LILY VAN DER STOKKER, How I Went to New York 1983 – 1992, 2022
22,2 x 17,2 cm
HC, 184 pp.
mint, sealed as published
published by Les Presses du Réel, Dijon, France
p.o.r.
inv.LvdS 000
The story in this biographical book start as follows: ‘The story I am going to tell is a story that Jack had said several times we should make a film of. In those days I was never interested in writing down everything, but here it is.
With a girlfriend I decided to travel to New York. It was meant to not be a short holiday. We thought it was the coolest place to go to. If we could survive in New York, that would be the ultimate challenge.
I told more than Jack intended me to tell, but I did it the way he said it: “Write it down, the Six Street Gallery story and all the things that happened with you, because it sounds like a movie.’
BEN VAUTIER, Stencils de Ben 1963-1969, 1969
31 x 21,5 cm
stencils on paper, 58 loose sheets in folder with printed title
edition of 180
artist’s publication
not available
The text in French reads: ‘This collection contains old stencils dating from 1963 to 1969. I removed these stencils because lately people often asked me for old issues of TOUT from 1 to 6 which are sold out.
This collection is far from complete; most of the stencils of magazine ‘BEN DIEU’, those of the chapter ‘Poetry’ and ‘Moi Ben je Signe’, have not been preserved’
BEN VAUTIER, Je doute, donc je suis, n.d. [ca 2017]
29,7 x 23 x 3 cm
notebook, spiral binding
with pencil drawing: ‘Don’t fill it up’
signed
published by Quo Vadis, France
inv.BVau 000-pr
FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES, Untitled, 1991
25,4 x 21,5 cm
SC, 48 pp. + 4 pp.
artist’s book, text by Steven Evens
published by Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milano, Italy
mint condition
not available anymore
The pages of this book are printed with a light blue rectangle against a blue paper background. The work is based on one of the artist’s stack works, recreated on pages. Apart from the two middle pages of the book having an essay by Steven Evans on white paper this work is a crystal clear conceptual allusion of Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s stack sculptures of printed matter.
RICHARD LONG, A Straight Hundred Mile Walk in Australia, 1977
21 x 29,9 cm
SC, 8 pp., stapled
published by John Kaldor Project 6, Australia
splendid condition, although tiny brown spot on title page rare
inv.RLo 000-pr
ANITA DI BIANCO, The Error is Regretted, 2021
32,2 x 24,3 cm
print on newspaper
HC, 96 pp., text by Francesco Gagliardi, 8 pp.
here signed, dated
published by The Green Box Kunst Editionen, Berlin, Germany
Collection K. van Gelder, Amsterdam
GERHARD RICHTER, Abstract Painting 825-II 69 Details, 1996
18,5 x 12,2 cm
HC, 138 pp., 69 plates
edition 1000
published by Insel Verlag, for this edition Scalo, Zurich-Berlin-New York
splendid – mint condition
€ 360,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.GRich 104-pr
GERHARD RICHTER, Sils, 1992
15,5 x 11 cm
artist’s book, HC, 86 pp.
edition 1000, here number 464
signed and hand numbered in pencil
mint condition
published by Oktagon Verlag, München-Stuttgart, Germany
€ 400,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.GRich 102-pr
History of prices:
eBay-inyerfacedesign2009, Bristol, UK June 2025 € 415,-
Golden Waves of Books, Fayetteville, USA January 2023 € 540,-
Gold Books, Austin, USA, January 2023 € 485,-
Hafa Adai Books, Moncks Corner, USA, January 2023 € 455,-
Van Ham Auktionen, Cologne, Germany, 31 March 2022 € 990,- (hammer price)
JOHN BROWN, The Vikings, 1980
21,2 x 17,7 cm
SC, stapled, offset
signed, numbered
edition 100, here 93/100
published by 1W1 Communications, Toronto, Canada
condition: toned paper
Collection K. van Gelder, Amsterdam
p.o.r
inv.JBro 26-pr
Interpretations of found images is the core of this publication. It is not known whether John Brown (1953) is still active or where he is located.
This book was bought in Ulises Carrión’s bookshop ‘Other Books and So’ in Amsterdam in the early eighties.
Added information
This artist’s book is also in the collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA.
CADY NOLAND, The Clip-on Method, 2021
each 28 x 21,5 x 2,2 cm
offset, Mylar dust covers
2 volumes, 288 pp. and 304 pp.
published by Cady Noland, Rhea Anastas and Robert Snowden, USA
inv.CNol 231-232
photos: K. van Gelder
This book of Cady Noland has two volumes and could easily be considered as a follow up of ‘No Land’ (2018), an unauthorized collection of copied writings about Cady Noland with reproductions of magazine and catalogue clippings; a piracy publication.
However, here the content of ‘The Clip-on Method’ is obviously documented with the aim to put emphasis on more verbal critical statements about ethical aspects in recent history of the United States, such as racism, dubious goals in politics and industry, use and abuse of scientific knowledge, manipulations of power. That makes this book more than just a collection of images of works by Cady Noland, and together with the 2-3 white pages notably inserted here and there in both volumes makes this publication an artist’s book. It is used by the artist as a means to make a point, opposite to mere documenting art works.
The second volume contains a text “Notes for 1989 Show” published in Balcon no. 4 written by Cady Noland, next to photos of works.
In a book report by Jason Pickleman in Chicago Gallery News a lucid and precise analysis is made of the two volumes of ‘The Clip-on Method’. Really an enlighting loose text.
KvG
Ref. Book report, by Jason Pickleman, Chicago Gallery News, 16 May 2022.
History of prices:
After 8 Books, Paris, France December 2023 € 90,-
Tender Books, London, UK November 2023 € 119,-
