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Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line
(Best of thirty-six attempts)

Item date(s): 1973

John Baldessari


Pages: (14pp)
Size: 243mm, oblong
Edition: One of 2000 copies


Place publication: Milano, Italy
Publisher: Giampaolo Prearo / Galleria Toselli

Additional notes:
Impaginazione: Piera Crovetti.

Stamps: Arti Grafiche La Monzese.

Title page, 12 illustrations, colophon.

Pages: 323 x 243mm with rounded corners.

Housed in a blue card folder with the title on the cover. In blue drop-back box with title on spine.

Ursus catalogue 278, Number 8.

Illustrated as item 13 in Sims Reed Rare Books catalogue " Books, Boxes & Prints" n.d. where it states: "As early as 1972-3, Baldessari had set himself the impossible task of balancing order and chaos with Throwing Four Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of 36 Tries) and Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get an Equilateral Triangle (Best of 36 Tries), continuing in 1974 with Throwing Four Balls in the Air to get a Square (Best of 36 Tries). GBP750"

Illustrated as item 3 in Modern & Contemporary Illustrated & Photography Books. Ursus Books. 2011.

Ref: GB/11152







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