3190 - 4190 FINE ARTS - MODERN ART. PRINTS, DRAWINGS, PAINTINGS and SCULPTURES
= GK.E-1932-2.
AND 1 other etching by the same, St. Ursulatoren (Nieuwe Kerk), Delft (GK.E-1916-5).
- Browned in lower right corner around signature and date. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXII.
- Slightly foxed. = Rare early drawing.
- Yellowed. = With the original metal sjablone for this print.
AND a woodcut by COR BASART.
- Trifle soiled.
= With MANUSCRIPT SIGNED DEDICATION "für Kees Broos, 2 souvenirs aus Basel, 1987, von Dieter Roth" on upper free endpaper and "(f. K.B. S. aus B. v. D.R.)" (upside down) on lower free endpaper. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXIX.
- Seven lvs. partly (sl.) sunned from former framing. Black paper dustwr. sl. dam. at spine-ends w. sm. tear extending in frontwr.
= Dobbe, Books A.3 (XX4, P4) (not listing this combination of col. lvs.). With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION on title/ colophon-leaf: "für Kees Broos, Souvenir aus Basel. März 1987. Dieter Roth". Very rare and remarkable artist's book/ multiple, listed by Dobbe under the heading Concrete Art, Op-Art: "Roth frequently referred to these books as 'concrete poetry' or 'Op-Art', but simultaneously underlined their intrinsic independence of such movements."(p.146). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXIX.
- Crack at the foot of the rabbit's ears; label sl. waterstained.
= Dobke p.16 and 32. "In the late sixties, Daniel Spoerri founded a restaurant in Düsseldorf with a wildly eccentric menu that extended even to dishes with crocodile or elephant meat. In a neighbouring shop he set up the renowned 'Eat Art Gallery', which chiefly exhibited art works made of foodstuffs. Roth and Spoerri had been close friends since their youth in Berne, and in 1971 Roth exhibited the majority of his foodstuff multiples along with several originals in Spoerri's gallery. In addition he created a multiple for the gallery with the very precise, descriptive title: 'Karnickelköttelkarnickel' [Rabbit dropping rabbit]. He had the mould, which is vaguely reminiscent of the forms for the chocolate Easter bunnies, tightly packed with rabbit ordure by the Basle sculptor Walter Moser and left to dry. Each of the total of 210 [sic] copies had a label based on a drawing attached at the bottom, which was signed and numbered by Roth.
The 'Karnickelköttelkarnickel' was and remains the only multiple in which Roth took excrement, as the concluding stage of the organic process of disintegration, as his artistic material. It is remarkable how he managed to take an intrinsically repellent material and produce a droll animal that lacks nothing in aesthetic appeal. Together with Piero Manzoni's cans of 'Merda d'artista' from 1961, this must be one of the few cases in art history in which the end product of the digestive process has been utilized as the fabric of a work of art." (p.16). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXIX.
- Lacks part of the rabbit's body; crack in the head; label waterstained and sm. tear. "(...) With regard to the (...) initial difficulties in forming the sculptures - the rabbits fell apart as they dried (...)" (Dobke p. 16. note).
= Dobke p.16 and 32. "In the late sixties, Daniel Spoerri founded a restaurant in Düsseldorf with a wildly eccentric menu that extended even to dishes with crocodile or elephant meat. In a neighbouring shop he set up the renowned 'Eat Art Gallery', which chiefly exhibited art works made of foodstuffs. Roth and Spoerri had been close friends since their youth in Berne, and in 1971 Roth exhibited the majority of his foodstuff multiples along with several originals in Spoerri's gallery. In addition he created a multiple for the gallery with the very precise, descriptive title: 'Karnickelköttelkarnickel' [Rabbit dropping rabbit]. He had the mould, which is vaguely reminiscent of the forms for the chocolate Easter bunnies, tightly packed with rabbit ordure by the Basle sculptor Walter Moser and left to dry. Each of the total of 210 [sic] copies had a label based on a drawing attached at the bottom, which was signed and numbered by Roth.
The 'Karnickelköttelkarnickel' was and remains the only multiple in which Roth took excrement, as the concluding stage of the organic process of disintegration, as his artistic material. It is remarkable how he managed to take an intrinsically repellent material and produce a droll animal that lacks nothing in aesthetic appeal. Together with Piero Manzoni's cans of 'Merda d'artista' from 1961, this must be one of the few cases in art history in which the end product of the digestive process has been utilized as the fabric of a work of art." (p.16).
- Rolled.
- Sl. soiled and creased. = Annie van de Ruit was a graphic designer, illustrator and artist.
Idem. "R. Shaw London". Lithograph, printed in gold, 27,7x16 cm. - AND 4 others, i.a. a lithograph printed in gold "Moderne balcostumes Gerzon" and 3 etchings by the same.
- Vague scratch in lower left corner (touching the image).