modern art
THE CREMASTER CYCLE
Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, 2003. First edition. Paperback. Large 8vo. Near fine in stiff pictorial wraps with French folds. Minor rubbing to edges. Else bright, clean, and tight. 1 of 1000 unnumbered copies. 75pp. SIGNED by Matthew Barney. Uncommon catalog from Barney's 2003 Oslo exhibition of his.....
DRAWING RESTRAINT VOL. II.
(Tokyo): Uplink, 2005. First edition. Wraps. 8vo. Flexible plastic wraps. 161pp. With full-color illustrations. Fine. SIGNED by Barney to title page. Artist-book exhibition catalog for Barney's traveling show of 2005-06.
Marc Chagall: Il teatro dei sogni
Milan: Mazzotta, 1999. Paperback. 4to. Very good plus with just touches of rubbing and shelfwear. Spine uncreased. Clean, bright and sound throughout. In Italian. Full color reproductions. Rather uncommon.
CHUCK CLOSE: Life and Work 1988-1995
New York: Thames & Hudson, 1995. First Edition. Cloth. 4to. Cloth. Very good plus in a very good DJ. Jacket has light edgewear, rubbing, bit of sunning, and a few stray marks. Unclipped. Book is bright, sharp, clean throughout with just touches of shelfwear at extremities. A wonderful production with.....
MARCEL DZAMA: Behind Every Curtain
New York: David Zwirner, 2011. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Original illustrated wraps. Very fine. Bright, clean, sharp, and tight. SIGNED by Dzama to first page with an additional original drawing of a man's head. Full-color monograph produced in conjunction with a 2011 exhibition at the David Zwerner gallery in New.....
MARCEL DZAMA: The Infidels
Dusseldorf: Druck Verlag Kettler, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Original linen-coered boards. No DJ, as issued. Fine. Bright, clean, sharp, and sound. SIGNED by Dzama to the front endpaper: "Live well / Marcel Dzama." Dzama has added a nearly full-page illustration/portrait of a man's face. Full-color and beautifully-produced catalogue for.....
PAUL LASZLO: Member of American Society of Industrial Designers
(Beverly Hills, CA): Laszlo, Inc., [ca. 1956]. First edition. Pictorial Boards. 4to. Glossy pictorial boards. No DJ, as issued. Very good or better. Some minor rubbing to boards, bump to top edge front cover. Faint sunning to edges. A number of pages loose, as common and as designed (see below).....
SOL LEWITT
(New York): (Museum of Modern Art), (1978). Second printing. Wraps. 4to. Very good in original color pictorial wraps. Mild soil and wear to edges. Else bright and sound throughout. 181pp. INSCRIBED by Lewitt to first prelim with an original penned drawing: "[drawing] / Sol LeWitt / for Yoko." An important.....
IL CORSO DEL COLTELLO: The Course of the Knife
New York: Rizzoli, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Near fine or better in like jacket. INSCRIBED by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen to title page: "For Kyle, / Claes + Coosje / Los Angeles, Summer 1995." Trace handling wear. Generally clean, bright, sharp. Catalog of the epic outdoor, mutlimedia.....
JULIAN SCHNABEL: 4 April - 2 May 1981 [Exhibition Poster]
New York: Mary Boone and Leo Castelli Galleries, 1981. Original full-color exhibition poster; 36.75" x 28.25". Folded for mailing, else fine. In original Castelli Gallery envelope. Early gallery show of Schnabel's infamous plate paintings.
Paul Klee Aux Sources De La Peinture
Paris: Le Club Francais du Liver, 1963. First edition. Hard Cover. Square 4to. Black boards with label to front board and spine. Very good or better with touches rubbing and a couple of moderately bumped corners. Else clean, sound throughout. Limited edition, one of 12,000 (this 2105). Text in French.....
CRAZY HORSE SALOON VU PAR SIMBARI
Paris: Wally Findlay Galleries, [1976]. First Edition. Very good. Square 4to. Printed silver wraps. Light edgewear. Small scuff to lower, rear wrap. Uncommon exhibition catalog featuring reproductions of Nicola Simbari's series of paintings created to mark the 25th Anniversary of Alain Bernardini's Parisian strip-tease night club, The Crazy Horse Saloon.....
[S&H Green Stamp Invitation / Poster from Warhol's 1965 ICA Retrospective]
Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1965. First Edition. Original folded poster invitation; 3 3/4” x 9” folded and 22 3/4” x 22 1/2” open. Bit of toning, soil to one edge and a couple of tiny nicks. Very good plus to near fine. Famed Green Stamp poster/invitation for Warhol's first.....
THE BOY AND THE BIRD
Stuttgart / London: Edition Hansjorg Mayer, (1979). Second edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Original black cloth. Near fine in like jacket. Faint wear, a touch of soiling here and there. Overall bright and clean. One of 1000 hardcover copies, each with a signed print loosely laid in. Lacking called-for slipcase. Child-like.....