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(OCTOBER). Copjec, Joan, Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson & Terri L. Cafaro, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Journals, 1988. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Good -.. 120pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over thirty-five years focused critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, photography, performance, sculpture, literature. Contributions to this issue include: The Philosophical Brothel - Leo Steinberg; The Word of God: "I am dead" - Denis Hollier; Foucault's Art of Seeing - John Rajchman. A handsome example from the library of the late R.B. Kitaj showing light overall wear and handling as well as some checkmarks and annotations in ink in the artist's distinctive hand throughout the Leo Steinberg contribution. It has been priced accordingly. 0-262-75194-1 Inventory Number: 018045

(OCTOBER). Krauss, Rosalind, Annette Michelson, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Hal Foster, Denis Hollier, Silvia Kolbowski & Mignon Nixon, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Journals, 1995. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Near Fine.. 138pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over thirty-five years focused critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, photography, performance, sculpture, literature. Contributions to this issue include: Excerpts from The Dutch Group Portrait - Alois Riegl; Postscript: Alois Riegl in the Presence of The Nightwatch - Benjamin Binstock; Haptical Cinema - Antonia Lant; Facturing Femininity: Manet's Before the Mirror - Carol Armstrong; Picasso's Endgame - Leo Steinberg; Dada by the Numbers - John Miller; Pater Nauman - Pamela M. Lee; Just Being Doesn't Amount to Anything (Some Themes in Bruce Nauman's Work) - Isabelle Graw. A most handsome example. 0-262-75224-7 Inventory Number: 021656

(OLDENBURG, CLAES). Oldenburg, Claes. Los Angeles: Margo Leavin Gallery, 1991. First Edition. Elephant Folio. Printed Poster. Exhibition Poster. Fine.. One 24 x 17 ½" sheet printed color offset recto only, 1 color illustration, machine-folded in fourths, as issued. This is the striking poster produced for the 1991 exibition of "20th Century Collage" organized by Los Angeles' Margo Leavin Gallery. The show featured ninety-one significant practitioner of the medium - from Kurt Schwitters to Edward Ruscha and Joseph Cornell to Richard Prince - and subsequently traveled to the Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, and the Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France. The image reproduced is Claes Oldenburg's 1961 ink and newspaper collage on paper entitled "Street Figure (Using Movie Section, with Manhole)". A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon item folded for mailing, as issued. Inventory Number: 026192

(PICASSO, PABLO). Editions "Cahiers D'Art", Editor. Paris: Cahiers D'Art, 1949. First Edition. 4to. Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good -.. 44pp, 32 b&w illustrations. Text in French. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Published in 1949, this monographic Cahiers D'Art publication presents full page illustrations of thirty-two paintings from a total of sixty-five exhibited works executed by Pablo Picasso between 1946 and 1949. Held at Paris' Maison de la Pensee Francaise between July and December, the show was the most comprehensive presentation to date of the artist's post-war output. An internally bright, handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon document - only seven copies are currently cited in OCLC WorldCat - showing some mild wear, soiling, and staining to its cream colored covers along with some separation of the dustwrapper along the bottom edge with the vintage supplemental complete exhibition checklist laid in. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 025376

(PICASSO, PABLO). Geiser, Bernhard. Preface by E.W. Kornfeld. Berne, SWITZERLAND: Kornfeld et Klipstein, 1968. First Editions. 4to. Buckram. Catalogue Raisonné. Near Fine/No Jacket. np, 314 b&w illustrations. Text in French. Published in 1968 in an edition of two thousand copies, this is the second volume of Bernhard Geiser's catalogue raisonné of Pablo Picasso's graphic works that contains illustrated entries for each of three hundred and fourteen engravings and monotypes executed by the master between 1932 and 1934. An uncommonly crisp and bright example of this document bound with its printed wrappers intact into a blue buckram binding with gilt lettering to the spine by the noted late Beverly Hills art dealer Frank Perls showing some light soiling to the edges of the textblock. Inventory Number: 020266

(PICASSO, PABLO). Richardson, John, Claude Arnaud & Elizabeth Cowling. Foreword by Larry Gagosian. London: Gagosian Gallery, 2010. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Fine. 390pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Graphic Thought Facility. This is the elegant hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with the extraordinary 2010 Gagosian Gallery London exhibition of one hundred and seventy-five works by Pablo Picasso from his time on the Mediterranean coast following the second World War though the early sixties. Curated by renowned Picasso scholar and biographer John Richardson, it contains hundreds of illustrations along with texts by Richardson, Claude Arnaud, and Elizabeth Cowling. A brand new, most handsome example of this stunning document. 0-8478-3535-9 Inventory Number: 026025

(PICASSO, PABLO). Richardson, John, Diana Widmaier Picasso & Elizabeth Cowling. Foreword by Larry Gagosian. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2006. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Fine. 300pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by McCall Media. "L'Amour Fou" is the elegant hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with the extraordinary 2006 Gagosian Gallery New York exhibition of works by Pablo Picasso depicting his lover and muse Marie-Therese Walter. Curated by renowned Picasso scholar and biographer John Richardson along with the artist's granddaughter Diana Widmaier Picasso, it contains hundreds of illustrations along with texts by Richardson, Widmaier Picasso, and Elizabeth Cowling. A brand new, most handsome example of this stunning document. 0-8478-3713-0 Inventory Number: 025944

