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LOT 6454
SOLD €340,00

Bas Jan Ader, two Art & Project bulletins and one flyer

(1) Bulletin No. 44. Bas Jan Ader, Broken Fall, Westkapelle October 10 1971. Amsterdam, Art & Project, 1971. Single folded sheet, 29.5 x 21 cm, 4 pp. B/w photographic image of the performance on double spread. (2) Bulletin No.89. Bas Jan Ader, In Search of the Miraculous. Amsterdam, Art & Project, 1975. Single folded sheet, 29.5 x 21 cm, 4 pp. with a double-page photographical illustration, and musical score 'A Life On The Ocean Wave' by Henry Russell on rear page.

(3) Exhibition flyer, A4 sheet, announcing a work by Ader (the performance 'The Boy who fell over Niagara Falls'), presented from April 15 - 21 1972. All copies mailed, folded in 3, as issued, with creasing and handling wear. (total 3) Bas Jan Ader (1942-1975) disappeared during the performance In Search of the Miraculous, in which he attempted to cross the Atlantic Ocean from Massachusetts to England in a small sailboat. Bulletin No.89 was the last communication from the artist and became a seminal document to his extraordinary work.

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