MARLENE DUMAS, 6 invites, 1982 – 1988 [ incl. removal – birth announcement]

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MARLENE DUMAS, 6 invites, 1983 – 1988
6 exhibition cards, removal and birth announcement (1983)
various sizes and years
published by various institutions, galleries or publishers
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This group of cards and announcements includes a photo stat with a hand written text in which Marlene Dumas writes about her removal to a boat called ‘Casa Cara’ moored in Amstel river. With a witty wordplay on a “removal announcement” she simultaneously refers to a biological removal of her newly born daughter into the outer world.

– Maria Chailloux Impresario, Amsterdam – Ecco Pier Paolo Pasolini, edition, 1988
– Gemeentemuseum Arnhem, Netherlands – Het Persoonlijke = Politiek, 1984
– De Expeditie, Amsterdam – Fear of babies, 1986
– removal letter / birth announcement, hand written, envelope postal date 20-06-1983
– Polychrome Graphics, Amsterdam – card announcing new edition ‘Stilleven’, 1982
– Galerie Flatland, Utrecht, Netherlands, The artist as a young girl, 1984
– Galerie Helen van der Meij / Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam – Unsatisfied desire, 1983

LUC TUYMANS / DANNY DEVOS, Ons Geluk / Our Fortune, 1997 [exhibition card, flyer]

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LUC TUYMANS / DANNY DEVOS, Ons Geluk / Our Fortune, 1997
15,5 x 10,5 cm / 10,5 x 14,9 cm
2 invitation cards for opening
very rare as set
condition: splendid – mint
published by Roger Vandaele atelier editie, Antwerp, Belgium
€ 140,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
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These two invitations were mailed together.

Print on thin paper:

TONY CRAGG, JOSEPH BEUYS, MIMMO PALADINO, Postcards By, 1981 [7 cards in envelope]

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TONY CRAGG, JOSEPH BEUYS, MIMMO PALADINO, Postcards By, 1981
20,3 x 14,4 cm
offset, Chromolux cards
2 colour cards TONY CRAGG, 3 black and white cards JOSEPH BEUYS,
2 cards MIMMO PALADINO, brown envelope
condition: splendid – mint
published by Lucio Amelio, Naples, Italy
€ 65,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
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History of price:
Anartist, New York, USA August 2025 US$ 175.- (complete set of 13 cards)

JOHN M ARMLEDER, Untitled, 1998 [spirograph drawing]

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JOHN M ARMLEDER, Untitled, 1998
53,1 x 38,2 cm (34,8 x 49,8)
spirograph drawing, colour pencil, lead pencil
signed, dated, numbered (as if it concerns an etching)
series of 25 unique drawings + 10 AP (numbered I-X)
published by Edition Franz Mäder Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
€ 4.200,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
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John M Armleder was invited to make an etching for publishing house Edition Franz Mäder Galerie, Basel. In stead of making a dry needle etching on copper plate he asked Mäder to make 25 blank plate prints on etching paper. On each of these Armleder drew unique spirograph drawings. He numbered them as if it concerned an edition.
At a certain point, Armleder used a spirograph by leaving the utensil uncontrolled run over the paper creating a most surprising juggler’s lightness and evocativeness. He once stated that for him in the end every time he has to think about how to make an art piece that is no more than a performance. Here it is, definitively, with it’s etching-like dancing appearance.

Close up:

 

Examples of drawings out of the so-called EA’s:

DIETER ROTH, catalogue Biennale Venice, 1982 [artist’s book as catalogue]

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DIETER ROTH, catalogue Biennale Venice, 1982
29,7 x 21 cm
stack of loose pages, SC, bound with metal fastener
splendid condition, very gently used
published by Swiss Pavilion / Pro Helvetia
€ 150,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
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This book comes with a customised cardboard box:

History of price:
Ursus Books, New York, USA, July 2025 US$ 175.-