Category Archives: printed matter



JAMES LEE BYARS, invitation card, 1981 [Galerie Helen van der Meij]

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JAMES LEE BYARS, invitation card, 1981
10,4 x 14,7 cm
offset
published by Galerie Helen van der Meij, Amsterdam
€ 450,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace EU mail
inv.JLBy 71-pr

James Lee Byars was quite interested in making paper works and printed matter. The motif of the ephemeral was never far away. Here his name is printed in extremely tiny capital letters on the front of the card.

JAMES LEE BYARS, The Palace of Good Luck, 1989 [multiple, invitation card]

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JAMES LEE BYARS, The Palace of Good Luck, 1989
11,4 x 16 x 0,3 cm
3 parts: gold printed envelope, card, red plastic mini ball
published by Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy
extremely rare
€ 950,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.JLBy 70-pr

On behalf of the inauguration of solo exhibition ‘The Palace of Good Luck’ of James Lee Byars a gold printed envelope including a white card with a very small red ball was sent to a selected group of people. The empty card and mini marble should be considered a part of this edition, also the gold envelope is an important part of the artist’s vocabulary; hence this multiple consists of three parts.



Additional information
Castello di Rivoli has archived its own published Byars’ golden printed invitation card, shown on its website recto and verso. Apparently the museum is not aware of the content of the envelope that is an important part of the invite. On the first photo in the right lower corner one may see an unevenness most likely caused by the tiny red ball inside.

Ref. Castello di Rivoli Collection Invite James Lee Byars.

MARTIN CREED, ‘I Can’t Move’ CD, 1999 [invite, order form]

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MARTIN CREED, ‘I Can’t Move’ CD, 1999
each 10.8 x 14 cm, invite + order form
published by Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada
Collection K. van Gelder, Amsterdam
inv.MCre 38-pr

This invitation came with an order form on very thin paper to buy a released CD at Art Metropole in Toronto. On Thursday September 9th Martin Creed performed songs from his CD during the launch.

DAVID HAMMONS, Rousing the Rubble, 1991

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DAVID HAMMONS, Rousing the Rubble, 1991
HC, dust cover, 96 pp.
published by The Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S. 1 Museum, New York, USA
mint
€ 385,- plus € 15,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.DHam 1144

For decades David Hammons consciously avoided the attention of critics, galleries, and museums. Meanwhile he preferred “doing things in the street.” In 1997 I visited Jack Tilton Gallery in New York. At the back office ‘hidden’ on the top of a cupboard an evocative elephant’s dung decorated with beads and the like was put there ‘for sale’, i.e. not really fanatically, so to say. Nowadays David Hammons’ works are highly estimated and part of What’s on in the arts. KvG

History of prices:
Amazon-David Platzker, New York, USA, March 2025 US$ 575.-
eBay-piperita76maria, Middle Village NY, USA December 2024 US$ 550.-
Ursus Books, New York, USA November 2023 US$ 650.-
Amazon-brookb, New York, USA, November 2022 US$ 700.-
Amazon-brookb, New York, USA, February 2022 US$ 800.-
Patrick Andersson Antikvariat, Lund, Sweden, October 2021 US$ 599.-
Amazon, October 2021 US$ 215.-

DAVID HORVITZ, Studio Rent Editions, 2015 [mail]

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DAVID HORVITZ, Studio Rent Editions, 2015
29,7 x 21 cm
mail in print
inv.DHor 000-pr
 

Hi,
After a year of itinerant studios in free residences, I’ve re-started my studio rent edition series. If you don’t know this, they are a series of monthly editions that subsidizes my monthly studio rent. They are all an edition of 10 and sold for 1/10th of my studio rent. I’ve done this for years. Most of previous ones are sold out (some are available at my gallery in Berlin). Each month I send out an email describing the new piece, and you can purchase one, and it is then mailed to ou. Maybe this series could also be seen a a monthly mail art project as well. I’ve stopped posting info online, just sending their descriptions through emails like this, to keep things more ephemeral.
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