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Josef Beuys Fluxus. Aus der Sammlung van der Grinten. Stallausstellung im Hause van der Grinten. Kranenburg Niederrhein Hochstrasse 148. 26. Oktober bis 24. November 1963

Beuys, Joseph

Kranenburg. 1963
An excellent example of this important and scarce early Josef Beuys exhibition catalogue.

From the edition limited to 500 numbered copies.

Over 280 works are detailed here - 24 are also illustrated - executed between 1947 and the year of the exhibition, 1963.
[38 unnumbered leaves]. Square 4to. (200 x 200 mm). Printed title with justification and credits verso, leaf with quotations from Dürer and Peladan recto and monochrome photographic portrait of Beuys verso, leaf with exhibition list recto, verso and following leaves with 'Inhalte' by Franz Josef van der Grinten, text 'Fluxus Zeichen' by Hans van der Grinten, list of Beuys' works (282 are listed) and 24 monochrome reproductions of photographs of works by Beuys, each numbered as per the list of works, final blank leaf. Original publisher's red printed wrappers, stapled as issued, the front cover with additional over-printing in black with two small areas of omissions to create a work by Beuys with crosses.
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