Jun 17, 2021 - Sale 2573

Sale 2573 - Lot 287

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
HEINZE, FRIEDER and WEGEWITZ, OLAF. Unaulutu. Steinchen im Sand. Artist's book comprising 60 prints in various techniques, 8 drawings and 26 reproductions after drawings by Native peoples, various texts and several playing elements. Folio (approximately 50 x 40 cm), hinged portfolio, front cover brad-bound, incorporates various materials and in addition to the different printing techniques for the book there are also a wide variety of natural materials such as wood, reed, leather, rice grains and handmade paper. Reproductions of drawings by Karaja, notes by the two artists, a treatise on Indian myths of Lajos Boglár, an essay by Klaus Wegener, poetry by the Quechuas of Peru and Chief Seattles speech ‘We are a part of the earth.' Housed in original printed cardboard box and printed burlap bag. Number 106 of 110 copies, signed by Heinze and Wegewitz. An exceedingly elaborate and ingenious production. Leipzig/West Berlin: Verlag Philipp Reclam/Galerie Brusberg, 1986