Lot 16

This book is housed in a clamshell casing. There is surface residue to the protective plastic casing of the book. Minor ghosting to some pages is evident and natural irregularities within the printing process. There is no foxing, tears or creases and overall in very good condition.


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Portfolio with original lithographs by the following artists: Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Enrico Baj, Alan Davie, Jim Dine, Sam Francis, Robert Indiana, Asger Jorn, Roy Lichtenstein, Joan Mitchell, Claes Oldenburg, Mel Ramos, Robert Rauschenberg, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Antonio Saura, Bram Van Velde, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann and other American and European Pop artists.

"The landmark artist's book of 1964, 1¢ Life is now celebrated, canonical, and rare. Produced with the painter Sam Francis, it was published in 1964 by E. W. Kornfeld of Bern, Switzerland. The 170 lithograph pages were printed in Paris by Maurice Beaudet; the typography is handset letterpress by George Girard. Revolutionary in its assemblage of artifacts of Pop, 1¢ Life is a compact visual manifesto of the 1960s—bright, psychedelic, and pulsating, a collaboration of artists who came together under Ting's poetic street magic."
Anna Heyward for the Gagosian