KEN FRIEDMAN, This is really it! This is really it! This is?, ca 1962-1968
27,9 x 21,6 cm / 19,7 x 15,3 cm
prints on paper, folded as issued, petrified rubber band
3 parts from unknown source
inv.KFrie 1012
This is an unknown publication, probably connected to one of the “Fourre-Tout” publications produced by Ben Vautier in the sixties. An edition of 101 copies composed of two parts, i.e. a bocal and an envelope with artist’s contributions. For sale at Ben Vautier’s Fluxus shop ‘La Çedille qui rit’ in Nice, France. The theme of this issue “Fourre-Tout” (tr. mishmash) was apparently about “Realism”, although this is not explicitly outspoken in the accompanying text by ben Vautier.
JOHN CAGE, catalogue on scores, 1962
8vo., 80p.
offset
published by Henmar Press Inc. & C.F. Peters Editions, New York, USA, 1962
€ 120,- plus € 15,- track & Trace registered EU mail
Brochure with bibliograpy, chronology and discography. This is a catalogue John Cage’s scores and compositions available as of 1962 from his music publisher Peters, edited By Robert Dunn. It includes reproductions of Cage’s musical notation as well as an interview with Roger Reynolds with 22 black & white illustrations. An excellent and scarce copy as such.
Additionally a 4 page listing of Edition Peters, often lost at the offered copies. Folded once, with discoloring.
History of prices offered or determined by:
eBay-chubertiade_music_and_arts US$125.- 23 July 2021
Amazon.com, USA US$ 92.50 April 2013 (used)
Schubertiade Music, Vestal, NY, USA $125.- April 2013
MAN RAY, Tonsure (Marcel Duchamp), 1984
15 x 10 cm / 4″ x 6″
postcard, cream coloured
edition unknown
published by Fotofolio, New York, USA, 1984
€ 145,- + € 8,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.MRay 146-pr
Throughout his career Marcel Duchamp recasted accepted modes for assembling and describing identity. In 1917, having recently arrived in the United States, Duchamp found special significance in a mechanically produced photo-postcard that depicted him simultaneously from five different vantage points, thanks to a hinged mirror: ‘Five-Way Portrait of Marcel Duchamp’.
In 1921 Duchamp famously pictured himself as Rrose Sélavy (Eros c’est la vie: a pun translating to “Eros is life,” when pronounced aloud in French). He would associate himself with this female persona throughout the remainder of his career. At the same time, he posed for well-known photographs in which he sported an unconventional tonsure emblazoned with a star. This photo was taken in 1921. Soon thereafter, he used mugshots to cast himself as a criminal of many aliases wanted for running an illegal gambling operation.
Another example of a staged portrait of Marcel Duchamp photographed by Man Ray and used for a Monte Carlo bond:
Marcel Duchamp, Monte Carlo Bond ‘Obligation de Cinq Cents Francs’, 1924
collage of colour lithograph with photograph by Man Ray of Marcel Duchamp’s soap-covered head
