STRING & ROPE
Sidney Janis Gallery
[Sidney Janis Gallery]: STRING & ROPE. New York City: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1969. First edition. A very good staple-bound booklet with thick printed wrappers and minor shelf wear including rubbing to the black covers. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.
8.5 x 11 unpaginated staple-bound booklet with 38 black-and-white illustrations. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name: Sidney Janis Gallery, New York City [January 7 – 31, 1970]. Also includes a catalogue of the exhibit.
Artists include Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, Picasso, Jean Arp, Joan Miro, Francis Picabia, Man Ray, Jackson Pollock, Saul Steinberg, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, George Segal, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Watts, Ellsworth Kelly, Christo, Arman, Bruce Conner, Lucas Samaras, Rohm, Hesse, Bruce Nauman, Saret, George Kuehn, Sandback, Walter de Maria, Robert Indiana, Jim Dine, Fahlstrom, Bollinger, Barry, Les Levine, and Flanagan among others.
From the website for the nonprofit The Art Story Foundation [entry by Justin Wolf]: The Sidney Janis Gallery first opened its doors in 1948 and over the ensuing decades became a beacon for some of New York City's most avant-garde artists. Art collector, dealer and businessman Sidney Janis, along with his wife Harriet, swiftly established the gallery's reputation by curating exhibitions of Léger, Mondrian, the de Stijl artists, the Futurists and the Fauves. Beginning in 1952, Janis gave Jackson Pollock the first of three solo shows, further establishing the cultural dominance of Abstract Expressionism. Ten years later, the gallery put on its most famous exhibition, The New Realists. Throughout the gallery's existence, it ably and consistently measured the pulse of the New York art world in showcasing some of the finest and riskiest avant-garde art of the 20th century.