- Without no.1; wr. of no. 4/5 sl. soiled.
= Rare publications with theoretical and and polemic contributions on modern art, i.a. by "d.r." (= Dieter Roth?) Tim Threlfall,, Carl Andre, Dan Graham, Guy Williams and Enno Develing. From the collection of Kees Broos and Liesbeth Brandt Corstius.
= Baljeu p. 205; Fanelli 182; Hoek p.767.
AND 5 miscell. others, i.a. DE RECLAME. Year 7, no.12 (Amst., 1928, (tipped-in) plates, ills., samples etc., orig. wr., 4to) and NEDERLANDSCHE AMBACHTS- EN NIJVERHEIDSKUNST. Jaarboek 1919/ 1920 (Rott., 1919/ 1920, 2 vols., plates/ ills., orig. cl./ wr., 4to).
- Trifle creased and yellowed as usual. = Hoek 659b3; Purvis/ De Jong p.79.
- Fine.
= Rare publisher's brochure for the issue of l'Architecture Vivante devoted to De Stijl.
= With SIGNED DEDICATION by the artist: "spelciaal aan Kees Broos. Cesar Domela: .
WITH loosely inserted: Domela. AUTOGRAPH PICTURE POSTCARD SIGNED "Cesar Domela", to "Beste Broos", dated "16-11/80", black ballpoint, recto showing a photograph of Domela in his atelier.
= Apologising that he forgot to give Broos the collage that he had promised him and referring to a possible purchase by the Haags Gemeentemuseum of a work by Domela.
ADDED: Helms, D. a.o. (ed.). "Typographie kann unter Umständen Kunst sein". Ring 'neue Werbegestalter'. Amsterdamer Ausstellung von 1931. Wiesbaden etc., Landesmus. etc., 1990, 143,(1)p., num. (col.) ills., orig. wr., 4to.
- Top of spine dustwr. torn and frontwr. sl. rubbed. = Les grandes monographies X.
- First free endpaper heavily foxed; bookblock broken (holding on cords). Backstrip covered w. tape; wrappers trifle frayed/ worn along edges.
= Juffermans JB5. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXI.
= Arntzen/Rainwater L69: "A scholarly catalogue of the Dutch drawings in the Louvre."
Demonts, L. Inventaire général des dessins des écoles du Nord. Écoles Allemande et Suisse. Ibid., idem, 1937-1938, 2 vols., XII,60; (4),61-148p., num. ills. on 176 plates, bound unif. w. the preceding (sl. foxed). - AND 2 others: F. LUGT (and J. VALLERY-RADOT), Inventaire Général Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris, 1936, contemp. hvellum); Inventaire Général. Les dessins des Écoles du Nord de la collection Dutuit (ibid., 1927).
- Frontwr. yellowed along margins. = Rare.
Minuit 25 Centimes. La Louvièrre, Daily-Bul, 1974, 1 fold. leaf (90x60 cm.), ills., printed on recto only.
= Issue of the Belgian surrealist periodical, w. contributions by Pol Bury.
AND 5 other miscel. publications, i.a. an announcement for the first issue of Vernissage. Kunst - Kritik - Kontakte (1960). - ADDED: a small stack of publications (programs, bulletins) by the Filmmuseum, Amsterdam (1968-1971).
- Most posters sl. yellowed along folds; the poster printed in gold (no.6) sl. thumbed and w. sl. wear along folds; 3 posters lack the accompanying card (see below).
= Complete series of posters by Pieter Engels (1938-2019) and Simon van Es. "One of the threads running through the work of Pieter Engels is the questioning of image and writing - or rather, the undermining of dogmas, values, evaluations, laws and notions of style (in the narrower sense) in the areas and fringes of contemporary visual art.
Owlgass was initially going to be shaped by means of purely linguistic publications, but eventually it became a combination of text and image, followed by a series of artworks. The strength of Pieter Engels texts often lie in their ironizing, relativizing and perhaps badinage (yet paradoxically: with great seriousness), the visual work is often a combination of these elements with which he continually stimulates the dogmatic in the visual arts. The 8 posters were sent in folded form worldwide by the worldwide wandering gallery of Simon Es (Engels alter ego). All the posters sent were accompanied by a card, which the recipient could return with a comment or request to receive a signed deluxe copy for a fee of one hundred dollars." (www.pieterengels.com). Comprises:
1. Temporary Event 1976. I.a. showing pieces of paper w. the names of various artists, and a fragment reading "The average conceptual art is the main reason of the present day, spiritual inflation in modern art because it is academical - boring - similar and rarely visual/(like this piece). Engels (the Rolls-Royce amongst artists)";
2. (Event of repetition) A critic in his time (...). Printed in black and gold;
3. Engels/ a magician amongst artists or a loner without claque. Printed in black and gold, recto showing Engels wearing a magician's top hat and holding a small shield with the aforementioned text;
4. "The impact of art is unchangeable (...)" Recto and verso w. a photogr. portrait of the artist, one showing Engels with a rose and a metal mask w. inscription "a rose amongst (an artificial bouquet of) fading artists";
5. Karl Marx (...). Showing a pair of boots, one w. attached shields reading "Down with mediocrity" and "Down with mass-communication" on the heel and the sole;
6. Engels & Es/ Duchamp. Printed in black and gold;
7. Engels & Es the r/best artists of Holland since [crossed out: Mondriaan] Jansen. Poster for the (fictional) exhibition "Self portrait of a century. Retrospective Museum Of Modern Art, New York";
8. Engels & Es mind-shares. Shows texts and percentages relating to shares and profits of the artists's activities.
ADDED: Idem. "(Project 'Owlglass') The first show of Simon Es, works about Engels". Fold. poster for an exhibition at "Es' (Worldwide Wandering) Gallery, guest of Galerie Yaki Kornblit, 25 Febr. - 22 March 1977", unif. w. the above. - AND 1 similar poster for a Pieter Engels exhibition at Orez Mobiel, The Hague 1979.
= Rare catalogue.
= I.a. Collectie Philippe Dotremont (1954); Sam Francis (1968); Josef Fassbender (1961); Livinus. Fotopeinture (1959); Paul Klee (1963) and Photographie. Eva Besnyö, Cas Oorthuys, Carel Blazer, Emmy Andriesse (n.d.).
- All w. owner's entry on inside frontwr. Contents fine. Wr. sl. worn/ duststoiled and sl. frayed along extremities; spine-ends partly dam.
= With a duplicate vol. of No.5. Beautiful art-deco periodical, also containing alluring and colourful advertisements in art-deco style.