1489 Rauschenberg

Stockholm: Wettering Gallery, 1989. Hardcover. New, with minor markings to aluminum case from handling. Aluminum case with raised lettering, containing tissue-protected book with black cloth spine and red printed / designed aluminum plate covers. This book is preceded by a cardstock sheet stating the particulars of the book, that it was printed in a strick edition of 500 numbered copies and 30 proofs. 14 mounted and protected (by translucent bound sheets) color glossy photographs, and accompanying text. A very nice publication and presentation. This copy is Number 458 (number found at bottom of rear cover, stamped in the aluminum).. Quite a nice Rauschenberg (truncated) item. Stunning reproductions.Essay by Donald Saff./ "Published by Wetterling Gallery in an exclusive numbered edition; five hundred numbered 1 to 500 and thirty proofs numbered I to XXX"--Colophon./ Aluminum boards silkscreened in red in a design by the artist, with black cloth spine. Each of the 14 paintings exhibited is reproduced in color and glued in one per page./ Issued in aluminum box with title etched on front./ Published in conjunction with an exhibition of 14 works made in 1989, painted on aluminum, steel, or copper, held at Heland Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, and Wetterling Gallery, Gothenburg, Sept. 5-Oct. 8, 1989. (Inventory #: 171515)