FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES, Untitled, 1991
25,4 x 21,5 cm
SC, 48 pp. + 4 pp.
artist’s book, text by Steven Evens
published by Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milano, Italy
mint condition
not available anymore
The pages of this book are printed with a light blue rectangle against a blue paper background. The work is based on one of the artist’s stack works, recreated on pages. Apart from the two middle pages of the book having an essay by Steven Evans on white paper this work is a crystal clear conceptual allusion of Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s stack sculptures of printed matter.
RICHARD LONG, A Straight Hundred Mile Walk in Australia, 1977
21 x 29,9 cm
SC, 8 pp., stapled
published by John Kaldor Project 6, Australia
splendid condition, although tiny brown spot on title page rare
inv.RLo 000-pr
ADITYIA MANDAYAM, The Ooze, 2018
12 x 17 cm
book, offset, SC, 144 pp.
interview and texts by Aditya Mandayam (ca 30%)
other texts by Chris Fitzpatrick, Andrea Liu, Michal Novotny and Kees van Gelder
here signed in red ink
edition 500
published by Roma Publications, Amsterdam, Netherlands / Kunstverein München, Germany
Usually so-called artist’s books with texts by others than the artist involved are expelled from The Archive is Limited. This book invites to make an exception. “The Ooze” contains 49 pages of 144 that have been written by Aditya Mandayam. The front and back of the cover show reproduced drawings by the artist. “The Ooze” gives an insight in the thinking of Brud through theories and statements.
ANITA DI BIANCO, The Error is Regretted, 2021
32,2 x 24,3 cm
print on newspaper
HC, 96 pp., text by Francesco Gagliardi, 8 pp.
here signed, dated
published by The Green Box Kunst Editionen, Berlin, Germany
Collection K. van Gelder, Amsterdam
GERHARD RICHTER, Abstract Painting 825-II 69 Details, 1996
18,5 x 12,2 cm
HC, 138 pp., 69 plates
edition 1000
published by Insel Verlag, for this edition Scalo, Zurich-Berlin-New York
splendid – mint condition
€ 360,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.GRich 104-pr
GERHARD RICHTER, Sils, 1992
15,5 x 11 cm
artist’s book, HC, 86 pp.
edition 1000, here number 464
signed and hand numbered in pencil
mint condition
published by Oktagon Verlag, München-Stuttgart, Germany
€ 400,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.GRich 102-pr
History of prices:
eBay-inyerfacedesign2009, Bristol, UK June 2025 € 415,-
Golden Waves of Books, Fayetteville, USA January 2023 € 540,-
Gold Books, Austin, USA, January 2023 € 485,-
Hafa Adai Books, Moncks Corner, USA, January 2023 € 455,-
Van Ham Auktionen, Cologne, Germany, 31 March 2022 € 990,- (hammer price)
JOHN BROWN, The Vikings, 1980
21,2 x 17,7 cm
SC, stapled, offset
signed, numbered
edition 100, here 93/100
published by 1W1 Communications, Toronto, Canada
condition: toned paper
Collection K. van Gelder, Amsterdam
p.o.r
inv.JBro 26-pr
Interpretations of found images is the core of this publication. It is not known whether John Brown (1953) is still active or where he is located.
This book was bought in Ulises Carrión’s bookshop ‘Other Books and So’ in Amsterdam in the early eighties.
Added information
This artist’s book is also in the collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA.
EL LISSITZKY, badge, 1990
5,3 x 5,4 cm
glossy print, badge/lapel/pin
limited edition
published by Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, USA very rare
splendid condition
inv.ELis 24-pr
This edition was produced decades after El Lissitzky’s death in 1941, and so made without his consent. Nevertheless it is archived for curiosity reasons, being part of the Rosa Esman Gallery in New York that had apparently reasons for having such a pin made without an autorisation of the artist. The badge is similarly fabricated as the one of Sol LeWitt with iconic stripes in black and white. Opposite to the LeWitt badge the one of Lissitzky is verso dated: “1990”, perhaps a circumstantial evidence that both pins were made in the same period.
See Sol LeWitt [pin, ca 1990]
SALIM BAYRI, Slaap Lekker, 2022
T-shirt, size L, print on cotton
edition unknown
published by the artist
Collection K. van Gelder, Amsterdam
For years artists lived and worked in an old school building in Van Schendelstraat, Groningen, Netherlands. It has been sold to make place for apartments. The artists involved in the Slaap Lekker Studio came together for the last time on 19th of March 2022 having a Good Bye party. Salim Bayri produced a stack of T-shirts printed with pictures from previous parties.
