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rare and scholarly books
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Catalogue 130-N: Modern Art: Rarities of the Avant-Garde
ars libri ltd.
rare and scholarly books
on the fine arts
Catalogue 130-N: Modern Art: Rarities of the Avant-Garde
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BAUMGARTEN, LOTHAR
Land of the Spotted Eagle. 157pp. Frontis., text figs. 4to. Wraps. Edition limited to 600 numbered copies. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, March-May 1983.
Mönchengladbach (Städtisches Museum Abteiberg), 1983. $350.00
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BEHNE, ADOLF
Von Kunst zur Gestaltung. Einführung in die moderne Malerei. 87, (1)pp., 25 plates (9 color). 12 illus. Sm. 4to. Dec. wraps., designed by Oskar Fischer, printed in orange, grey and black. The cover design, eight experimental color plates (including several striking abstractions) and five of the text illustrations, are the work of Oskar Fischer. Other illustrations reproduce work by Schwitters, Peri, Moholy-Nagy, Lissitzky, and Dexel. From the library of Walter Dexel, initialled by him in pen at top of the front cover.
Berlin (Arbeiterjugend-Verlag), 1925. $450.00
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BERLIN. Galerie Springer
Original guestbooks of the gallery, from its opening exhibition in May 1968 to March 1990. 7 ringbound artist’s drawing tablets, in two formats: 3 in folio, 4 in large 4to. Each (88)-(98)pp. (originally 100pp., as manufactured). In one tablet, only the first 16pp. are inscribed. Annals of one of the most influential and successful galleries in Germany from the 1960s on, pivotal in its exhibitions of contemporary artists, including Georg Baselitz, A.R. Penck, Arnulf Rainer, Markus Lüpertz, Antoni Tàpies, Piero Dorazio, Gaston Chaissac, and David Hockney. Of particular note in the final volume is a large and powerful original drawing by A.R. Penck in black marker (415 x 295 mm.; approximately 16 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches) drawn during the artist’s exhibition of ceramics, Oct.-Nov. 1989. The volumes are arranged chronologically by exhibition, with autograph signatures and other entries by numerous figures of the art world, including Penck, Lüpertz, Dorazio, Paolozzi, Rebecca Horn, William Copley, Stöhrer, Trökes, Sugai, Marwan, Schmied, Bastian, Roditi, Dore Ashton, and many others.
Berlin, 1968-1990. $2,000.00
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BERLIN. Der Sturm
Die Futuristen. Umberto Boccioni, Carlo D. Carrà, Luigi Russolo, Gino Severini. Künstlerische Leitung: Zeitschrift Der Sturm. Herausgeber: Herwarth Walden. 28, (4)pp. 7 illus. Sm. 4to. Wraps. (a little soiled). Containing a German translation of Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto; parallel entries in German, English, and Norwegian. One of several issues of this historic catalogue, here slightly abridged, published under the aegis of the Gesellschaft zur Förderung moderner Kunst; the exhibition was circulated throughout Europe in 1912. Light wear.
Berlin, n.d. [1912]. $350.00
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(BEUYS) Nijmegen. Nijmeegs Museum ‘Commanderie van Sint Jan.’
Joseph Beuys Vrouwen. Sept.-Oct. 1981. Texts by Armin Zweite and Hans van der Grinten. 63, (1)pp. 45 full-page plates in text. Sm. 4to. Self-wraps. This copy signed by Beuys in pencil at the base of the first leaf, with a characteristic pencil drawing of a hat above.
Nijmegen, 1981. $500.00
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BIBLIOTHEK DER JUNGEN KUNST
Bd. 1-24 (of 62 all publ.), bound in 3 vols. Sm. 4to. Publisher’s boards, 1/4 cloth (slightly shaken). Included in these volumes are monographs by leading critics (Biermann, Däubler, Hausenstein, Pfister, Kahnweiler, Valentiner and others) on Pechstein, Modersohn-Becker, Hoetger, Meidner, Klein, Heckendorf, Grossmann, Krayn, Jaeckel, Scharff, Vlaminck, Morgner, Klee, Eberz, Derain, Schmidt-Rottluff, Campendonk, Roeder, Moll, Uhden, Grosz, Laurencin, Unold and Waske. Light underlining in pencil.
Leipzig (Klinkhardt & Biermann), 1919-1921. $350.00
Perkins 154
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BLECKNER, ROSS
A suite of 6 original watercolors from 1987-1989, painted on the versos of six (identical) announcement cards for Bleckner’s exhibition at the Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, January 1986. Each 163 x 115 mm. (6 3/8 x 4 1/2 inches). Sm. 4to. Flexible boards with morocco cover label; ties. The series is loosely inserted into corner mounts on leaves of a custom-made album, inscribed on the last leaf "To Mario Diacono with love and gratitude/ Always/ Ross Bleckner/ 1987/ 1989. A somberly beautiful sequence, of an urn, a bouquet, a gazebo, abstractions.
N.p., 1987-1989. $5,000.00
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BLOSSFELDT, KARL
Wunder in der Natur. Bild-Dokumente schöner Pflanzenformen. Mit einer Einführung von Otto Dannenberg. (8)pp., 120 gravure plates. Tipped-in frontis. portrait of the photographer. Sm. folio. Publisher’s cloth. Hinges and foot of spine a bit rubbed; a fine copy.
Leipzig (H. Schmidt & C. Günther/ Pantheon), 1942. $1,250.00
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BLÜMNER, RUDOLF
Der Geist des Kubismus und die Künste. 69, (3)pp., 8 plates. Sm. 4to. Dec. wraps., with front cover drawing after Léger. Uncut. An historic presentation copy of this important text, inscribed on the front flyleaf "Au grand peintre cubiste/ Albert Gleizes/ admiré par Rudolf Blümner." A little browning and brittleness.
Berlin (Verlag der Sturm), 1921. $650.00
Raabe/Hannich-Bode 3; Spalek 92
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BOCCIONI, UMBERTO
Pittura, scultura futuriste (Dinamismo plastico). Quadri, sculture di Boccioni, Carrà, Russolo, Balla, Severini, Soffici. (4), 469, (7)pp., 51 plates. Frontis. portrait of the author. Sm. stout 4to. Wraps. (slightly worn). A closely reasoned and important text, called by Papini "the Bible of Futurism."
Milano (Edizioni Futuriste di "Poesia"), n.d. [1914]. $650.00
Salaris p. 23; Falqui p. 90; Tisdall p. 85; Jentsch p. 319
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(BOCCIONI, UMBERTO)
Numero speciale di "Dinamo Futurista" per le onoranze a Umberto Boccioni. (Dinamo Futurista. Mensile illustrato diretto da Depero sotto l’alto patronato di s.E. Marinetti. Vol. XI, N. 3-4-5, giugno 1933.) (4), 20, (2)pp., 8 plates with 13 illus. Text printed in orange and black. Sm. folio. Dec. wraps., with tipped-on cover illus. Contributions by Depero, Paolo Buzzi, Luigi Russolo, Luciano Folgore, Umberto Notari, Massimo Bontempelli, Renato Simoni; 4 texts by Boccioni ("Quadro della storia dell’arte," "Noi viviamo di verità nate ieri," "Dall’impressionismo al futurismo," "Interventismo--in carcere--al fuoco [quattro lettere]"). The final issue of Depero’s review, published in conjunction with the grandiose Boccioni exhibition organized by the Fascists under the patronage of Mussolini, and directed by Marinetti together with Buzzi, Depero, Fillia, Prampolini and others.
Rovereto (Trento), 1933. $500.00
Salaris p. 95