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LAWRENCE WEINER Turf, Stake and String.
Self-adhesive vinyl sheet with drawings, 1968. 158x219 mm; 6 1/4x8 5/8 inches, full margins. Edition of 40. Published by The Letter Edged in Black Press, Inc., New York. From S.M.S. No. 5.
Founded by William Copley (see lots 236 and 238), S.M.S. was a subscription-based series that intended to bypass the contemporary art market to make art accessible to anyone. Each portfolio contained approximately a dozen works of art and was mailed bi-monthly for about one year. S.M.S.'s six issues consisted of "original reproductions" by artists from Man Ray to Bruce Nauman, and gave collectors affordable access to art for $125 per subscription.
