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Two Books

Item date(s): 1969

Richard Tuttle


Pages: unpaged
Size: 310mm
Inscription: Signed by the artist.
Edition: XXX/50 of 200 copies


Place publication: Cologue and New York
Publisher: Galerie Rudolf Zwirner and Betty Parsons Gallery
Cat. 057-C6-4/5
Exhibition 2017

Additional notes:
Two volumes in original card slipcase with title on the spine together with colophon on a separate card..

Volume 1: 20 pages, black felt covered boards with ten screenprints.

Volume 2: 62 pages, black felt covered wraps with die-cut images.

150 Copies signed and numbered. 50 (I-L) numbered copies for the artist only - of which this copy is XXX.

Illustrated in Field of Stars, A Book on the Books, 2002.

Illustrated on page 312 of Artists' Books by Suzanne Swarts; Caldic Collection, 2007.

See Bonhams auction catalogue 15/12/2009, Lot 5132.

Illustrated on 171of Sims Reed catalogue "Modern Illustrated Books", Item 210. Summer 2010.

Illustrated as item 90 in Ursus Books catalogue 261"Classics in Contemporary and Modern Art. n.d.

See Ursus Books catalogue: TUTTLE, Richard Two Books Two Books. 2 volumes. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 10 screen prints in first volume, illustrated throughout with die-cut images in the second volume. With a loose colophon numbered and signed by the artist. 4to., bound in original felt covered boards and wrappers, in the original slipcase, preserved in a new cloth box. Cologne/New York: Galerie Rudolf Zwirner and Betty Parsons Gallery, 1969.An early artist book by Richard Tuttle. The first book contains 10 screen-prints and the second one contains a series of die-cut pages whose shape/image changes as the viewer works through the book. Total edition of 200, 150 numbered copies and 50 Roman numeral copies for the artist only. This copy 129/150, signed by the artist. A fine copy.

Exhibition notes:
Item 057 - C6-4/5/6 on Booknesses: Artists' books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection.

UJ Art Gallery, University of Johannesburg

25 March to 5 May 2017



Ref: GB/10967


   


   



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