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ARS LIBRI ELECTRONIC LIST 118: MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART Ars Libri, Ltd. / 500 Harrison Ave. / Boston, MA 02118 [email protected] / www.arslibri.com / tel 617.357.5212 / fax 617.338.5763 Electronic List 118: Modern Art & Contemporary Art 1 ALBERS, JOSEF. Interaction of Color. (Die Wechselbeziehungen der Farbe.) Text: 78, (2)pp. Figs. Bound in cloth. Plates: 80 folders, nearly all printed with silkscreens in color, and many with multiple silkscreens, loose in cloth portfolio (as issued), together with 48-pp. commentary booklet. Sm. folio. Slipcase. ‘In 1950 Albers was appointed chairman of the Department of Design at Yale University.... His students there included Eva Hesse, Robert Rauschenberg, Kenneth Noland and Richard Anuskiewicz. His teaching of colour at Yale led to the publication of his renowned treatise ‘Interaction of Color’ (1963), a book that was later translated into eight languages as one of the major tools of art teaching throughout the world. In it, Albers investigated the properties of colour...including the illusory ability of opaque colours to appear translucent and overlapping, which he had begun to explore in 1950 in his best-known series of works, ‘Homage to the Square,’ on which he was occupied until his death. These were exhibited all over the world and were the basis of the first one-person show given to a living artist at The Metropolitan Museum of Art” (Dictionary of Art). Starnberg (Josef Keller Verlag), 1973. $5,000.00

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1 ALBERS, JOSEF. Interaction of Color. (Die Wechselbeziehungen der Farbe.) Text: 78, (2)pp.

Figs. Bound in cloth. Plates: 80 folders, nearly all printed with silkscreens in color, and many with multiple silkscreens, loose in cloth portfolio (as issued), together with 48-pp. commentary booklet. Sm. folio. Slipcase. ‘In 1950 Albers was appointed chairman of the Department of Design at Yale University.... His students there included Eva Hesse, Robert Rauschenberg, Kenneth Noland and Richard Anuskiewicz. His teaching of colour at Yale led to the publication of his renowned treatise ‘Interaction of Color’ (1963), a book that was later translated into eight languages as one of the major tools of art teaching throughout the world. In it, Albers investigated the properties of colour...including the illusory ability of opaque colours to appear translucent and overlapping, which he had begun to explore in 1950 in his best-known series of works, ‘Homage to the Square,’ on which he was occupied until his death. These were exhibited all over the world and were the basis of the first one-person show given to a living artist at The Metropolitan Museum of Art” (Dictionary of Art).

Starnberg (Josef Keller Verlag), 1973. $5,000.00

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2 Zürich. Galerie Bruno Bischofberger & New York. Mary Boone Gallery. JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

Drawings. (8)pp., 32 color plates. Lrg. oblong 4to. Cloth. D.j. One of 1000 hand-numbered copies, signed in ink by the artist opposite the frontispiece photograph.

Zürich/New York (Edition Bischofberger and Boone), 1985. $1,500.00

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3 Zürich. Galerie Bruno Bischofberger. JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT. (4)pp., 12 color plates (1 triple-

page folding). Lrg. sq. 4to. Cloth. D.j. One of 100 hand-numbered artist’s proof copies, signed in ink by Basquiat opposite the frontispiece portrait photograph, from the edition of 1000 copies in all. Published in conjuction with an exhibition, Jan-Feb. 1985. A fine copy. Very rare.

Zürich (Edition Gallery Bruno Bischofberger), 1985. $2,500.00

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4 Miller, Arthur & BOURGEOIS, LOUISE. Homely Girl, A Life. 2 vols. I: (2), 30, (4)pp. 10 original

drypoint etchings by Louise Bourgeois hors texte. 1 photographic plate by Inge Morath, of the collaborators. Tissue guards. II: (2), 30, (2)pp. 8 double-page color collages by Louise Bourgeois hors texte. 4to. Cloth, 1/4 calf. Slipcase.

