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LOT 6467
€400,00 - €600,00

Bas Jan Ader. Complete set of Art & Project bulletins, and two exhibition announcements

(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-paged photographical illustration, and musical score 'A Life On The Ocean Wave' by Henry Russell on rear page.

(3) Exhibition flyer, A4 sheet, for the Ader exhibition held from April 15 21 1972, which included the reading performance 'The Boy who fell over Niagara Falls'. (4) Invitation card, 10.5 x 15 cm, for the posthumous Bas Jan Ader show held from Jan. 29-Feb. 23 1985. All copies mailed, in very good condition. (total 4) Bas Jan Ader (1942-1975) disappeared during the course of his project 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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