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Item date(s): 1964

Walasse Ting  - (poems by)


Medium: Paper
Pages: 171pp
Size: 410mm
Collation: 67 loose folios
Binding: Slipcase - yellow
Technique: Lithograph

Type: Unbound sheets

Place publication: Bern, Switzerland
Publisher: E. W. Kornfeld
Cat. 025 - MPM3
Exhibition 2017

Additional notes:
With 67 lithographs. Folio, loose as issued in original cloth, with dust jacket and yellow slipcase, in a cloth drop-back box.

From the description in the Ursus Books, Ltd catalogue #247, item 148: An extraordinary work containing poetry by Walasse Ting and illustrations by twenty-eight well-known artists including: Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Alan Davie, Jim Dine, Sam Francis, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Riopelle, and Andy Warhol. "Ting, a friend of [Sam] Francis, initiated the project to produce the 'most international' book as an illustration to his own poetry" (From Manet to Hockney). Francis contributed six lithographs himself as well as soliciting artwork from his various artist friends. The quintessential Pop Art book.

See "From Manet to Hockney" #135 and "The American Livre de Peintre" #55.

Full collating schedule included with book.

Illustrated on page 209 of "A Century of Artists Books" by Riva Castleman. 1994.

Illustrated on page 24 & 47 of "Modern Artists as Illustrators" by Riva Castleman. 1981.

Item 55 in "The American Livre de Peintre" by Elizabeth Phillips and Tony Zwicker, 1993.

Illustrated on page 242 of "Artists' Books in the Modern Era 1870-2000, 2001.

Illustrated in Blood on Paper (Victoria & Albert Museum), 2008.

Illustrated as Lot 195 of The Ritter Collection of Modern Illustrated Books and Livres d'Artiste, Swann Auction Galleries, 5/5/09.

Artists & Books 1900-Present. Ursus Books, New York, 2014. Item 88. USD65,000 (all lithographs signed!)

Exhibition notes:
Item 025 - MPM3 on Booknesses: Artists' books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection.

UJ Art Gallery, University of Johannesburg

25 March to 5 May 2017

Ref: GB/10299













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