Ewerdt Hilgemann, Book six: Progressive integration of two grids. With 12 embossed prints

Amsterdam, Galerie Swart, 1974. Blank cardboard portfolio with flaps, 30.5 x 30.1 cm. Contains a printed title leaf, and 12 original relief prints, 30 x 30 cm on thick white paper sheets. The prints are made in a limited edition of 10 copies, signed Hilgemann, dated '74 and numbered 2/10 in pencil on the title sheet. The work is identified as G 1974 series 174/2 nos. 1-12. All prints and the title panel are in mint condition. The portfolio shows toning and wear along the margins, with some abrasions on the rear board.

Scarce item by German-Dutch artist Ewerdt Hilgemann (born 1938), who was represented by the prominent Amsterdam based gallery Swart in the late 1960s and early 1970s, featuring a new type of abstract constructivism. His paper and sculptural reliefs and his later 'implosion' works are in numerous public and private collections worldwide, such as Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Humlebæk, Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, Kunsthalle Bremen, Museum for Konkrete Kunst Ingolstadt, Kröller Müller Museum Otterlo, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam and Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art Istanbul.