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Billings, Montana: Yellowstone Art Center, 1989. Quarto (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 280 x 215 mm), 47, [1] pages, in illustrated wrappers. Catalogue of an exhibition of prints by Richard Diebenkorn. The Yellowstone Art Center organized the exhibition, which then traveled to Fort Worth, Tacoma, and Little Rock. Essay by Gerald Nordland, numerous color illustrations, checklist, chronology, and… Saber más sobre este artículo

Trenton, New Jersey: New Jersey State Museum, 1970. Octavo (9 x 6 inches; 227 x 152 mm), 52 pages, in stapled wrappers. Introductory guide to the various types of printmaking, with a glossary and bibliography and information on how to make your own prints and exhibit them. Wrapper designs by the author, Burton Wasserman, an artist who taught at Rowan University… Saber más sobre este artículo

Hamburg: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto (9 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches; 235 x 190 mm), 72, [4] pages in illustrated wrappers (soft cover). Exhibition catalogue focusing on artistic renderings of the Epic of Gilgamesh (in German, Gilgamesch), a Mesopotamian king. With drawings by Willi Baumeister and prints by Baumeister, Richard Janthur,… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Martha Jackson Gallery, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/2 x 7 inches; 220 x 180 mm), [44] pages in illustrated wrappers and illustrated slipcase. Scarce exhibition catalogue for Antoni Tàpies (1923-2012) at the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York in 1968. Nicely written preface by playwright Edward Albee. Mostly black-and-white reproductions throughout. Enclosed in an illustrated… Saber más sobre este artículo

Belvès, France: Pierre Vorms, Éditeur, 1962. Single sheet folded at top to create a flap containing text on both sides of the flap. 10 1/8 x 7 1/4 inches (258 x 185 mm) when folded. A rare prospectus for the third edition of Frans Masereel's wordless novel, La Ville. The clever design consists of a single sheet folded at the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1957. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto (12 3/4 x 9 5/8 inches; 320 x 240 mm), [8] pages in stapled rust-colored wrappers, with a woodcut laid in. Catalogue of an exhibition of works by Jan Cox, with a woodcut laid in (signed in pencil). The exhibition took place at the Museum of Fine Arts in… Saber más sobre este artículo

Seuphor, Michel and Will Grohmann. Arp. Paris: Collection Prisme, 1957. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (5/8 x 7 1/2 inches; 218 x 190 mm), 72 pages, in pictorial wrappers covered by the original glassine. SIGNED by Hans Arp four (!) times on the title page. A heavily illustrated book dedicated to Arp's sculptures and reliefs. Tipped-in photograph of Arp opposite… Saber más sobre este artículo

Montréal: Les Éditions de l'Arbre, 1945. First Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto (9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches; 240 x 190 mm), 96,[4] pages plus 38 black-and-white plates, in pictorial wrappers. INSCRIBED by Fernand Léger on the half title: "Alex Z Wiener / Très Amicalement / F Léger." A catalogue featuring some of Léger's works from 1938 to 1944. With… Saber más sobre este artículo

Black-and-white photograph laser-printed onto board covered in paper, two acrylic Plexiglas holes replacing the eyes and containing two coins. 9 1/8 x 6 5/8 x 1/4 inches; 230 x 160 x 6 mm. Title and artist's name and date printed, edition size stamped, all on the verso. German artist Hans Haacke's depiction of the unequal exchange rate when West Germany's… Saber más sobre este artículo

Copenhagen: Editions Ejnar Munksgaard, 1950. First Edition. 16mo (6 3/4 x 5 1/8 inches; 170 x 130 mm), [16] pages in stapled wrappers. INSCRIBED by Karel Appel on the inside front cover: "Voor / Gert-Jan / Appel." The recipient was the Dutch art collector Gert-Jan Hemmink. Booklet presenting paintings by Dutch artist Karel Appel (1921-2006), one of the giants… Saber más sobre este artículo

Tokyo: Tokyo Gallery, 1962. First Edition. Square Small Quarto ( 9 1/4 inches / 238 mm) illustrated folder containing three sheets. A beautiful, striking exhibition folder announcing a show at Tokyo Gallery, June 18-30, 1962. It features a dramatic six-panel abstract work, printed on both sides, a photograph of the artist printed on translucent rice paper, with an… Saber más sobre este artículo

Single sheet folded to create 10 panels, each measuring 9 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (242 x 140 mm) when folded. An imaginative announcement for an exhibition of paintings by Grace Hartigan and Larry Rivers and poems by Frank O'Hara. This glossy booklet unfolds to form a 10-panel announcement for the show and features a poem by Frank O'Hara interspersed with… Saber más sobre este artículo

Small Quarto (9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches; 235 x160 mm), 210 pages, in publisher's original red cloth, with a red chemise containing six prints, all housed in a slipcase decorated in red, black, and white. Important reference book on Russian unofficial art, along with a chemise featuring six beautiful prints (230 x 150 mm each) from an edition of… Saber más sobre este artículo

Small Quarto 10 1/8 x 7 1/2 inches; 255 x 190 mm), xiv, [2], 180 pages, in brown cloth, titles to upper board and spine, in an illustrated dust jacket. SIGNED by Ben Shahn on the front end paper and dated "Nov 6th 1953 / Ann Arbor." An admiring biography of the great radical artist (1898-1969). It's also signed by a… Saber más sobre este artículo

Hengelo, The Netherlands: Situationist Times, 1962. First Edition. Small Quarto (10 3/4 x 8 5/8 inches; 275 x 220 mm), [52] multicolored pages, in stapled illustrated wrappers. The scarce first issue of The Situationist Times, an avant-garde periodical that focused on art and politics. Articles in German, French, Danish, and English. Heavily illustrated on different colored pages, with collages… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Longview Foundation, 1963. First Edition. Small Quarto (9 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. 240 x 215 mm), 98 [2] pages, in heavy illustrated wrappers (soft cover). SIGNED by artist Larry Rivers on the upper wrapper, the first issue of this art and literary magazine that was devoted to Abstract Expressionism and New York School poetry. Rivers (1923-2002) contributed the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Paris: Berggruen & Cie., 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Catalogue of an exhibition of Cubist prints from the collection of Vicki and Sanford Weiss, a New Jersey couple who owned one of the most important collections of Cubist prints in private hands. The exhibition featured works by Braque, Picasso, Marcoussis, Schelfhout, Malevich, Villon, Severini, Davies, Archipenko, Delaunay, Gleizes, Duchamp, Metzinger, Laurencin, and… Saber más sobre este artículo

Paris: Berggruen & Cie., 1989. First Edition, First Printing. Catalogue of prints on view at Berggruen's Paris gallery in 1989, featuring Derain, Gauguin, Munch, Kirchner, Matisse, Heckel, Vlaminck, Mueller, Nolde, Schmidt-Rottluff, Valtat, Dufy, Campendonk, and Rohlf. With a preface in French by Fabrice Hergott. Yet another in a series of nicely produced catalogues by the famous Paris gallery. Scarce in commerce.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Small Quarto (10 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches; 260 x 242 mm), 73, [3] pages in illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Francesco Clemente on the title page, where he has also drawn a heart. This is an exhibition catalogue from the Mary Boone Gallery in New York, presenting 44 works by the great Italian artist. With an introductory essay by the… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Spink-Leger Pictures, 1999. First Edition. An exhibition catalogue presenting nine drawings by Alexander Cozens (c. 1717-1786) and four drawings by Victor Hugo (1802-1885). Short biographies of each artist, followed by the drawings. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Oblong 24mo (14 x 26 cm), [36] pages in wrappers (soft cover). CONDITION: Fine.