Category Archives: A-I



LUDWIG GOSEWITZ, Der Anziehschmit, 1967

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LUDWIG GOSEWITZ, Der Anziehschmit, 1967
60 x 42 cm
offset print for cut outs
edition 150
published by Edition René Block, Berlin, Germany

Ludwig Gosewitz found methods to transfer astrological birth constellations in a visual system. Via compasses and colours he translated the scientific knowledge about planets and constellations into geometrical watercolours and gouaches. In 1971 he began to create mouth-blown glass objects. The process of producing the colourful vases and bowls, the working with the hot glass, functioned like an opposite pole to the geometrical and mathematical based drawings in terms of unpredictability and chance.

ERIC ANDERSEN, Opus 36, n.d. [1965]

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ERIC ANDERSEN, Opus 36, n.d. [ca 1965]
13,5 x 19,4 cm
text, selfpublished stencil
edition unknown
Collection Kees van Gelder, Amsterdam
inv.EAnd 927

text:
Write two exactly identical envelopes to me and place with tape the right amount in coins instead of stamps. Then put the one into the other and send the letter to me. If I get the letter I will maybe be able to see the exact difference between these two envelopes, and, maybe I will have a useful relationship. And maybe I will be a clever boy. And I will be a happy boy.
eric andersen, vangede bygade 9, gentofte, copenhagen.

Signals, 1964 -1966 [journal issues 2 – 11]

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Signals, 1964 – 1966
tabloid size, 8 issues
offset, newspapers
1st print, vintage, extremely rare
issues 2, 3-4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 (issues number 1 and 5 are lacking)
splendid condition
€ 3.200,- plus € 32,- Track & Trace registered mail

A near complete run of 9 magazines of the legendary 60’s publication Signals.

Published under the direction of Paul Keeler and artist David Medalla to promote international art, i.e. European, Latin, Central and South American artists represented by the Signals Gallery in London, but which also dealt with a wide array of artistic and aesthetic issues of the avant- garde of the 1960’s, with excerpts from writings and texts by numerous noted artists and critics, profusely illustrated throughout showing artworks, cultural figures.

Initiator David Medalla next to one of his bubbling machines, London, 1964

This cutting-edge journal documented exhibitions at the Signals showroom in London, and includes images, poems, critical essays, scientific digests, photographs and experimental art news. Basically documenting exhibitions and events in Britain and abroad, Signals brought together leading innovative artists, writers and poets of the time and, in addition, established a context for kinetic, time-based, performance and environmental art. Artists featured in these original magazines include Jesús Rafael Soto, Takis, Lygia Clark with screen print couver, Sergio de Camargo, Carlos Cruz-Díaz, Eduardo Chillida and Marcela Salvadori and many others. There are 10 issues and 9 magazines in total, as numbers 3 and 4 are combined into a twin issue. Here lacking original magazines numbers 1 and 5.
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History of prices:
William Allen Word & Image, London, UK   GBP 650.- January 2021 Nr 7 (Lygia Clark) (sold)
William Allen Word & Image, London, UK   € 7.200,- July 2019 (complete set)
William Allen Word & Image, London, UK   GBP 300.- July 2019 Nr 2
William Allen Word & Image, London, UK   GBP 165.- July 2019 Nr 3-4
William Allen Word & Image, London, UK   GBP 275.- July 2019 Nr 5
William Allen Word & Image, London, UK   GBP 325.- July 2019 Nr 6
William Allen Word & Image, London, UK   GBP 525.- July 2019 Nr 7 (Lygia Clark)
William Allen Word & Image, London, UK   GBP 350.- July 2019 Nr 8
William Allen Word & Image, London, UK   GBP 600.- July 2019 Nr 9
Largine, Madrid, Spain   GBP 288.- August 2019 Nr 2

 

Related extra information
Reprint available.
A reprint of the complete run is available at Iniva, 164 pp., unbound in slipcase, 35cm (height), approx 300 illustrations. This facsimile edition reprinted and published by Iniva, 1995. The cutting edge journal brought together leading innovative artists, writers and poets of the time and established a context for kinetic, time-based, performance and environmental art.
Artists featured in the original and reproduced in the facsimile edition include Jesús Rafael Soto, Takis, Lygia Clark, Sergio de Camargo, Carlos Cruz-Díaz, Eduardo Chillida and Marcela Salvadori, and many others. The facsimile edition comprises volumes one and two of 11 issues and comes with a comprehensive index.

M.C. ESCHER, Icosaëder, 1963 [Verblifa tin box]

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M.C. ESCHER, Icosaëder [Icosahedron], 1963
12,5 x 12,5 x 12,5 cm
printed tin box with embossed relief
edition 7100
published by Verblifa / Vereenigde Blikfabrieken, Krommenie; on behalf of its 75th anniversary
not available

Originally M.C. Escher was not interested in a commission to make a tin box. Nevertheless a delegation of Verblifa convinced the artist eventually by showing a box called Koh-I-Noor once designed in 1955 for the Verkade chocolate factory, i.e. a Icosahedron, a geometrical shape with twenty sides. He got fascinated by this object and invented a way for having the box industrially produced by Verblifa.
The tin was produced in an edition of 6.800 and an additional 300 tins were produced to replace any defects.


Drawing of the invention for the production of the box by M.C. Escher displaying lid, hull and bottom.


Employees during the production of the icosahedron shaped tin boxes in Krommenie 1963.

History of prices.
Venduehuis, The Hague, Netherlands € 2.800,- 29 April 2021 (hammer price)
Auction house Christie’s, Amsterdam € 395,- / US$ 456.- / Dfl. 865,- December 1998
Auction house Vendue Huis, Den Haag € 800,- / US$ 1,060.- August 2013
New Art Editions US$ 1,425.- / € 1.075,- September 2014

KEN FRIEDMAN, This is really it! This is really it! This is?, ca 1962-1968 [Fluxus]

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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, Edition Peters, 1962

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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

MARCEL DUCHAMP, Tonsure, 1921

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MARCEL DUCHAMP, Tonsure, 1921
15 x 10 cm / 4″ x 6″
postcard
edition unknown
inv.MDuc 000-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. Soon thereafter, he used mugshots to cast himself as a criminal of many aliases wanted for running an illegal gambling operation.


‘Portrait multiple de Marcel Duchamp’, 1917
gelatin silver print
photographer unknown

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

Photo courtesy The Museum of Modern Art, New York