Live auction - Lot 241
The greatest artists of the 1960s in a single box
[Album]
1 Cent Life.
Bern, E. W. Kornfeld, 1964
Hammer price: €
3.000
€ 3.000 / 3.500
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Lot description
Folio: 174 pp., 62 colour lithographs, some plate signed (few sm. creases on edges).
Loose in publ. hardcover (some spots), dust wrapper and slipcase (few sm. stains on edges).
Complete copy of the iconic publication of poems by the Chinese-American artist Walasse Ting (1928-2010) with 62 original colour lithographs by 28 leading artists of the 1960s from the United States and Europe. This includes the major figures of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art and Cobra, such as Pierre Alechinsky (5), Karel Appel (5), Sam Francis (6), Robert Indiana (2), Asger Jorn (2), Roy Lichtenstein (1), Joan Mitchell (1), Claes Oldenburg (2), Mel Ramos (2), Robert Rauschenberg (1), Andy Warhol (1) and Tom Wesselmann (2). Since the lithographs are not bound, they are often sold individually and complete sets are rare. Limited ed. of 2100 numb. copies, one of 2000 unsigned copies (n. 646).
Ref. www.moma.org/collection/works/32063.