BEUYS, JOSEPH
1921 KREFELD - 1986 DÜSSELDORF


Title: Ich kenne kein Weekend.
Date: 1972.
Maggi flask and Reclam book "Kritik der reinen Vernunft" by Immanuel Kant, in wooden box.
Signed on the first page of the book. As well as numbered verso on the edition label:
4/10. Stamped on the book cover: "BEUYS: ich kenne kein Weekend". Wooden box: 52 x 66 x
8cm. Der Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (publisher). Number: 4/10.


Condition:
Book edges minimally discoloured. Occasional minimal rubbings to the book. Minimal accumulations of dust in the box. Otherwise very good condition.

Multiple after the portfolio "Weekend" issued by the Galerie René Block, Berlin, in a briefcase with the same ready-made-multiple by Beuys as well as prints by KP Brehmer, KH Hödicke, P. Hutchinson, A. Köpke, S. Polke and W. Vostell. Originally, 95 copies of the briefcase were planned, but only 75 were realized, 10 of them as wooden boxes and 65 as cases.

Literature:
- Schellmann, Jörg (ed.): Joseph Beuys - Die Multiples, Werkverzeichnis der Auflageobjekte und Druckgraphik, Munich 1992 (7th ed.), cat. rais. no. 51.


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