JOHN BOCK, Meech elasticity, 2004 [signed]

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JOHN BOCK, Meech elasticity, 2004
21 x 15 cm
artist’s book with pop up in center, 92 pp.
edition unknown, 30 copies
1st edition
signed, numbered
mint
published by CCA, Kitakyushu, Japan
€ 150,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.JBoc 000-pr
Margin scheme

A collage of a pictorial diary with reproduced handwritten statements in Germanish English with collages of personal as well as found photos and printed matter. The cover “Bänsch – Kauferverhalten – 4. Auflage” is such an example of found printed matter. Colophon in English and Japanese.

History of prices:
The Land of Nod, Ostend, Belgium € 95,- (unsigned)
Paule Lean Bisson-Millet, Beilstein, Germany January 2025 € 50,- (unsigned)
Buchhandlung Wien/Lukatsch, Berlin, Germany May 2013 € 75,- (unsigned)

KENDELL GEERS, Point Blank, 2004 [artist’s book]

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KENDELL GEERS, Point Blank, 2004
21 x 15 x 0,8 cm
artist’s book. offset, bullet holes, gun powder sooth; comes in cellophane bag
edition 30
signed, numbered
published by Imschoot, Uitgevers, Ghent, Belgium
€ 1.400,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.KGee 000-pr

Seven bullet holes are randomly shot into the blank pages of this artist book. The cover has residue of gun powder. The publisher suggests that Kendell Geers’ exile from his homeland of South Africa and its violence during Apartheid inspired him to make this multiple with gun shots. The sooth of gunpowder is spread over the front of the cover and the cellophane bag has created several hardly visible hair thin scratches in the layer of sooth.

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History of prices:
Saint Martin Bookshop, Brussels, Belgium November 2023 € 500,- unsigned
Saint Martin Bookshop, Brussels, Belgium November 2023 € 350,- unsigned

GERHARD RICHTER, War Cut, 2004

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GERHARD RICHTER, War Cut, 2004
25 x 21 cm
hard cover, 340 pp.
edition 2000; nrs 1-200 signed with felt-tip pen on penultimate page, numbered
2,000 copies, numbered with stamp on the penultimate page, of these a few copies are also signed, dated and marked h.c. in felt-tip pen on the penultimate page,
150 copies, signed, dated and numbered in blue ballpoint on penultimate page
published by Walther Koenig, Cologne, 2004
here unsigned
inv.GR 000-pr

In May 2002, Gerhard Richter photographed 216 details of his “Abstraktes Bild Nr 648-2”, 1987. Working over a period of several weeks, Richter combined these 10 x 15 cm details with 165 texts on the Iraq war, published in the German FAZ newspaper on March 20 and 21. ‘War Cut’ follows an ever denser rhythm in which texts and gaps take up the same amount of space as the pictures, creating a strictly composed work of open and closed layouts and their mirror images. A conceptual artist’s book about the war in Iraq and one may say war in general communicated through newspapers.

Extra information:

In 2012 a second edition in English was published with a different book cover:

 

 

History of prices – signed version edition 200
Bengtsson Fine Arts, Landskrona, Sweden $ 2700.-  November 2010

ELSWORTH KELLY, Wild Grape Leaves II, 2004

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ELSWORTH KELLY, Wild Grape Leaves II, 2004
58,4 x 78,7 cm
1 colour lithograph
edition 60
here a RTP/Read to Print
not available

This print in the final edition of 60 was vertically signed as issued.

History of price:
William Doyle, New York, USA € 10.699,- 30 April 2019 (hammer price)

ALEX KATZ, The Sailor Hat, 2003

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ALEX KATZ, The Sailor Hat, 2003
19.5 x 17.25 inches
edition 60
produced by BAM / Brooklyn Arts for Music, New York, USA
not available       

Reducing a woman’s face to its essential components for this characteristic portrayal of Americana, ‘The Sailor Hat’ demonstrates Alex Katz’s stylized and flattened approach to figuration — his artistic trademark that finds its most concentrated expression in his printmaking.

History of prices:
US$ 1,050.- December 2012