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Dieter Roth Prints
MACHINE DRAWING, 1963
4703-PR

1/2 BOUGHT FROM EIRUKUR SMITH

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Dieter Roth
Kinderbuch/ Children's Book, 1957
4086-BK

12 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. (32 x 32 cm)

28 pages. Red, yellow, blue, and black geometric shapes, 4-color letterpress on thick paper with spiral binding. A solid color page faces each printed one.

Printed by Hólar Prent, Reykjavik. Published by forlag ed, Reykjavik. Edition of 100.

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Dieter Roth
Dagblegt Bul - Daily-BÁ»l No. 8., 1961
3791-BK

1 1/4 x 1 3/8 in. (3.3 x 3.6 cm)

Approx. 150 sheets cut out of an Icelandic newspaper. Adhesive binding with paper cover; text in French, housed in two-piece cardboard box.

Published by André Balthazar and Pol Bury, La Louvière, Belgium.

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Dieter Roth
Daily Mirror Book, 1962
4128-BK

1316 x 34 in. (2.2 x 2 cm)

Approx. 300 sheets, cut out of the daily Iceland newspaper Morgunbladid. Adhesive binding with thick paper cover.

Unique book; signed, dated and dedicated to André Balthazar: “à a.b. dr 62.”

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Dieter Roth
Kölner Divisionen, 1965
4047-BK

34 x 78 in. (2 x 2.3 cm)

Approx. 150 sheets cut out of Cologne newspapers. Adhesive binding, cardboard box.

Published by Galerie der Spiegel, Cologne.

Copy number 107 of 131; signed.

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Dieter Roth
Quadrat print, 1965
3399-BK

9 13/16 x 9 13/16 in. (25 x 25 cm)

60 loose sheets printed on both sides offset. Enlargements from the daily mirror book, 1962. Printed and published by steendrukkerli de jong hilversum. Edition of 1,000 copies. Inscribed to 'Matti' aka Matreinn Viggosson. With original cardboard cover.

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Dieter Roth
book aa, 1960
1709

15 x 15 in. (38 x 38 cm)

Portfolio of 18 square black and white pages with hand cut rectangular slots of different sizes from 64 mm wide to 2 mm wide. This is the first book of a series of hand cut books. Published by Edition MAT in 1959. Copy no. 28 of a proposed edition of 100; impressed with Roth’s fingerprint, signed and dated Sept. 60.

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Dieter Roth
Edition MAT. Multiplication d'Oeuvres d'Art, 1959
6813-BK

20 x 6 3/8 in. (51 x 16.5 cm)

16 pages with black cover, stapled on one side; illustrated.



Founded in 1959 by the artist Daniel Spoerri, the goal of Editions MAT was to produce original objects in a series as cheaply as possible. All works were proposed in an edition of 100 and all were priced the same at 20,000 French francs (about $400 today). Contributing artists were Yaacov Agam, Pol Bury, Marcel Duchamp, Bruno Munari, Dieter Roth, Jésus Rafael Soto, Jean Tinguely, and Victor Vasarely. The idea was not to make reproductions in the usual sense, but to make multiple originals, mainly kinetic objects, often encouraging the viewer’s intervention.



This is the catalogue from first exhibition of Edition MAT, which took place November 27–December 19, 1959 at the Galerie Edouard Loeb in the Rue de Rennes in Paris.

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Dieter Roth
The Twelve Handcut Books, 1960-67
7622-BK

16 1/8 x 16 1/8 in. (41 x 41 cm)

book a, 1960
Portfolio with 24 black and white sheets. Hand cut slots at 90 degrees in various sizes. Hand written colophon by artist with fingerprint, edition number 19/25. Roth identifies only 60 copies completed in his Collected Works volume 20. Provenance: Jean Parisel
15 x 15 in. (38 x 38 cm)

book aa, 1960
Portfolio with 18 black and white sheets. Hand cut slots at 90 degrees in various sizes. Hand written colophon by artist with fingerprint, edition number 12 with red sticker from Edition MAT. Roth identifies only 60 copies completed in his Collected Works volume 20. Provenance: Pierre Restany
15 x 15 in. (38 x 38 cm)

book b2 (Variation B), 1960
Portfolio with 24 blue and red sheets. Hand cut slots at 90 degrees in various sizes. Hand written colophon by artist with fingerprint and inscription "of this book 25 pieces, (variation b)"; edition size unknown. Provenance: Karl Gerstner
15 x 15 in. (38 x 38 cm)

