Sep 20, 2001 - Sale 1905

Sale 1905 - Lot 341

Price Realized: $ 1,092
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
S.M.S. [Shit Must Stop]. Edited by William Copley. Numbers 1-6 [complete]. 73 original designs and multiples by contemporary artists including the well-known pieces by Christo, Duchamp, Oppenheim, Baj, Lichtenstein, Nauman, and others. 6 folders; each 14x7 inches, decorative board, few lightly rubbed; some contents bent from folders; plexiglass slipcases, one with a 4-inch crack. not collated. New York: Letter Edged in Black Press, 1968

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This being one of the remaining sets given to the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York by Copley in 1981. The Reinhold-Brown Gallery, in association with the New Museum re-released the sets including a cassette recording of the Terry Riley and La Monte Young music compositions that were made for S.M.S. in 1968 but were not included at that time (also here in its own plexiglass case).