WILLEM DE RIDDER, Fluxus – nieuw!! niet gratis maar 70 ct – 10Bfr [newspaper], 1965
tabloid size
Fluxus newspaper, Amsterdam
verso:
Various shots of Dorothea Meijer seated amidst the Mail-Order Warehouse items if the Fluxshop in the home of Willem de Ridder in Amsterdam during the winter 1964 – 1965
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
€ 2.000,- 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:
Zwiggelaar Auctions, Amsterdam € 2.400,- 5 December 2025 (complete set, hammer price)
William Allen Word & Image, London, UK GBP 650.- January 2021 Nr 7 (Lygia Clark)
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 [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
BEN VAUTIER, Mensonges [tr. lies], ca 1962 – 1963
21,4 x 16,5 cm
ink stamp and stencil print on paper
published by the artist
inv.BVau 1013
This is a list of works with dates of creation, apparently meant as lies. The title of the works refer to an exhibition that took place in Vautier’s Fluxus shop ‘La cédille qui sourit’ in Nice, France.
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.
BEN VAUTIER, Crisis and Nervous Depression, ca 1962-1963
11,4 x 10,1 cm / 4.6 x 3.9 inches
Fluxus announcement of event (to be filled in), black letterpress on thin paper
edition unknown
published by Total Art Gallery, Nice, France
condition: aged
rare
€ 385,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.BVau 1014
This statement of Ben Vautier is printed on very thin paper and a good example of his self-mockery he so often showed in his works: Ben, is so much of a true failure and a shabby fool, crying to be great, that he has had enough of it all.
A copy of this item is in the collection of the Walker Art Center in New York, USA and in the collection of Fondazione Bonotto, Colceresa, Italy.
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
LA MONTE YOUNG, Composition # 7, 1960 [To be held for a long time]
text on stencilled paper
26,8 x 21,1 cm
edition unknown
published by Ben Vautier
This publication is apparently part of the newsletters Ben Vautier sent out in the sixties. First there is an introduction by Ben on contemporary music being influenced by music from other cultures. He pleads with the reader to extend of what music should be by creating music with constructions, themes or melodies; a sole note is sufficient.
In the second part he presents “Composition 1960 #7” by La Monte Young and in the last part Ben Vautier presents a similar composition called “Crescendo” from July 1963.
YVES KLEIN, Dimanche 27 November – Le journal d’un seul jour, 1960
55,5 x 38 cm
letterpress on news print paper, 4 pages
edition unknown
For the “Festival d’Art d’Avant-garde” Yves Klein had his work “Leap Into the Void” for the first printed in his single day newspaper Dimanche, which was sold at newstands throughout Paris on Sunday the 27th of November 1960, and often appeared side by side with the real French newspaper Le journal du Dimanche. On the same day Klein held a press conference at the Galerie Rive Driote at 11 am, to announce the project. The four page broadside featured visual works and writings by Klein, including the manifesto Theatre of the Void.
The artist wrote (in French) the following text as introduction of his newspaper:
ACTUALITÉ
As part of the theatrical presentations of the Festival of Avant-garde Art in November-December 1960, I have decided to present the ultimate form of collective theater: a dimanche for everybody. I did not wish to limit myself to an afternoon or evening performance.
On dimanche, 27 November 1960, from midnight to midnight, I thus present a full day of festival, a true spectacle of the Void, as a culminating point of my theories. However, any other day of the week could have been used.
I wish that on this day joy and wonder will reign, that no one will get stage fright, and that everyone, conscious as well as unconscious actors-spectators of this gigantesque presentation, should have a good day.
That everyone will come and go, move about, or remain still.
Everything I write in this diary today precedes the presentation of this historic day for the theater. The theater should be or at least rapidly attempt to become the pleasure of being, of living, of spending wondrous moments, and with each passing day of better understanding the beauty of each moment. Everything I write in this dairy represents my own steps towards this glorious day of realism and truth: the field of operations of my proposed conception of theater is not only the city, Paris, but also the countryside, the desert, the mountains, even the sky, and even the entire universe. Why not? I know that everything inevitably is going to work out very well for everyone, spectators, actors, stagehands, directors, et. al..
I would like to thank Mr. Jacques Polieri, the director of the Avant-garde Festival, for his enthusiasm and for proposing to me that I present this “dimanche, November 27.”
Yves Klein
YVES KLEIN, reprint of front page on poster with blue text, 1991
56 x 38 cm
offset print on newspaper
published on the occasion of the exhibition “Yves Klein 1928-1962” at The Archives by The Archives, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
This poster pictures the cover of the 1960 Yves Klein newspaper “Dimanche”, distributed by Yves Klein on November 27, 1960.
MAN RAY, The man, the art, the work, ca 1955
41,5 x 9,7 cm
pencil on (verso) invitation card of exhibition by Stoltenberg
Provenance : Juliet Man Ray
Man Ray wrote the following text on the back of an invitation card: “The man, the art, the work, it is all one. The art of the inner works which unlike the outer does not forsake the content, which he does not do – and can only ‘be’ – spring from depths of which the day knows nothing. The inward work, however, consists in his turning the man he is, and the self he feels himself to be, into the raw material of training and shaping where end is mastering – in art – the artist and the human being meet in something higher. In [?] mastery proves its validity as a form only when it dereels[?] in the boundless truth only sustained by it becomes the origin. The master no longer seeks but finds.
History of prices:
Auction House Drouot, (Duchamp-Man Ray) 22 June 1999
Paris Photo Collection € 1.100,- May 2013