book e, 1960
Portfolio with 24 black and white sheets. Hand cut slots at 75, 80, 87, 88, 89 and 90 degrees in various sizes. Hand written colophon by artist with fingerprint, edition number 8/25. Roth identifies only 20 copies completed in his Collected Works volume 20. Provenance: Maurice Zeigler
15 x 15 in. (38 x 38 cm)

book h, 1960
Portfolio with 22 black and white sheets. Hand cut slots at 44, 47, 50, 55 and 90 degrees in various sizes. Hand written colophon by artist with fingerprint, edition number 4/25. Roth identifies only 11 copies completed in his Collected Works volume 20. Provenance: Rafn Hafnfjord.
15 x 15 in. (38 x 38 cm)

book b, 1961
Portfolio with 24 red and green sheets. Hand cut slots at 90 degrees in various sizes. Hand written colophon by artist with fingerprint, edition number 4/25. Roth identifies only 8 copies completed in his Collected Works volume 20. Provenance: Jon Hendricks
15 x 15 in. (38 x 38 cm)

book i, 1961
Portfolio with 20 black and white sheets. Hand cut slots at 45 and 47 degrees in various sizes. Hand written colophon by artist with fingerprint, edition number 4/25. Roth identifies only 4 copies completed in his Collected Works volume 20.
15 x 15 in. (38 x 38 cm)

book k, 1961
Portfolio with 23 black and white sheets. Hand cut slots at 45, 46, 47, 50, 52, 75, 80, 85, 88 and 89 degrees in various sizes. Hand written colophon by artist with fingerprint, edition number 5/25. Roth identifies only 5 copies completed in his Collected Works volume 20. With dedication to "Vernor Panton grus!".
15 x 15 in. (38 x 38 cm)

book f, 1964
Portfolio with 22 black and white sheets. Hand cut slots at 45 and 90 degrees in various sizes. Hand written colophon by artist with fingerprint, edition number 14. Roth identifies only 13 copies completed in his Collected Works volume 20. With inscription: " to N.I. with This!, november 64. new haven." Provenance: Norman Ives
15 1/8 x 15 1/8 in. (38.5 x 38.5 cm)

book fb, 1965
hand cut slots at 45 and 90 degrees in various sizes. Hand written colophon by artist with fingerprint, edition number 14. Roth identifies only 7 copies completed in his Collected Works volume 20. Provenance: Manfred Vilhjalmsson.
15 1/8 x 15 1/8 in. (38.5 x 38.5 cm)

book fc, 1966
Portfolio with 22 blue and orange sheets. Hand cut slots at 45 and 90 degrees in various sizes. Hand written colophon by artist with fingerprint, no edition number. Inscription: "Handcut 1966 for Ives-Sillman"
16 1/8 x 16 1/8 in. (41 x 41 cm)

book cb, 1967
Portfolio with 24 blue and orange sheets. Hand cut slots at 77, 80, 84 86, 88, and 89 degrees in various sizes. Hand written colophon by artist with fingerprint, no edition number. Roth identifies only 8 copies completed in his Collected Works volume 20. Provenance: Gudmundur Kristinsson.
16 1/8 x 16 1/8 in. (41 x 41 cm)

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Dieter Roth
book ac, 1964
4422-BK

15 15/16 x 15 15/16 in. (40.6 x 40.6 cm)

Portfolio of 24 square black and white sheets, 20 with die-cut rectangular slots and four with hand cut slots.

Published by Ives-Sillman, New Haven, CT.

Copy 60 of 250. Signed in ink on the title page.

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Dieter Roth
bok 3c, 1961
3846-BK

8 5/8 x 8 5/8 in. (22 x 22 cm)

Approx. 300 sheets cut out of color offset run-up sheets. Adhesive binding, softcover.

Printed by three print shops in Reykjavik. Published by forlag ed, Reykjavik.

Copy 3 of 100 (approx. 40 completed); signed, with dedication to Rafn Hafnfjord, who was the printer.

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Dieter Roth
Bok 3, 1961
3385-BK

7 7/8 x 7 7/8 x 1 1/2 in. (20 x 20 x 3.7 cm)

Approx. 300 sheets cut from color offset run-up sheets. White hand painted cover. Printed by three print shops in Reykjavik. Published by forlag ed, Reykjavik. “extra. Individuum” ex. 2 of 5.

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Dieter Roth
bok 5a, 1961
3848-BK

8 5/8 x 11 in. (22 x 28 cm)

Approx. 60 pages, offset on double sheets with spiral binding; includes one of the original films used in the production.

Printed by litbra, Reykjavik. Published by forlag ed, Reykjavik.

