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is the mirror, with its perhaps incomparable quality of provoking internal reflection: “Walking among such works, on a floor devoted to [Pistoletto’s] art, is like being confronted with an almost unbearable reality. I feel acutely self-conscious and challenged, as my reflected self briefly passes through images of a car, a woman with a camera, and a crowd of people. ‘There is no limit to the reflection of the mirror,’ he says. ‘We have this possibility to exist in the mirror, to appear and to disappear. And so we see that our existence is a very limited period of time. Mirrors are not the expression of my will or my feelings, but a phenomenological effect’” (Jones). The editor Jacques Meuris (1923–1993) was a Belgian photographer, prolific art critic, and Professor emeritus at l’École supérieure des arts visuels in Brussels. Square octavo. Original white wrappers lettered in black, black-flecked transparent front and rear free endpapers, leaves and binding unsewn. Housed in the original mirror-glaze perspex slipcase. Illustrations throughout, including a tipped- in reflective card, as issued. A fine, fresh copy, the slipcase with a couple of marks. ¶ Danièle Gillemon, “Critique d’art, ecrivain, photographe Jacques Meuris est mort: Une plume avertie”, Le Soir , 15 Dec. 1993; Jonathan Jones, “Michelangelo Pistoletto: the artist with a smashing way to save the world”, The Guardian , 28 May 2014, both accessible online. £1,250 [154404]
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four colours, 103 full-page illustrations. Spine slightly faded otherwise near-fine in darkened slipcase. ¶ Cramer 113; Freitag 9666. £2,000 [153862] 135 PISTOLETTO, Michelangelo; MEURIS, Jacques (ed.) Le Miroir comme tableau. Brussels & Paris: Les Maîtres de forme contemporains & Liliane et Michel Durand-Dessert, 1993 HOLDING THE MIRROR UP TO NATURE First and limited edition, number 24 of 120 copies signed and numbered by the artist and the editor; a further 30 copies were printed, half of them proofs and half not for sale. Michelangelo Pistoletto (b. 1933) was a leading figure of the late 1960s Italian art movement “arte povera” (“poor art”), which sought to transform cheap and everyday materials into works of beauty. For Pistoletto, one of the most evocative of such objects
Zwemmer Ltd. & André Sauret, 1961 WITH FOUR ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS
First UK edition, published simultaneously with the French edition. The work contains four lithographs executed by Picasso for this work: “La Pique”, “Le Picador II”, “Jeu de la Cape”, and “Les Banderilles”. Sabartés (1881–1968) was an artist, poet, and writer, as well as a close personal friend of Picasso: “the friendship of Picasso and Sabartés, in later years the artist’s secretary, goes back more than 60 years, to their youth in Barcelona” ( The Artist and the Book 240). This edition was printed in September 1961 by Draeger Frères; the lithographs were printed by Mourlot Frères. Oblong folio. Original red cloth, titles to spine in black, illustration to front cover in black, illustrated endpapers. With the publisher’s illustrated slipcase, spine lettered in black. With 4 original lithographs, 3 in black, 1 in twenty-
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