Joseph Beuys. Food for Thought

Kassel, Verlag der Free International University, 1977. Offset lithograph, with butter stain (as issued) and ink stamp on wove paper, 88 x 16.5 cm. Signed 'Joseph Beuys' in pencil to lower edge, with accompanying Free International University stamp in black, and grease stain in lower right area. This copy framed in thin wooden frame behind plexiglass. 89.5 x 17.5 cm.

Issued in an unlimited edition by Beuys's publishing endeavour during the ‘One Hundred Days of the Free International University’ event at Documenta 6 in Kassel. The text contains a food list, the record of a phone call and an Irish poem of the 6th century. The piece was sold to collect funds for the staff of the university. Fine copy. Ref: Schellmann cat. raisonné of multiples and prints 1965- 1985, No. 206.