Special edition, limited to 100 hand-numbered copies with 10 original etchings by Bourgeois, signed in the colophon by Louise Bourgeois and Arthur Miller. This special edition is apart from the unnumbered regular edition of 1200 (of which 100 were signed), containing reproductions rather than original prints. The text of Miller’s story is repeated verbatim in the second volume, but with passages selected by Bourgeois printed here in red. The whole finely printed in letterpress and offset lithography at the Stinehour Press.

New York (Peter Blum Edition), 1992. $7,500.00 Phillips, Elizabeth & Zwicker, Tony: The American Livre de Peintre (New York, 1993), no. 8;

Castleman p. 219

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5 BOURGEOIS, LOUISE. Louise Bourgeois présente Recueil des secrets de L. Bourgeois.

(Edition Ex libris. 8.) (10), 226, (2)pp. 12mo. Wraps. A facsimile reprint of “Recueil des secrets de Lovyse Bovrgeois, dite Bovrsier, Sage-Femme de la Royne Mere du Roy...,” Paris (chez Melchior Mondiere), 1635. Edition limited to 300 numbered copies, with bookplate in color by the artist, numbered and initialled in pencil, loosely inserted.

Köln (Salon Verlag), 2005. $1,500.00

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6 BRUS, GÜNTER. Das Aulicht. 11 tipped-in color plates, including text (1 double-page). Leporello,

printed on stiff card. Folio. Self-wraps. (slightly browned). Edition limited to 200 copies, signed and numbered in the justification by the artist.

Berlin/Stuttgart (Fey Verlag/ Kurt Weidemann), 1977. $375.00

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7 COPLEY, WILLIAM N. The Evil I... or The Story of My Life. By Cply. (26)pp. Prof. illus. Oblong

sm. 8vo. Leatherette, with supralibros image. One of 50 copies, signed and numbered by the artist in pencil; no colophon statement is provided. Copley privately published two versions of this book in 1965: this one, in black-and-white, in a very small edition, and another, in color and in a larger format, in an edition of 1000 copies.

N.p. (The Artist), [1965]. $850.00 Kestner-Gesellschaft: William N. Copley: Bilder 1951-1994 (Hannover, 1995), p. 187

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8 DARBOVEN, HANNE. Milieu ..80,,--: heute. [Für Walter Mehring.] (2)ff., 137 plates of

calligraphic text (printed on recto only), loose as issued. Folio. Publisher’s clamshell case with supralibros (paper-covered cloth). Unstated limited edition of 250 copies, initialled by the artist on the front cover supralibros, and stamp-numbered on the first leaf.

Hamburg (The Artist), 1980. $3,500.00

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9 DARBOVEN, HANNE. Quartett ‘88.’ (42), 745, (3)pp. Prof. illus. 4to. Cloth. D.j. Folio fitted cloth

clamshell case. Unstated Vorzugsausgabe: one of 25 copies initialled and numbered by the artist on the title-page, accompanied by a sheaf of 6 folio plates with mounted photographic prints from the book, each initialled in pen (the first also numbered in pen), housed in an interior compartment of the case.

Köln (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König), 1990. $3,500.00

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10 DINE, JIM. The Picture of Dorian Gray. A working script for the stage, from the novel by Oscar

Wilde, with original images & notes on the text. Dec. title, printed in color with a design by the artist, (52)pp., 12 original color lithographs (1 with acetate overlay). Prof. illus. Folio. Publisher’s green velvet over boards, stamped in silver with a design by the artist. Edition B: one of 200 copies, with 4 signed original etchings, loose in separate folder as issued, signed and numbered in the colophon, of three editions totaling 500 copies (apart from 65 artist’s proofs, and 75 portfolios on Japanese vellum, and 15 further proofs of the latter).

London (Petersburg Press), 1968. $3,000.00

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11 München. Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst. MARLENE DUMAS: The Origin of the Species. Feb.-

April 1990. (28)pp. Prof. illus. (largely in color). 4to. Wraps. Signed by the artist on the title-page, with a vignette portrait drawing of a man.

München, 1990. $650.00

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12 HOCKNEY, DAVID. Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm. With original etchings by David Hockney. (60)pp. 39 original etchings in text (numerous full-page). Printed on double-fold sheets. Folio. Full blue leather. Slipcase. Edition A: one of 100 copies issued with a folder of 6 loosely inserted original etchings, signed and numbered in the colophon by the artist, from the four editions totalling 400 plus 60 artist’s proofs (apart from a separate portfolio edition of 100 plus 15 proofs), all on heavy white rag waterleaf. An incomplete copy, lacking the 6 loose original etchings.

