Apr 10, 2025 - Sale 2699

Sale 2699 - Lot 139

Price Realized: $ 469
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(ARTISTS--20TH-CENTURY--AMERICAN.) Group of 9 Signatures by 6 visual artists, most on slips of paper. Each approximately 4x9 inches or 8½x16 inches; most with printer's notes in red ink (not touching signature), few with paper clip stain at upper edge, some scattered soiling. Np, circa 1965

Additional Details

Lee Bontecou • Jim Dine • Fritz Glarner (4). Three written on first page of folded sheet forming four 8½x16-inch pages • Jasper Johns • Robert Rauschenberg • Larry Rivers.
These signatures were photographed and incorporated into a poster advertising the 1965 Lithographies d'artistes américains exhibition held at the Galerie Gérald Cramer in Geneva. The final version of the poster was printed in 1965 by New York's Universal Limited Art Editions.
With--Group of 22 items: 6 photostatic prints, each showing one of the signatures, for use in the poster • 15 photostatic prints showing artworks by Rauschenberg and others, likely works from the exhibition that were considered but never used in the poster • a negative showing the completed poster. Each 15x8 inches or smaller. Circa 1965.