Marcel Broodthaers, Un Coup de Dés Jamais N'Abolira le Hasard (1969)

plus the initial version by Mallarmé (1914) and the adaptation by Pichler (2008). (1) Marcel Broodthaers, Un Coup de Dés Jamais N'Abolira le Hasard. Image. (A Throw of the Dice will Never Abolish Chance). Antwerp/Cologne, Wide White Space/Galerie Michael Werner, 1969. 30 x 32 cm, 32 pp. Edition of 300, offset lithography on off-white paper. Broodthaers' artists' book is a homage to the French poet Stephane Mallarmé's modernist poem with the same title published posthumously in 1914, mimicking the original typography but replacing the words by black bars. Some deluxe versions were printed on aluminium or translucent paper. This is one of 300 copies printed on regular paper. Near mint copy of this rare and remarkable artists' book.

(2) Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898), Un coup de dés Jamais n'abolira le Hasard. Poeme. Paris, Gallimard/Editions La Nouvelle Revue Française, 1914. Fourth regular edition on wove paper. Softcover, 33 x 25 cm, unpaginated 30 pp. Very good copy. (3) Michalis Pichler, Un Coup De Des Jamais N’Abolira Le Hasard. Sculpture. Berlin, Greatest Hits, 2008. Softcover, 32.5 x 25 cm, 32 pp. Edition 500. Adaptation in which the text lines from the original publication are cut out. Mint copy. (total 3)