Never Give Up Before It's Too Late / N'abandonne Jamais Avant Qu'il Soit Trop Tard
  • artists' book
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white
  • 15 x 10.5 cm.
  • [24] pp.
  • edition size 1500
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 294015905X

Never Give Up Before It's Too Late / N'abandonne Jamais Avant Qu'il Soit Trop Tard

Martin Kippenberger

Never Give Up Before It's Too Late / N'abandonne Jamais Avant Qu'il Soit Trop Tard

description

Artist's book "homage to paid to Martin Kippenberger by Mamco. This little book contains two portrait photographs [of Kippenberger] taken by [his wife] Elfie Semotan, and a poem written by Kippenberger shortly before his death, which he read at the opening of his exhibition at Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva. The poem was published posthumously." Text in French.

references

No. 148 in "Annotated Catalogue Raisonné of the Books by Martin Kippenberger : 1977 - 1997" by Uwe Koch, Diedrich Diederichsen, Robert Ohrt. New York / Köln, NY / Germany : Distributed Art Publishers / Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2003, pp. 329 - 330.
$400.00
Condition:  Fine. Covers and contents clean and unmarked.
[Object # 38141]