Elephant Folio with color and b/w illustrations. Limited to 2000 copies, this copy boldly signed in black ink by the artist on second front free endpaper. Unpaginated (39 leaves, some printed on verso and recto, some on verso only), including a facsimile of the original "Manifiesto Blanco" published in Spanish in Buenos Aires in 1946 in which he sets forth the parameters for his art movement, "Spatialism," together with translations of the manifesto into Italian, German, French, and English, an homage by Alain Jouffroy, poems by Michel Fougares, Raffaele Carrieri, and Leonardo Sinisgalli, a statement by Fontana, 4 small illustrations, 5 large portrait photographic illus., and 17 large plates (12 in color or tint) showing details of Fontana's work. Some leaves loose or separated from the block. Bound in publisher's binding, cloth backed, with slipcase (upper and lower panels largely separated, reinforced within). Literature: Harry Ruhé & Camillo Rigo: "Lucio Fontana - graphics, multiples and more ...", Tuja Books, Amsterdam 2006, mentioned and ill. p. 197. Read More...
Evocative pastel on paper depicting part of the NY City skyline including the iconic building in the blue evening light. Undated, 1930s. Signed lower left. 10.5 x 13 inches (26.5 x 33 cm.) (visible), set in a period gilt mat and frame, 19.5 x 22 inches (49.5 x 56 cm.) overall. Unexamined out of frame, in apparently fine condition. Read More...
Opera of the Worms, 1984. Limited edition letterpress collaborative artist's book featuring images by Judy Rifka and text by Rene Ricard. [44] pp. + [1] pp.; 30.7 x 23.5 cm. (book) ; 30.9 x 23.1 cm. (print) ; 31.4 x 24.7 cm. (inner slipcase) ; 32.4 x 24.6 cm.; loose leaves; slipcase; black-and-white & color. Handset and printed letterpress by Carol Bundy on Dieu Donne handmade paper with colors printed in lithography by Judith Solodkin. Copy No. 9 of the edition of 80 + 20 A.P, signed to limitation page by Judy Rifka and Rene Ricard, and with separate letterpress print, signed and numbered AP 9 by Rifka. Housed in a two part cloth slipcase. 12 3/4 x 9 5/8 x 1 in. [32.4 x 24.4 x 2.5 cm]. Light dust soiling to slipcase elements, internally very fine throughout. Originally issued at a price of $750. Read More...
Hardcover. 8vo. 51 pp. Translated from the French by Lord Alfred Douglas, with a new introduction by Holbrook Jackson; decorated and hand-illuminated by Valenti Angelo. Embossed black boards with gilt title on spine; decorative endpapers, top page edges uncut; boards light stained, but otherwise in very good condition with clean text. No slipcase.