MAN RAY, Self portrait, 1974
69,7 x 99,5 cm
offset, triptych
folded for mailing as issued
publisher Studio Marconi, Milano, Italy
sculptural poster as self portrait designed by the artist
condition: three tiny wears in center due to folding as sent
uncommon, not mentioned in the Junko and Teruo Ishihara collection
(excluding handmade wooden reader’s desk)
€ 180,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.MRay 198-pr
In his fifties Man Ray shaved half his face for the above self-portrait. Francis Naumann has suggested that this act may have referred to Man Ray’s duel identity as an American artist with strong ties in Europe. He was living in Hollywood at the time he took the photograph in 1942, and would return with his wife Juliet to Paris in 1951 to spent the rest of his life.
This large triptych print was published as an announcement for a work called Autoritratto (23 x 18 cm), a signed and numbered photo edition of 23 copies – together with a biographical text and an archivist’s note in pencil with the name of the artist. Not discoloured copy!
History of price:
Studio Bibliografico Marini, Valenzano, Italy January 2026 € 200,-
Mouvements – rue Visconti, Paris, France January 2026 € 100 (verso repaired tear)
L’Arengario – Studio Bibliografico, Cellatica, Italy February 2025 € 250
Mouvements – rue Visconti, Paris, France February 2025 € 100 (verso repaired tear)
Casa d’Aste, Brescia, Italy February 2025 estimate € 200 – € 300
MAN RAY, Self Portrait, 1965
24 x 17 x 4 cm
book, biography, ill.
1st edition, hand signed in pencil
published by Little Brown & Company Ltd, Canada in association with Atlantic Monthly Press
mylar protection cover
dust cover on lower front side has tiny chips; for the rest more than very good
very rare in this state
€ 500,- plus € 18,- Track and Trace registered mail
inv.MRay 305
History of price:
Mungobooks, Poole, UK January 2025 US$ 1,244.-
Brooklyn Rare Books, Brooklyn, New York USA January 2026 US$ 900.-
JESSICA STOCKHOLDER, Place mats, 2002
each 35,6 x 26,7 cm / 10 1/2 x 14 inches
pack of 100 double-sided paper place mats
offset
edition 1000
mint condition
published by The Renaissance Society / University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
inv.JStoc 299
History of prices:
Unoriginalsins.co.uk, Midlothian, UK June 2023 GBP 45.-
The Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA June 2022 US$ 30.-
Artware, New York, USA July 2016 US$ 40.-
The Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA January 2012 US$ 30.-
GENERAL IDEA, Eye of the Beholder, 1988
23 x 20,8 x 0,5 cm
chenille embroidery on crest-shaped felt
edition ca 100
mint
€ 675,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
This multiple was published in 1988 and is part of the MoMA collection in New York: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/125826
Extra information
In 2010 a special museum archive boxed edition of 26 + 4 AP was issued and signed by AA Bronson for the Estate of General Idea and includes the following crests:
Down the Drink, 1988/2010
Le Fin, 1988/2010
Ouroboros, 1988/2010
Phoenix with a P, 1988/2010
Post Mortem, 1988/2010;
When the Fur Flies, 1988/2010
Eye of the Beholder, 1988/2010
Lucre, 1989/2010
Cartouché, 1991/2010
Passion Over Reason, 1991/2010
Related information
Special Museum Archive box
chenille embroidery on crest-shaped felt
edition 26 + 4 AP
24 x 21 x 0,5 cm
published by Kunsthalle, Zürich, Switzerland for patrons only who support the Kunsthalle Zürich with CHF 1.000 per year.
History of price:
Artsy-Caviar20, Toronto, Canada February 2024 US$ 2,000.- (Make an offer)
TAKAKO SAITO, Hutschachspiel, 1990
ca 16,5 x 21,5 x 27 cm
grey bowler hat, gouache, wooden chess pieces
signed, numbered, dated
edition 10 + 2 AP
sold
The edition Hutschachspiel comes in the colour black. There is an AP edition of 2 that comes in grey; here number AP 2/2. The miniature set of wooden chess pieces are put on a tiny hand painted chess board pattern.
JOHN LIGGINS, Elemental Actions, 1974
10,1 x 14,3 cm
stenciled print, ink, hand stamped
artist’s publication, 4 pp. (+ cover)
edition unknown
published by In-Out Productions, Amsterdam
very good
inv.JLig 000-pr
BILL MITCHELL, Azonic II – A drawing by Bill Mitchell, n.d. [ca 1978]
19,9 x 15 cm
thread, plastic pages, tape, artist’s book, SC, 16 pp.
published in Newton Abbot, Devon, England
pristine condition
This artist’s book was published in two versions. Here “Azonic II” comes with a foul red cover and contains 16 pages. “Azonic I” was published in ca 1974 and has 26 pages with a foul blue cover.
PETER VAN DE KLASHORST, This show is not against art, 1987
29,7 x 21 cm
Dutch text on paper, flyer, top corners are punched
published by Galerie Hans Gieles, 1987 (May)
inv.PKlas 294-pr
Peter van de Klashorst the Enfant terrible in the Dutch art scene of the eighties was one of the few artists that shared his thoughts with the public by means of a statement. Here Peter van de Klashorst (a name he later shortened into Peter Klashorst) comments on an exhibition at Galerie Hans Gieles: This show is not against art; rather I am interested in regressing the zone beween art and non-art, the zone in which non-art seems to beg to become art and art seems to slum in non-art. In this zone, art seems eternally young forever at a frish [sic] start. It is really a zone of fantasy – which is exactly what Panofsky thought Dürer’s ornamental decorations fort the Gebetbuch finally amounted to: a fantasy of art as a zone of totally free activity, that is, activity unconditioned by anything but its own impulses.
This text on paper hung in his solo exhibition at Galerie Hans Gieles, hence the pin holes.
JCJ VANDERHEYDEN, T.V.-checkerboard, 1992
17,7 x 24 cm
analogue black and white photo
signed, numbered, dated
edition 3
pristine
published by Galerie van Gelder Editions, Amsterdam
€ 1.200,-
ULISES CARRIÓN, removal announcement Other Books and So, 1980
A3 card
card design by Ulises Carríon, postal stamp d.d. 2 June 1980
n.b. hand written text by Ulises Carrión
edition unknown
very rare
€ 480,- plus € 15,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.OBandS 341
In April 1975 Ulises Carríón started a bookshop Other Books and So at Herengracht 227 in Amsterdam.
In 1980 this by artists highly esteemed bookshop changed its name into Other Books and So Archive and removed to Bloemgracht 121. As the hand written lines show the addressees were warmly invited to come to the new venue: Het is zo ver. Komen jullie eens langs? (trans. It’s there. Will you come by?)
The removal card enumerates the activities of the venue: Books, Mail, Recordings, Video, Distribution, Exhibition, Registration and also Concentration.
