ELVIRE BONDUELLE, WPSB #5, 2019 [artist’s book]

ELVIRE BONDUELLE, WPSB #5, 2019
ca 20 x 15 cm
acrylic paint, cotton, SC, 16 pp. incl. couver
series of ca 8 unique artist’s books
signed, dated, numbered
published by the artist
€ 350,- plus Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.EB 80

Elvire Bonduelle likes the idea that a reader may become happy while looking at the blue waves as if holidays have started. Including the couver, all the pages of this soft book is hand painted.

GUGLIELMO ACHILLE CAVELLINI, n.d. [self-historificated CV, ca 1975]

GUGLIELMO ACHILLE CAVELLINI, n.d. [ca 1975]
29,7 x 22,8 cm
offset
published by the artist
condition: poor
inv.GAC 772-pr

In the early seventies Mail artist Guglielmo Achille Cavellini predicts his death in 2014, and in 1971 he describes his work being part of a large retrospective at the Ducale Palace, Venice. This becomes part of the artist’s autostoricizzazione; self-historifisation. He loved the Italian flag tricolors and used them in his work. He created the “Cavellini sticker” always in red, white and green that bore the dates of the fast approaching Cavellini Centennial: 1914-2014. The above print shows his home-made self-historification, completed with the colours of the Italian flag.

JOHN M ARMLEDER, Niente, purtroppo!, 1975 [signed, dedicated to Ulises Carrión]

JOHN M ARMLEDER, Niente, purtroppo!, 1975
20.8 x 14.6 cm
SC, ink stamps, postage stamp, 20 pp.
edition 650 + 40 + HC I-X
signed, numbered, here dedicated to Ulises Carrión
condition: splendid
published by Edition Galerie Gaëtan, Carouge and Écart publications, Geneva, Switzerland
€ 220,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.JMA 000-pr

 
On top of the edition of 650 an extra 50 copies are signed, i.e. 10 signed, dated and numbered I – X by the artist and participants, incl. original documents and 40 signed, dated and numbered 1 – 40.

History of prices:
Laurence McGilvery, La Jolla CA, USA July 2024 US¢ 150.-
Stefan Schuelke Fine Books, Cologne, Germany July 2024 € 115,-
Antiquariat Heider, Cologne, Germany July 2024 € 100,-
Juan J. Agius, geneva, Switzerland March 2023 CHF 170,-
Anartist, New York, USA July 2022 US$ 100.-

JOHN M ARMLEDER, The John Armleder is a vegetarian book, 1973-’75 [artist’s book, signed]

JOHN M ARMLEDER, The John Armleder is a vegetarian book, 1973-’75
ca 25,5 x 18 cm
32 pp. (incl. couver)
hand made artist’s book: metal rings, very thin paper
edition 15, nr 11/15
fruit and ink stamps, fountain pen
condition: heavily yellowed due to aging and lignin-containing paper quality
extremely rare
published by Leather Wing Scribble Press, Geneva, Switzerland
€ 960,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.JMA 144-pr

This edition is part of a series of unique artist’s books, since all fruit stamp prints are handmade.

 
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JOSEPH BEUYS, Werke aus Münchener Sammlungen, 1981 [invite, signed]

JOSEPH BEUYS, Werke aus Münchener Sammlungen, 1981
10,5 x 29,5 cm (opened)
invitation, folded card
signed
splendid condition
published by Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
€ 200,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.JBeu 709-pr

The depicted ‘bonbons’ on this card is an installation described as “Ohne Titel, 1963-’66, made of gelatin, wax and transformer parts”.

History of price:
eBay, Duitsland, September 2019 € 280,- (oder Preisvorschlag)

JOSEPH BEUYS, Zeichen aus dem Braunraum III, 1984 [post card, signed]

JOSEPH BEUYS, Zeichen aus dem Braunraum III, 1984
10,5 x 14,7 cm
post card, screen print
signed
condition: excellent, elegantly aged
published by Edition Stack, Heidelberg, Germany
€ 200,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.JBeu 219-pr

History of prices:
Catawiki, Germany, March 2022 € 200,- (hammer price)
Van Ham Auktionen, Cologne, Germany, 27 May 2021 € 774,-
(2 post cards, hammer price)
Mühlheim an der Ruhr, Germany, 30 June 2018 € 250,- (hammer price)