Nov 09, 2021 - Sale 2587

Sale 2587 - Lot 283

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
WEGNER, PETER. A,N,S,W,E,R,S, & Q,U,E,S,T,I,O,N,S,. Text by Wittgenstein, Goethe and Albers. Concept and design by Wegner. 4to, publisher's full black cloth. Number 7 of 100 copies, signed by Wegner in pencil on the rear pastedown. A book within a book consisting of a larger volume containing selections of color theory by Wittgenstein, Goethe and Albers and a plexiglas box containing numerous leaves of variously colored paper. The center of the text block is cut out and inserted in the space is the plexiglas slipcase with the colored paper. "Published in conjunction with 'Peter Wegner: Complete and final color theory superseding all previous theories & pre-empting all future theories with add'l thoughts on the poetry of commerce, the cruelty of systems & the banality of the grid, accompanied by a footnote re: Architecture,' Bohen Foundation, New York, New York, February - May 2004" (colophon). Santa Monica: W.L. Griffin Editions, 2004