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Codognato, Mario. Rome: Gagosian Gallery, 2011. First Edition. 4to. Boards in Printed Dust Jacket. Exhibition Catalog. Fine/Fine. 168pp, 40 color illustrations. Text in English and Italian. Designed by Graphic Thought Facility. With an exhibition checklist, artist biographies and statements. This is the opulently appointed hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with a 2011 Gagosian Gallery exhibition held in Rome. "Entitled "Made in Italy" it is a group show marking the 150th anniversary of Italy's unification. The exhibition maps an unexpected Italian journey through thirty-eight works by seminal artists of the past sixty years: Georg Baselitz, Jean Michel Basquiat, Joseph Beuys, Dike Blair, Marcel Duchamp, Alberto Giacometti, Douglas Gordon, Andreas Gursky, Keith Haring, Damien Hirst, Howard Hodgkin, Mike Kelley, Jeff Koons, Louise Lawler, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Prince, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman, David Smith, Thomas Struth, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, and Lawrence Weiner. A most handsome example. 1-935263-45-5 Inventory Number: 021418

Janis, Sidney & Dolores Neumann. New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1983. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Exhibition Catalog. Fine.. np (20pp), 17 b&w illustrations + front and rear cover illustrations by Crash. With an exhibition checklist. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the slender twenty page catalogue issued in conjunction with the Sidney Janis Gallery's prescient 1983 show of thirty-six works by seventeen artists presented in an established blue-chip gallery space - many for the first time. Hot on the heels of the emergence of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, "Post-Graffiti" was one of the very first New York exhibitions to bring imagery typically produced for subways and trains into the gallery context - one that helped bring artistic legitimacy to the city's burgeoning East Village, hip hop, and graffiti art movements of the early eighties. The stellar participants were "A-One" (Anthony Clark), Jean-Michel Basquiat, "Bear" (Kwame Monroe), Marc Brasz, Crane, "Crash" (John Matos), "Daze" (Chris Ellis), "Futura 2000" (Leonard McGurr), Keith Haring, "The Arbitrator Koor" (Charles Hargrove), "Lady Pink" (Sandra Fabara), Don Leicht, "NOC 167" (Melvin Samuels, Jr.), Lee Quinones, "Rammellzee" (Stephen Piccirello), Kenny Scharf, and "Toxic" (Torrick Ablack), A brand new, most handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon and important document. Inventory Number: 026023

Washburne-Harris, Jessie & Donald Kennison, Editors. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2002. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Printed Self-Wrappers. Exhibition Catalog. Fine.. np (64pp), 23 color illustrations. Designed by Bruce Mau Design Inc. With an exhibition checklist and bibliographies. This is the sleek catalogue published to document the 2002 group exhibition of twenty-two blue chip works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Gober, Damien Hirst, Jasper Johns (4), Donald Judd, Yves Klein, Franz Kline, Jeff Koons, Barnett Newman, Pablo Picasso (2), Robert Ryman, Jenny Saville, Richard Serra, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol (2), and Rachel Whiteread entitled "The Physical World" held at New York's Gagosian Gallery. From the gallery's press release: "While seemingly diverse, the works all display a particular correlation between object and ground whether achieved two dimensionally or with an actual object. An underlying current of sexuality and death runs through and connects the works in the exhibition". What else is left to be said? A most handsome example. 1-880154-76-5 Inventory Number: 015662