There are visible, alternate vertical stripes, white and blue, from June 15th to July 31st day and night on 50 bus benches [Bus Benches / July 1970]
  • ephemera
  • offset-printed
  • loose card[s]
  • black-and-white
  • 8.3 x 14.1 cm.
  • [1] pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

There are visible, alternate vertical stripes, white and blue, from June 15th to July 31st day and night on 50 bus benches [Bus Benches / July 1970]

Daniel Buren

There are visible, alternate vertical stripes, white and blue, from June 15th to July 31st day and night on 50 bus benches [Bus Benches / July 1970]

description

Single sided pre-paid postcard issued in conjunction with the installations of 50 Buren "Bus Benches" consisting of striped works placed the advertising spaces on bus benches located on Hollywood, La Brea, Santa Monica, Sunset, and Wilshire boulevards in Los Angeles, presented June 15 - July 31, 1970. The project would be recreated in October 1982 with blue, green or red stripes on 51 bus benches in various locations in Los Angeles.

References:
Buren, T IV 36, Bus Benches, Juin 1970.

"Fifty Bus Benches".

Blue, green or red, the bus benches - Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., 1970-1982" – Affichages sauvages.

Photo / Souvenir of One of the "Bus Benches" / 3rd St. and San Vicente Blvd. / October 1982.

references

"Reconsidering the Object of Art : 1965 - 1975" by Ann Goldstein, Anne Rorimer, Lucy Lippard, Stephen Melville, Jeff Wall, Susan L. Jenkins. Los Angeles / Cambridge, CA / MA : Museum of Contemporary Art / MIT Press, 1995, 90, 324.
Los Angeles, CA: Daniel Buren,
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$125.00
Condition:  Fine. Unsent copy, clean and unmarked. Includes "DANILE BUREN" rubber stamped at lower right corner of recto.
[Object # 37973]

There are visible, alternate vertical stripes, white and blue, from June 15th to July 31st day and night on 50 bus benches [Bus Benches / July 1970]
$120.00
Condition:  Very Good. Unsent copy with small stain at top right corner. Includes "DANILE BUREN" rubber stamped at lower right corner of recto.
[Object # 37974]

There are visible, alternate vertical stripes, white and blue, from June 15th to July 31st day and night on 50 bus benches [Bus Benches / July 1970]
$100.00
Condition:  Good. Unsent copy with moderate area of staining along right side of card. Includes "DANILE BUREN" rubber stamped at lower right corner of recto.
[Object # 37975]

There are visible, alternate vertical stripes, white and blue, from June 15th to July 31st day and night on 50 bus benches [Bus Benches / July 1970]
$75.00
Condition:  Fair. Unsent copy with moderate staining overall. Includes "DANILE BUREN" rubber stamped at lower right corner of recto.
[Object # 37976]

There are visible, alternate vertical stripes, white and blue, from June 15th to July 31st day and night on 50 bus benches [Bus Benches / July 1970]
$75.00
Condition:  Fair. Unsent copy, card toned overall. Includes "DANILE BUREN" rubber stamped at lower right corner of recto.
[Object # 37977]

There are visible, alternate vertical stripes, white and blue, from June 15th to July 31st day and night on 50 bus benches [Bus Benches / July 1970]
$75.00
Condition:  Fine. Unmailed, clean and unmarked. This copy lacks "DANIEL BUREN" rubber stamp found on some cards in lower right corner of recto.
[Object # 37979]

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