(PICASSO, PABLO). Zervos, Christian. Paris: Editions "Cahiers D'Art", 1975. First Edition. 4to. Printed Wrappers in Glassine. Catalogue Raisonné. Near Fine./No Jacket - As Issued.. 192pp, 465 monochrome illustrations. Text in French. This is the twenty-ninth volume of Christian Zervos' unfinished, monumental thirty-three volume (in thirty-four parts) catalogue raisonné of Pablo Picasso's paintings and works on paper supplementally covering the Cubist years of 1914 through 1919. A most handsome example of the uncommon 1975 first printing whose protective glassine wrapper shows some mild age-toning along the spine. Inventory Number: 022620

(PICASSO, PABLO). Zervos, Christian. Paris: Editions "Cahiers D'Art", 1963. First Edition. 4to. Printed Wrappers in Glassine. Catalogue Raisonné. Near Fine./No Jacket - As Issued.. 174pp, 352 monochrome illustrations. Text in French. This is the fourteenth volume of Christian Zervos' unfinished, monumental thirty-three volume (in thirty-four parts) catalogue raisonné of Pablo Picasso's paintings and works on paper covering the years 1944 through 1946. A most handsome example of the uncommon 1963 first printing showing some mild age-toning whose protective glassine wrapper has some tearing and paper loss at the spine ends. 2-85117-014-7 Inventory Number: 022614

(XXe SIECLE). Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri, Managing Editor. Paris: XXe Siecle (Vingtieme Siecle), 1961. First Edition. Large 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Art Periodical. Very Good -.. np, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Text in French and English. Cover design after Cesar. This sixteenth installment of San Lazzaro's deluxe, semi-annual art periodical features original color lithographs by Cesar, Joan Miro (Cramer #67), and Emilio Vedova. The contents include contributions on or by Carola Giedion-Welcker, Relief Sculpture, Robert Delaunay, Pierre Volboudt, Michel Seuphor, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Jacques Dupin, Emilio Vedova, Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues, Arpad Szenes, Jean Tardieu, Frans Krajcberg, Nastalia Dumetresco, Roger Van Gindertael, Sacha-Alexandre Garbell, Rene Berger, Roger-Edgar Gillet, Denys Chevalier, Anna-Eva Bergman, J.P. Hodin, Antoine Pevsner, Rene Massat, Henry Moore, Jean Xceron, Dore Ashton, Cesar, Crippa, Andre Masson, and more. A handsome example showing a slight dent through the upper foredge corner. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 022274

Corbett, John & Josiah McElheny. Chicago: Corbett vs. Dempsey Modern Art & Uncommon Objects, 2013. First Edition. Folio. Illustrated Wrappers. Art Monograph. Fine.. np (48pp), profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Sonnenzimmer. "In 1913, the year that the Armory Show hit Chicago, an anonymous local artist gathered every newspaper clipping from the infamous Art Institute exhibition into a sensational handmade document. "Freak Art Scrapbook" presents this folk ledger of the key showcase of American and European art in the early 20th century, a collection of witty and vitriolic snippets, much of it dripping with satire as nearly an entire city took to lampooning modern art. Lovingly reproduced in all its bilious, acidic yellow, sporting pre-jazz cartoons that snicker repeatedly at Marcel Duchamp's "Nude Descending A Staircase," the scrapbook in fact turns out to be a complex and many layered artifact, not only a register of the Midwestern response to modernism, but a fascinating glimpse of the central arguments about populism and the vanguard". A brand new, most handsome example of this fortuitously discovered, invaluable document lovingly reproduced by Chicago's estimable Corbett vs. Dempsey Modern Art & Uncommon Objects on the hundredth anniversary of The Armory Show. 0-9884492-8-5 Inventory Number: 022881

Gagosian, Larry. Moscow: Gagosian Gallery, 2007. First Edition. 4to. Gilt-Debossed Boards. Exhibition Catalog. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 90pp, 40 color illustrations. Text in English and Russian. Designed by Dan Miller Design. With an exhibition checklist. This is the opulently appointed hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with the inaugural 2007 Gagosian Gallery exhibition held in Moscow. This show consisted of forty works by gallery stalwarts Cecily Brown, Glenn Brown, John Currin, Dexter Dalwood, Willem De Kooning, Tracey Emin, Tom Friedman, Douglas Gordon, Arshile Gorky, Damien Hirst, Jenny Saville, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein, Sally Mann, Takashi Murakami, Marc Newson, Richard Phillips, Pablo Picasso, Richard Prince, Mark Rothko, Edward Ruscha, Richard Serra, Taryn Simon, Philip Taaffe, Cy Twombly, Piotr Uklanski, Francesco Vezzoli, Andy Warhol, and Christopher Wool. A brand new, most handsome example. 1-932598-55-3 Inventory Number: 020563

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