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The Last Time I Saw Ferus 1957-1966 + Invite.
Newport Beach, CA: Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1976. First edition. 4to. Perfect-bound glossy printed wrps. Unpaginated (78pp.). Profusely illustrated in b/w, featuring photographs by, among others, Charles Brittin, William Claxton, Patricia Faure and Dennis Hopper.
Exhibition catalogue for the landmark show that celebrated Ed Kienholz and Walter Hopps’ influential Ferus Gallery.
Includes a complete Ferus Gallery chronology, reproduces thirty-six of the gallery’s announcement posters as well as vintage documentary and installation images.
Lower spine a little bumped; small abrasion from label removal to rear endpaper; o/w Near Fine.
Together with: original invite to the exhibition opening (March 5, 1976). Folded card illustrated with a photograph of Ferus artists Ed Kienholz, John Altoon, Craig Kauffman, Allen Lynch, Edward Moses, Robert Irwin and Billy Al Bengston by Patricia Faure (later a gallery owner herself). Fine.
Scarce with the invite.
Price:
£150.00
