May 09, 2013 - Sale 2313

Sale 2313 - Lot 16

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(BERLEWI, HENRYK.) Small archive of pamphlets, exhibition catalogues, etc. by and about Berlewi from the collection of Eckhard Neumann, Bauhaus historian and author. About 12 items. Mostly illustrated. Various sizes and bindings. Condition generally quite good. (IO). Mostly Warsaw, vd

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A group of works by and about the great Polish-Jewish constructivist artist, known for his strong influence on Op Art and his theoretical tract, Mechano-faktura (using mechanical means to create texture), most notably in Herwarth Walden's journal, "Der Sturm." Includes: Colleye. Henryk Berlewi: Poolsch Schilder. Antwerp, 1937 Leaf from Der Sturm, July 1924, listing an exhibition of Berlewi's work Mechano-faktura. 1962 reprint of the 1924 Paris first edition. Inscribed and signed by Berlewi to Eckhard Neumann. Paris: LeClerc, 1962 Mechano-fakturen von Henryk Berlewi situationen 60 galerie dokumentation. Exhibition booklet Inscribed and signed by Berlewi. Berlin, 1963 Henryk Berlewi. Malarstwo. Zielona Gora. Warsaw, 1967 Visuell Konstruktiv. Exhibition book for the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst in Berlin, 1968 Hernyk Berlewi and Mechano-faktura by Eckhard Neumann, reprinted from Typographica, nd 8 photographs of Berlewi ex-collection Eckhard Neumann 4 typed and hand-edited pages (likely Neumann) containing a chronology of his work and an introduction in French, np, circa 1966.