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Auction archive: Lot number 2

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989) As the story was told [Variant r...

Estimate
US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$1,020
Auction archive: Lot number 2

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989) As the story was told [Variant r...

Estimate
US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$1,020
Beschreibung:

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989). As the story was told . [Variant readings... transcribed by Christopher Ricks]. Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press, 1987. 4 o. Original quarter cloth. LIMITED EDITION, number 132 of 325 copies.
BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989). As the story was told . [Variant readings... transcribed by Christopher Ricks]. Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press, 1987. 4 o. Original quarter cloth. LIMITED EDITION, number 132 of 325 copies. [ With: ] BECKETT, Samuel. Nohow On . New York: Limited Editions Club, 1989. 4 o. 6 ETCHINGS BY ROBERT RYMAN Original black morocco; cloth folding case. LIMITED EDITION, number 177 of 550 copies signed by Beckett and Ryman. "The serene, faintly visible white paintings, drawings, and prints of Ryman's Minimalist oeuvre have concentrated and focused attention on incidents within their spaces. His subtle, but visually intriguing, aquatints are placed within Beckett's set of 3 texts, one of which, Worstword Ho , is written in a kind of stuttering street repartee, punctuated throughout with the phrase Nohow on " (Castleman, A Century of Artists Books p.201). (2)

Auction archive: Lot number 2
Auction:
Datum:
19 Jun 2007
Auction house:
Christie's
19 June 2007, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989). As the story was told . [Variant readings... transcribed by Christopher Ricks]. Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press, 1987. 4 o. Original quarter cloth. LIMITED EDITION, number 132 of 325 copies.
BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989). As the story was told . [Variant readings... transcribed by Christopher Ricks]. Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press, 1987. 4 o. Original quarter cloth. LIMITED EDITION, number 132 of 325 copies. [ With: ] BECKETT, Samuel. Nohow On . New York: Limited Editions Club, 1989. 4 o. 6 ETCHINGS BY ROBERT RYMAN Original black morocco; cloth folding case. LIMITED EDITION, number 177 of 550 copies signed by Beckett and Ryman. "The serene, faintly visible white paintings, drawings, and prints of Ryman's Minimalist oeuvre have concentrated and focused attention on incidents within their spaces. His subtle, but visually intriguing, aquatints are placed within Beckett's set of 3 texts, one of which, Worstword Ho , is written in a kind of stuttering street repartee, punctuated throughout with the phrase Nohow on " (Castleman, A Century of Artists Books p.201). (2)

Auction archive: Lot number 2
Auction:
Datum:
19 Jun 2007
Auction house:
Christie's
19 June 2007, New York, Rockefeller Center
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