Nov 09, 2021 - Sale 2587

Sale 2587 - Lot 216

Price Realized: $ 16,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 20,000
RUSCHA, EDWARD. Flipping, Kicking, Howling, Rolling, Sitting, Standing, Climbing, Telling. [28] pp. 8 color etchings, letterpress colophon and title page; Folio (20 x 15 3/4 inches; 510 x 400 mm, sheets), bound in full green blind stamped calf (tiny abrasion to rear board); calf-edged linen slipcase. Number 21 of 35 copies, signed and dated by the artist. Each pulled by master printer Jacob Samuel at The Litho Shop on Rives BFK paper. The title and colophon pages are printed by hand-letterpress, and along with the etchings, four blank preliminaries, and endpapers, hand-bound by Klaus Ullrich S. Rotzscher. Increasingly uncommon in commerce, and with only two copies cited in OCLC WorldCat. Los Angeles: The Lapis Press, 1988