MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO, Le Ultime Parole Famose, 1967
7,6 x 12,6 cm
artist’s book, letterpress, stapled
text in Italian and English
edition 60
published by the artist
naturally discoloured due to its wood-containing paper, light bump top right
good, uncommon in this condition
€ 395,- plus € 18,- registered mail
inv.MPis 155
This booklet is the first artist’s book by Michelangelo Pistoletto in a limited edition of 60 copies as is stated by him in a publication of Musée d’Art Contemporain in Lyon in France: “Michelangelo Pistoletto Continenti del Tempo”, 2001.
The text is both in Italian and English, the latter being very uncommon at the time! The first line in the book may be considered as the kernel of the whole manifesto and states what it means to be an artist:
“When a man realizes that he has two lives – an abstract one for his mind and a concrete one which is also for his mind – he ends up either like a mad-man, who, out of fear, hides one of his lives and plays the other as a role, or like the artist, who has no fear and who is willing to risk both of them.”
History of prices:
Bruno Tonini/Tonini Editore, Rome, Italy December 2025 € 350,- (poor condition with rusted staples)
Bruno Tonini/Tonini Editore, Rome, Italy February 2025 € 1.000,- (rusted staples)
Tim Byers Art Books, Richmond, UK GBP 650.- April 2023 (discoloured)
eBay-vetiver62, Firenze, Italy US$ 1,800.- April 2023 (poor and discoloured)
Ellis Bierbar, Milano, Italy € 700,- April 2022 (condition unknown)
Tim Byers Art Books, Richmond, UK GBP 650.- October 2021 (discoloured)
eBay-vetiver62, Firenze, Italy US$ 1,800.- October 2021 (poor and discoloured)
eBay-many-giochi, Rome US$ 550.- October 2008 (tear and discoloured)
Barneby’s US$ 850.- January 2018 (discoloured)
HENK PEETERS, Mooi!, 2000
21 x 29.7 cm
unique fax print
In 2000 Galerie van Gelder invited Henk Peeters for a solo exhibition for which he proposed to cover the gallery space with artificial grass and cow hides on the walls. For that an invitation card was made that he apparently liked and commented with ‘Mooi!’, meaning ‘Beautiful!.
JOËLLE TUERLINCKX, Audio and visual days, 2000
42 x 29,7 cm
poster, digital print, folded as issued, original plastic envelope
published by Argos, Brussels, Belgium
inv.JTue 000-pr
Galerie Suspekt, Fotografie van: Artur Barrio, a.o., 1983
poster
66,5 x 49,2 cm
screen print
condition: good, although with some weak dents
rare
€ 160,- plus € 32,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.map 000
GIOVANNI ANSELMO, Invisibile, 1998
21 x 29,7 cm / 10,5 x 21,5 cm
A4 sheet + announcement card, 2 parts
published by Haus Edition / Anny De Decker and Stella Lohaus, Antwerp, Belgium
inv.GAns 000-pr
Galerie Balderich, poster, offset, 1971
49 x 35 cm
published by Galerie Balderich, Munich, Germany
splendid condition
very rare
€ 380,- plus € 18,- registered mail
MapD-Bald
Space 251 Nord – Investigations 1985 [Place Saint Lambert, Liège, Belgium]
61 x 42 cm
poster, offset
good condition, very rare
€ 120,- plus € 28,-, registered mail
MapD-Space
BAS JAN ADER, A work by Bas Jan Ader…, 1972
21 x 29,7 cm
invitation, printed matter, stencil print
published by Art & Project, Amsterdam
good condition, i.e. slightly yellowed
extremely rare
€ 950,- plus € 13,- Track & Trace registered mail
BJAder 559-pr
Bas Jan Ader’s first solo exhibition took place at Art & Project in 1972. Twice a day from 15 until 21 April he performed by reading an article published in the Reader’s Digest: The Boy who fell over Niagara Falls. It describes the only recorded instance of someone surviving a fall. At certain moments during his reading performance Bas Jan Ader paused and drank from a glass of water.
MIKE KELLEY, Love, Theft, Gifting and More Love, 2009
15,6 x 17,2 cm
iron on patch print; bent as issued, instruction in print
& LOUISE LAWLER, No Smoking, 2009 (match book)
booklet, 24 pp.
cardboard box (19 x 14 x 3 cm) with sticker on Mylar lid with silver coloured rubber band
including 12 cards by Mike Kelley / Louise Lawler, Sophie Calle, Trisha Donnelly, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Sam Durant, Fabrice Gigi, Jamie Isenstein, Leigh Ledare, Mai-Thu Perret, Aura Rosenberg, Greg Parma Smith and Lawrence Weiner
published by Swiss Institute, New York, USA
mint condition
€ 190,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace EU registered mail
inv.MK 04-pr
History of prices:
eBay-artplus, New York, USA March 2024 US$ 300.-
D.R. Fine Arts, New York, USA May 2023 US$ 300.-
D.R. Fine Arts, New York, USA May 2022 € 250,-
AbeBooks September 2017 US$ 500.-
