Musée Marie Laurencin
Published by Kyuryudo Co., Ltd, Tokyo, 1986, unpaginated. (colour & b/w ill.), 24.9 × 23.8 cm, Japanese
Price: €55 (Out of stock)

Marie Laurencin (31 October 1883 – 8 June 1956) was a French painter and printmaker. She became an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde as a member of the Cubists associated with the Section d’Or.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

#1986 #marielaurencin #painting
Chêne de Weekend
Lucy McKenzie
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2009, 124 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 19.2 × 28.5 cm, English/German
Price: €24

This book by Lucy McKenzie presents her work from a three year period in text and image. Her huge paintings illustrate interiors and reference interior design drafts from the 19th century. In these paintings, which are up to eight metres tall, in this book she explains the motivation behind her complex approach. This is complimented by two more written pieces: a fictional account of her time studying Trompeloeil painting at the Ecole van der Kelen (a traditional painting school in Brussels) and a homage to the fashion designer Beca Lipscombe, one of her collaborators in Atelier EB.

Designed by HIT Studio. Cover design by Torsten Slama.

#2009 #becalipscombe #hit #lucymckenzie #painting #torstenslama #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig
Works 1965–2015
Giorgio Griffa
Published by Mousse Publishing, Milan, 2015, 248 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 18 × 24.8 cm, English
Price: €78

Produced on the occasion of the cycle of exhibitions dedicated to the work of Giorgio Griffa at Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva; Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves, Porto; Bergen Kunsthall; and Fondazione Giuliani, Rome in 2015 and 2016.

In 1968, Giorgio Griffa abandoned figurative painting in favour of a format of abstract painting that still characterises his work to this day. Painting with acrylic on raw un-stretched canvas, burlap and linen, Griffa’s works are nailed directly to the wall along their top edge. When not exhibited, the works are folded and stacked, resulting creases that create an underlying grid for his compositions. In keeping with his idea that painting is “constant and never finished”, many of his works display a deliberate end-point that has been described as “stopping a thought mid-sentence.”

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

#2015 #giorgiogriffa #moussepublishing #painting
Date Painting(s) in New York and 136 Other Cities
On Kawara
Published by Ludion, Brussels & David Zwirner, New York, 2012, 280 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 25 × 28 cm, English
Price: €85

This book contains more than 180 ‘date paintings’ (monochrome canvases painted with the date on which they were done). The first part of the catalogue contains the complete series of paintings On Kawara did in New York, while the second part shows the work he created in 136 other cities.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership (some damage to the dust jacket).

#2012 #onkawara #painting
Paintings from 1955 to 1998
Konrad Klapheck
Published by Steidl, Zwirner & Wirth, 2007, 136 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 21.3 × 25.2 cm, English
Price: €35

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Konrad Klapheck: Paintings from 1955 to 1998 at Zwirner & Wirth, New York, 8 November – 22 December, 2007.

This first English-language monograph brings together an astonishing group of paintings that span the course of German painter Konrad Klapheck’s six-decade-long career–from his painterly investigations of technological machines and everyday objects such as typewriters, sewing machines and ventilators to his more recent figurative work.

Includes a conversation with Christopher Williams and a text from André Breton. Designed by Christopher Williams.

#2007 #christopherwilliams #konradklapheck #painting
1999/2000
Francis Picabia
Published by APT International, Tokyo, 1999, Two volumes in cardboard slipcase, 225 pp. & 120 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 18 × 25 cm, English / French / Japanese
Price: €105

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Francis Picabia, which travelled to Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, 12 August–7 September, 1999; Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, 17 October–14 November 1999; Kintetsu Art Museum, Osaka, 26 January–9 February, 2000.

Francis Picabia was a French avant-garde painter, writer, filmmaker, magazine publisher, poet, and typographist. He was one of the early major figures of the Dada movement in the United States and in France and was later briefly associated with Surrealism, but would soon turn his back on the art establishment.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

#1999 #francispicabia #painting