, 28 pages, small leporello and tipped-in miniature books.
Although Fondazione Bonotto mentions an edition of 120, it is extremely difficult to find a copy of this elaborated artist’s book.
JOSEPH BEUYS, Holzpostkarte, n.d. [1974]
10,2 x 14,9 x 3,3 cm
screen print, wood
signed
edition 600
published by Edition Staeck, Heidelberg, Germany
€ 580,- plus € 13,- costs Track&Trace
inv.JBeuys 283
JOSEPH BEUYS, Holzpostkarte, n.d. [1974]
10,2 x 14,9 x 3,3 cm
screen print, wood
signed
verso ink stamped F.I.U. / Free International University
edition 600
published by Edition Staeck, Heidelberg, Germany
€ 480,- plus € 13,- costs Track & Trace
inv.JBeuys 437
SOL LEWITT, Incomplete Open Cubes, 1974
20,5 x 20,5 cm
artists book, offset, SC, 264 pp. (not paginated), 253 black & white illustrations
1st print
published by John Weber Gallery, New York 1974
used, nevertheless in very good condition
€ 680,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace EU registered mail
Published in conjunction with a 1974 John Weber Gallery exhibition, “Incomplete Open Cubes” is Sol LeWitt’s typically rigorous artist’s book that delineates each of the permutations of three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten and eleven part open cube sculpture and drawings.
MAN RAY, Cadeau, 1974
16,5 x 10,2 x 9,5 cm
cast iron, copper nails, plastic card certificate
signed with initials, numbered
edition 5000
published by Luciano Anselmino, Turin, Italy
Conceived in 1921 and published in 1974 by founder Luciano Anselmino, Turin in Italy.
Signed on a twice folded card with information about this object, accompanied by a small card bearing the number of the multiple and signed with initials.
When it comes to added certificate card, original wrapping etc. in the market, there is a variety of items that go with this edition from 1974.
SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, Camouflage, 1974
50 x 40 cm (19 x 23,5)
black and white photograph, frame
edition 3
Foto: K. van Gelder
HREINN FRIDFINNSSON, An Aquarelle of the surface of the lake “Thingvallavatn” Painted with water from the surface of the lake plus color, 1973-’74
76 x 62,5 cm
aquarelle, pencil on paper in original frame with silver leaf
each hand made and unique copy depicts the contour of the lake (“Thingvallavatn”) filled in with blue aquarelle paint
edition 10
extremely rare
KRISTJAN GUDMUNDSSON, Shipwreck, 1973 – 1974
29,5 x 22,5 cm
offset on tracing paper, folded as issued
signed, dated, numbered
edition 20
published by the artist
condition: splendid, although aged semi-translucent tracing paper
Private collection
€ 3.500,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.KG 000-pr
Kristjan Gudmundsson installed the print ‘Shipwreck’ behind a glass plate for the first time in Galerie van Gelder in Amsterdam in the late eighties. Originally in the seventies it used to be an object in a wooden box; a paper folded boat lying on its side at the bottom of the box. Now the paper sculpture is conserved in a wooden frame with a signature in capital letters.
In 1974 Kristjan Gudmundsson went to Drukkerij Andersen in Amsterdam that forwarded the order to Drukkerij Van der Stolk also in Amsterdam (Ruyschdaelkade). At that time Kees van Gelder was the only employee in this offset printer’s firm by which he had to print this order on tracing paper.