Edition of 100 (approx. 95 copies destroyed); signed and numbered. Copy 22 of 100 (being one of only five extant copies). Dedicated in April 61 to Rafn Hafnfjord, who was the printer. With one original film from the book production.

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Dieter Roth
Untitled, 1960-1971
6103-OR

33 7/8 x 24 in. (86.2 x 61 cm)

India ink wash with pencil on paper. In this drawing Roth recreates the two basic elements used for book 4a, ten years later for the edition Dieter Roth–Collected Works Volume 4 published in 1972 by Hansjörg Mayer, (the source of the drawing). Half of the book is a reinterpretation of his original bok 4a, 1961, the other half is a reinterpretation of his original bok 5, 1961.

Description:
Four 50 cm pencil lines make up a rhombus, an equilateral parallelogram to which Roth adds 18 hand painted stripes that decrease in size from 34.99 mm down to 1.5 mm within this shape. Also visible is a diagonal faint pencil line that exactly cuts the equilateral parallelogram in half to form two equilateral triangles with an opposite arrangement of stripes within them.
On the bottom Roth wrote 4 cm, to scale down to the size that each side of each triangle should be for the publication. These two different triangles are the basis for the whole book being used randomly within an irregular decagon shape, also present in bok 4a, to create a dramatic visual effect with seemingly endless possibilities.
On the left side of the drawing Roth mathematically figures out the width of each of the 18 stripes used to make up the drawing. In bok 4a, 1961, which is much larger, than Dieter Roth –Collected Works volume 4, 1972 he used 14 stripes for each triangular shape, each side 72 mm long.

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Dieter Roth
bok 4a, 1961
893

15 11/16 x 11 in. (40 x 28 cm)

80 pages, letterpress on double sheets, spiral binding.
Printed by Prentsmioia Jóns Helgasonar, Reykjavik. Published by forlag ed, Reykjavik.
Copy 70 of 100 (approx. 20 copies destroyed); signed and inscribed to painter and graphic designer Eugen Jordi.

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Dieter Roth
Federfranse, sich aufloesend - Feather Fringe, self dissipating, 1965
3411-PR

16 3/4 x 14 in. (42.7 x 35.5 cm)

Ink on transparent paper. Monogrammed and dated: D.R. 65. This unique stamp drawing was made for Roth’s 1967 publication, "Mundunculum".

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Dieter Roth
Eiertanz- Dancing Eggs, 1965
3330-OR

16 3/4 x 14 in. (42.7 x 35.5 cm)

Ink drawing on transparent paper. Monogrammed and dated: D.R. 65. This unique stamp drawing was made for the 1967 publication, Mundunculum (illustrated on the double page 167).

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Dieter Roth
Untitled (self portrait), 1965
3909-OR

2 3/8 x 2 in. (6.1 x 5.1 cm)

Original stamp with hand painted self portrait facing the opposite direction. Ex collection Malcolm Grear. Signed "D.R. 65" in pencil on side.

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Dieter Roth
Scheisse (Shit), 1966
4038-BK

9 x 5 7/8 in. (23 x 15 cm)

104 pages, offset and letterpress, hand setting and typewritten, bound with blue paper printed cover. Printed by d. rot and students of Rhode Island School of Design, Providence.

Copy 4 of 200 signed copies with dedication to graphic designer, Pamela Kuehl.

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Marcel Duchamp
La boÁ®te verte. La mariée mise Á  nu par ses célibataires, mÁªme (The Green Box. The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even), 1934
7552-BK

13 x 11 x 1 in. (33 x 28 x 2.5 cm)

One color plate and 93 documents (reproduced in facsimile in the collotype printing plants of Vigier et Brunissen, Paris) box, lined in green silk. 265 of edition of 300. Signed and dated in orange inside box spine. Provenance: Aaron and Barbara Levine.

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Dieter Roth
Poetrie 1 DELUXE, 1966
7381-BK

10 x 5 5/8 in. (25.4 x 14.3 cm)

No. 1 of the bi-annual review of poetry.
26 pages, letterpress on leather pages, hand sewn binding in folding leather box with lead insert.
Total edition of 7. Publisher’s copy No. 0; Collection Rudolf Rieser.

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Dieter Roth
Untitled (Copley book cover prototype), 1965
4197-OR

25 3/8 x 11 5/8 in. (64.5 x 29.5 cm)

Offset reproduction, of a cover of a diary Dieter carried around with him during his time in Providence, RI, glued to board with white paint, signed "For Malcolm DR65." He used this image, added a CMYK printers color bar, and an image of children playing for the final published cover of Copley book, 1966. Ex-collection Malcolm Grear.

