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Grassello Ca (OH)2 + H2O. Difesa della natura

Beuys, Joseph

Pescara. Lucrezia De Domizio. 1979
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The chemical formula of the title refers to a truckload of lime shipped from Pescara to Düsseldorf and used to paint Beuys' house.

Stamped, inscribed and numbered in pencil by Beuys on the front cover. Schellmann notes two separate numbered editions of this book, one of 100 copies, the other of 80 copies (plus 20 artist's copies); however all copies were originally designed to be consecutively numbered in a single edition of 200, as is this one.

[Schellmann - Joseph Beuys, The Multiples, no. 311].
pp. 80. 4to. 31 x 23 cm. Illustrated with photographs by Buby Durini. Original wrappers.
#41890