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333 - Horst Antes. Sixty-three Offsets. 63 offset lithographs, mostly in color. 1965. 29.5 × 21.0 cm. Ten sheets signed, all numbered.

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€600 - 900

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32%

Horst Antes. Sixty-three Offsets. 63 offset lithographs, mostly in color. 1965. 29.5 × 21.0 cm. Ten sheets signed, all numbered. Call time: approx. 4:12 p.m. (Schedule subject to change) One of 230 copies. - The first ten prints are signed. - The complete series, together with the signed print statement, is loose in the original linen case. - Printed by Eugen Natz, Karlsruhe, on offset paper; 60 sheets have gray screen-printed marks on the reverse. - Horst Antes was an early advocate—and likely one of the first artists—to champion the recognition of offset printing as an original printmaking technique. Hermann Kern wrote the following in an exhibition catalog in 1967: “It is not uncommon for original works printed using one of these new processes to be mistaken for reproductions. This is true of any segment of the public that has not yet grasped that the ‘originality’ of a print does not depend on the printing process itself, but on the manner in which it is applied; that the attribute ‘original’ does not refer to a technical process, but to the artist’s intellectual achievement” (quoted from Lutze, p. 8). - Supplement: Horst Antes. Offset prints with a text from the *Allgemeines Deutsches Reimlexikon* by Peregrinus Syntax—Leipzig 1826—and an afterword by Kurt Martin. Karlsruhe/Nuremberg 1966. With six five-color offset lithographs. Original paperback. - One of 450 copies (total print run 600, all sheets loose). Lutze 352–414 and 479–483, 485 31.5 : 22.5 cm. 63 lithographs, 1 double sheet. - Slipcase slightly faded in places, one corner minimally bumped, cover label minimally stained. English description: 63 offset lithographs, mostly in color. 1965. 29.5 × 21.0 cm. Ten sheets signed, all numbered. One of 230 copies. - The first ten prints are signed. - The complete series, together with the signed colophon, loose in the original cloth case. - Printed by Eugen Natz, Karlsruhe, on offset paper; 60 sheets with gray silkscreen printing on the reverse. - Horst Antes was an early advocate—and likely one of the first artists—to champion the recognition of offset printing as an original printmaking technique. Hermann Kern wrote about this in a 1967 exhibition catalog: “It is not uncommon for original works printed using one of these new processes to be mistaken for reproductions. This is true of any segment of the public that has not yet grasped that the ‘originality’ of a print does not depend on the printing process itself, but on the manner in which it is applied; that the attribute ‘original’ does not refer to a technical process, but to the artist’s intellectual achievement” (“It is not uncommon for original works printed using one of these new processes to be mistaken for reproductions. This is true of any segment of the public that has not yet grasped that the ‘originality’ of a print does not depend on the printing process itself, but on the manner of its application; that the attribute ‘original’ does not refer to a technical process, but to the artist’s intellectual achievement”) (quoted from Lutze, p. 8). - Insert: Horst Antes. Offsets featuring a text from the *Allgemeines Deutsches Reimlexikon* by Peregrinus Syntax—Leipzig 1826—and an afterword by Kurt Martin. Karlsruhe/Nuremberg 1966. With six five-color offset lithographs. Original paperback. - One of 450 copies (total print run of 600, all sheets loose). The slipcase is slightly faded in places; one corner is slightly flattened; the label on the cover has minor stains.

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Auction details

Auction 34: Art & Books - Special Catalog: 20th-Century Artist's Books / Renker Collection, Part 2
Saturday, November 21
12:00 PM
86 A Osterbekstraße
22083 Hamburg, Germany

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Christian Hesse Auktionen +49 4 06 94 54 247 mail@hesse-auktionen.de
On Drouot for 4 years avec More than 1,000 lots published

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