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LOT 6094
€100,00 - €200,00

The Themersons. Source material and ephemera

(1) Unposted Letters. Correspondence, diaries, drawings, documents 1940-1942. Edited by Jasia Reichardt and Nick Wadley. Amsterdam, Gaberbocchus & De Harmonie, 2013. (2) The Themersons and the Gaberbocchus Press - an experiment in Publishing 1948-1979. New York, MJS Books & Graphics, 1993. Catalogue, edited by Jan Kubasiewicz and Monica Strauss, with contributions by K. Schippers, Nicholas Wadley et al. (3) Biography of a Publishing House, Stefan & Franciszka Themerson & Gaberbocchus. Amsterdam, Huis Clos, 2017. Extensive chronology and descriptions of all publications. (4) Stefan Themerson, The Urge to Create Visions. Amsterdam, Gaberbocchus & De Harmonie, 1983. (5) Nicholas Wadley, On Stefan Themerson. Printed in Comparative Criticism 12, Cambridge University Press, 1990.

(6) The Films of Franciszka and Stefan Themerson. Booklet and dvd with films. Produced by LUX London and Centre for Contemporary Art Warsaw, 2007. (7) Ephemera, approx. 40 items, including an original paste-up design for Themerson's contribution to The Situationist Times 3, 1963, pp. 58-59 depicting St. Francis and the Woolf of Gubbio; 15 announcements for exhibitions by Franciszka Themerson and Gaberbocchus Press; Newspaper clippings and articles about the Themersons, mostly after 1988; five Gaberbocchus stock lists, 1970, 1974, 1980, 1985, 1990; some correspondence about Themerson exhibitions organized by MJS Books & Graphics New York, Jasia Reichardt, Nicholas Wadley; 1983 New Years card from Franciska and Stefan. All items with provenance K. Schippers. (total approx. 46)

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