Paul Thek. New York, Stable Gallery, 1967

Exhibition poster, offset printed dark pink on thin pink tissue, 43.5 x 56 cm, folded twice. Announcement for Thek’s solo show opening on September 19 1967. Features a photograph by Peter Hujar depicting the artist in his studio working on the sculpture ‘The Tomb’.

This work, first shown at Stable Gallery, became one of the best-known installations of the 1960s, often incorrectly titled ‘Death of a Hippie’. It featured a ziggurat-shaped room in which a life-sized model of the artist himself was presented like a corpse. Two pinholes at top margin, tiny tears and rubbing along the folds and the extremities of the fragile paper. Beautiful and extremely rare item.