Antiquariatsmesse Stuttgart 2021 - Katalog

lem de Kooning, Jim Dine, Jane Freilicher, Alex
Katz, R. B. Kitaj and Larry Rivers. With a recording
of Ashbery reading his poem. Prints and record
housed in a stainless steel Hollywood movie canister
with a convex mirror on the lid. San Francisco:
Arion Press, 1984. € 12500,–
Designed as a tribute to Ashbery, his poem is accompanied
by signed prints from his artist-friends, united
within a circular format. The prints are in various
media, including lithography, etching, and woodcut.
The text is printed in handset type radiating from a circular
hub like spokes in a wheel. Along with the record
of Ashbery reading the poem, there is a new foreword
to the poem written by the poet. The foreword is signed
by Ashbery and each original print bears the particular
artist’s signature. Fine copy. Limited to 150 copies
Now very scarce.
Johnson, Artists’ Books in the Modern Era 1870–2000,
No. 173.
Prangenberg, Norbert. Peer Gynt. Illustrated with
35 etchings and monotype. Folio, bound in cloth
covered boards in the orginal cloth covered slipcase.
San Francisco: Limestone Press, 1990. € 8500,–
The German artist, Norbert Prangenberg, who was primarily
known as a sculptor, was also a prolific graphic
artist, and the 35 etchings and monotype he contributed
to this edition of Peer Gynt helped to create a magnificent
book. The book was printed by Jill Livermore,
Richard Urban, Mike Shea, and Karen Tossavainen on
Rives 270 gm paper, and bound by Klaus Rötzscher and
Hank Hine. There are nineteen examples, numbered
and signed by the artist. As new.
Warhol, Andy – A Collection of Warhol’s Early
Work in Books and Magazines. Comprised of 50
books and 10 magazines. Various formats, sizes
and bindings, each as originally issued. Each item
preserved in new cloth folding box. Various Places:
1951–2004. € 42500,–
A nearly complete collection of Warhol’s work as an
illustrator, and as a designer of dust jackets for trade
publications, as well as covers for magazines. This
aspect of Warhol’s creative output is little known, little
collected, and the material has been largely ignored.
A recent exhibition entitled “Reading Warhol” at the
Brandhorst Museum in Munich brought much of the
forgotten material to the attention of Warhol scholars
and collectors. However, that exhibition covered only
books and ephemera, and did not deal with his magazine
covers.
The majority of our collection documents Warhol’s
early work, beginning shortly after he arrived in New
York from Pittsburgh in 1949. The importance of these
illustrated book and magazine covers is easily understood
when one sees how his later style evolved from
the imagery seen in these early works. The collection
includes 10 magazines for which Warhol designed the
covers, including the celebrated cover for Esquire, all
5 issues of Time magazine, and his covers for Vogue,
Playboy and Opera News.
Lacking only one printed book listed in “Reading
Warhol”, and not including the seven books published
by Warhol himself in the limited handmade editions.
The dust wrappers for the books published in the fifties
and sixties are extremely rare and are now virtually
impossible to find on the market.
See: Reading Warhol, catalogue of exhibition at the
Museum Brandhorst, September 18, 2013 – January 12,
2014 (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2013).
Baselitz, Georg. Winter. By Joseph Brodsky. Illustrated
with 14 coloured aquatint etchings by Georg
Baselitz. With an additional suite of the prints, each
signed and numbered by the artist, 712 × 508 mm.
Folio, book size: 530 × 370 mm, bound in white
paper over boards, a Baselitz woodblock print in
red on front cover, green lettering. Entirely uncut.
San Francisco: Limestone Press, 1992. € 27500,–
Continuing his collaboration with a major author, Baselitz
specially created these 14 full-page coloured aquatints
to compliment Joseph Brodsky’s poem, “Eclogue
IV: Winter”, written by Brodsky in 1977.
The copper plates were prepared by the artist in Derneberg,
Germany and then printed at the Limestone Press
in San Francisco. The large format and layout of the
book grants each full-page etching the physical space
necessary for these commanding images.
Signed on the colophon by Baselitz and Brodsky. This
is one of the 15 lettered copies accompanied by an extra
suite of the 15 prints on large paper, each one signed
and numbered by the artist. There were also 60 regular
copies issued without a suite on large paper. As new.
Lüpertz, Markus. Steelpoints and Poems. Illustrated
with 10 drypoint etchings by Markus Lüpertz,
of which one is inlaid on the cover. Folio, bound in
original half brown morocco in linen slipcase. San
Francisco: Limestone Press, 1989. € 4000,–
Like many modern artists, Lüpertz has always been
interested in expressing himself through poetry as well
as through visual media. In this work, executed at the
time he was working on creating a series of windows
for the cathedral in Nevers, he successfully combines
both. One of 60 copies, signed by Lüpertz. A fine copy.
Förg, Gunther. The Rune. By Ezra Pound. [22] pp.
Illustrated with 5 lithographs. Folio, bound in self
wrappers, preserved in the original cloth folding
box. San Francisco & New York: Hine Editions &
Edition Julie Sylvester, 1991. € 4000,–
Gunther Förg has created a series of five lithographs
to accompany Pound’s poem ‘The Rune’ from the San
Trovaso Notebook. Printed from five lithographic
stones drawn by the artist at the Limestone Press in
November 1990. Housed in the original cloth folding
box, the book is signed by Förg. One of an edition of
40 copies.
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