London (Petersburg Press), 1970. $1,800.00

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13 Cavafy, Constantine. Fourteen Poems Chosen and Illustrated with Twelve Etchings by DAVID HOCKNEY. Translated by Nikos Stangos and Stephen Spender. (42)pp., 12 original etchings. Folio. Cloth. Slipcase (light wear). Edition B: One of 250 copies on handmade paper, signed and numbered by the artist in the colophon, from the limited edition of 600 in all (including sets of loose etchings in portfolio).

London (Editions Alecto Limited), 1966. $4,500.00

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14 IANNONE, DOROTHY. The Berlin Beauties. You have no idea how beautiful you are, Berlin./ Oder Du hast ja keine Ahnung wie schön du bist Berlin. German translation: Dieter Schwarz. Cover photos: Marianne Filliou. (74)pp. Prof. illus. 4to. Self-wraps. One of 475 copies signed and numbered by the artist, from the limited edition of 500. Parallel texts in English and German.

Berlin/Boston/Rensellaer [sic] Falls/Zlayosc/Zürich (The Mary Dorothy Verlag [The Passion Press]), 1978. $850.00

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15 IANNONE, DOROTHY. The Story of Bern. [Or] showing colors. (74)pp. Prof. illus. Text reproduced from the artist’s manuscript. Printed on double-fold sheets. Sq. 4to. Self-wraps. Edition limited to 500 copies, signed and numbered by the artist in the colophon.

Düsseldorf (Dieter Rot and Dorothy Iannone), 1970. $950.00

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16 KIRKEBY, PER. Linoleumssnit 64-66: Figurer. (2)ff., 24 original linocuts. Folio. Wraps. with

supralibros title, designed by the artist. Edition limited to 200 copies signed and numbered in pencil by the artist in the colophon. Statement by the artist at the conclusion. This copy with an original pencil drawing by Kirkeby on the front flyleaf, signed and dated 28.11.95.

København (Bjørn Rosengreen), n.d. $1,800.00

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17 KIRKEBY, PER. Ludwig Wittgenstein: Bemerkungen über die Farbe. Herausgegeben von

G.E.M. Anscombe. (Bilder/Worte. Worte/Bilder. 3.) (60)pp., 4 original color etchings on japon. Folio. Boards, 1/4 cloth. Slipcase. One of 150 copies, numbered initialled and dated by the artist in the colophon, from the limited edition of 180, the etchings printed by Niels Borch Jensen, Kopenhagen. Commentary by Siegfried Gohr.

Münster (Kleinheinrich), 1998. $1,200.00

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18 MATTA-CLARK, GORDON. Splitting. (32)pp., 1 folding plate. 18 illus. Oblong sm. 4to. Self-wraps.

Documenting Matta-Clark’s mesmerizing project to bifurcate and precisely dismantle an abandoned two-family house in New Jersey, slated for demolition.

New York (Loft Press), 1974. $1,800.00

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19 TREMLETT, DAVID. Columns. 2ff., 1 original drawing in pastel and pencil, 14 tipped-in color plates. Tissue guard. Drawing: 285 x 242 mm. (11 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches). 4to. Boards, 1/4 cloth. Edition limited to 15 copies in all, each with an original pastel bound in.signed, numbered and dated by the artist on the half-title.

[Stadt Krems an der Donau] (Edition Galerie Stadtpark), 1995. $1,800.00

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20 ANDY WARHOL’S Index (Book). With the assistance of Stephen Shore, Paul Morrissey, Ondine,

Nico, Christopher Cerf, Alan Rinzler, Gerald Harrison, Akihito Shirakawa, and, particularly David Paul. Factory fotos by Billy Name. Several photographs by Nat Finkelstein. 68pp. Most prof. illus. throughout, including pop-out folding constructions and a 45-rpm recording. 4to. Dec. silver foil wraps. The 45-rpm recording loose; the inserted balloon has melted, adhering two leaves, as always.

New York (Random House), 1967. $650.00 Roth p. 188f.