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My Pretty Pony

Item date(s): 1988

Barbara Kruger  - (illustrated by)
Steven King  - (text by)
May Castleberry  - (produced by)


Pages: unpaged
Size: 515mm
Inscription: Signed by the artist and the author.
Edition: One of 250 copies of 280


Place publication: New York
Publisher: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art
Cat. 028 - MPM3
Exhibition 2017

Additional notes:
Illustrated with nine color lithographs and 14 screenprints by Barbara Kruger.

Large folio, bound in crushed aluminium over morocco spine, with a clock set into the front cover, in a cloth drop-back box.

Lithography by Maurice Sánchez at Derrière L'Etoille Studios. Text handset in Century Schoolbook and printed on Rives paper at A. Colish under the supervision of Jerry Kelly. Bound at Booklab under the supervision of Craig Jensen.

Illustrated on page 88 of Splendid Pages: The Molly and Walter Bareiss Collection of Modern Illustrated Books.

Illustrated on page 204 of Artists' Books by Suzanne Swarts; Caldic Collection, 2007.

Ursus catalogue 278, Number 57.

Illustrated as Lot 113 of The Ritter Collection of Modern Illustrated Books and Livres d'Artiste, Swann Auction Galleries, 5/5/09.

See Bonhams auction catalogue 15/12/2009, Lot 5073.

Illustrated on page 146 of The Best of Both Worlds by Jerry Kelly, Riva Castleman & Anne H. Hoy, Finely Printed Livres d'Artistes 1910-2010, 2010.

Illustrated as item 25 in Modern & Contemporary Illustrated & Photography Books. Ursus Books. 2011.

Illustrated as item 46 in Ursus Books catalogue 261 Classics in Contemporary and Modern Art. n.d. (2012)

Illusrated as item 31: Modern & Contemporary Illustrated & Photography Books. Ursus Books, 2012.

Illustrated as item 127 in Artists & Books 1900-Present. Ursus Books, New York, 2014.

Exhibition notes:
Item 028 - MPM3 on Booknesses: Artists' books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection.

UJ Art Gallery, University of Johannesburg

25 March to 5 May 2017



Ref: GB/10962











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