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Dieter Roth
Copley Book, 1966
5321-BK

9 x 9 13/16 in. (23 x 25 cm)

30 pieces of loose papers (some folded) of varying size contained within an offset printed folder, all stapled shut, as published. With texts, drawings, photographs, collages, reliefs, letterpress, offset, die-cuts, and embossing.

Printed by P. Lund Humphries, London. Published by William and Norma Copley Foundation, Chicago.

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Dieter Roth
Mundunculum

A tentative logico-poeticum represented as a plan and program or dream for a provisional mytherbarium for visionary plants. VOLUME 1 Rot's VIDEUM., 1967
1733

8 3/8 x 6 1/8 in. (21.2 x 15.5 cm)

336 pages letterpress texts, drawings, rubber stamp pictures. With an original contribution by Emmet Williams.

Printed and published by Verlag M. Dumont-Schauberg, Köln.

Edition of 1000 copies. Dedicated to Jim Butler and dated Reykjavik 11 of May 1970.

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Dieter Roth
Poetrie 2, 1967
4013-BK

9 7/8 x 5 1/2 in. (25 x 14 cm)

301 little clouds in memoriam big J and big G. 48 heavy clouds for Rudolf Rieser.

34 pages letterpress. Adhesive binding, softcover. Part of the edition in white dust jacket. Cover design by Rudolf Rieser, Cologne.

Printed by G. Hohm Cologne. Published by edition Hansjörg Mayer Stuttgart.

Copy 60 of 130, signed. Includes on last page an 'original work' (original drawing), signed.

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Dieter Roth
Poesy 2 Deluxe, 1967
7391-BK

9 3/4 x 5 1/2 in. (25 x 14 cm)

18 sheets, letterpress on both sides of transparent plastic bags filled with dyed glue. Signed cloud drawing on first page and signed on colophon.
Total edition of 7. Publisher’s copy No. 0; Collection Rudolf Rieser.

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Dieter Roth
Poeterei 3/4, 1967-68
961

9 3/4 x 5 1/2 in. (25 x 14 cm)

Double issue of the bi-annual review for Poetry and Poesy.

No. 3, 24 pages letterpress with an 'original rhein' (original collage), signed. No. 4, 44 pages letterpress, closed bolt, with an 'original ram' (original object) signed. Special cover made of goat embryo skin. Printed by G. Hohm, Köln. Published by edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart.

Copy 115 of 230; approx. 40 copies bound in goat embryo skin, remainder in varying kinds of leather. Collection Rudolf Rieser

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Dieter Roth
Poemetry, Deluxe Edition No.4 of the review 'Poeting', 1968
6071-BK

33 13/16 x 10 3/16 x 1 15/16 in. (86 x 26 x 5 cm)

19 transparent plastic bags, letterpress, printed on both sides, filled with minced mutton, stitched on flexible plastic sheet. First bag with original drawing, signed and dated.

Printed by G. Hohm, Köln. Made by Rudolf Rieser, Köln. Published by Divers Press, Köln.

Deluxe Edition, No.4 of the review Poeterei

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Dieter Roth
Literaturwurst, 1968
7411-BK

10 5/8 x 2 3/4 x 2 3/4 in. (27 x 7 x 7 cm)

Pages of German tabloid BILD shredded and stuffed into sausage casing with gelatin, lard, and spices. Roth’s gesture—shredded pages of a text mixed with spices and lard and stuffed into a sausage casing—remains one of the most radical examples of an artist's book today!
Edition of 50. Unnumbered AP copy; signed and dated, “Diter Rot 68”
Collection Rudolf Rieser.

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Dieter Roth
Maschine fur Rots und Riesers Rauchprugel, 1968
7321-SC

7 13/16 x 11 3/4 x 5 1/16 in. (20 x 30 x 13 cm)

A unique prototype for a deluxe edition of the poetry series that was never produced. Roth made this object as a cigarette-rolling machine with smoking paper printed with poetry that would be smoked, i.e. consumed. Signed “DR 68”.

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Dieter Roth
246 Little Clouds, 1968
3462-BK

9 x 6 1/4 in. (23 x 16 cm)

Introduction by Emmett Williams.

176 pages, texts and drawings, offset. Stitched, cloth bound with printed dust jacket.

Published by The Something Else Press, New York.

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Dieter Roth
Little Tentative Recipe, 1969
3771-BK

3 7/16 x 3 7/16 x 3 7/16 in. (8.8 x 8.8 x 8.8 cm)

Approx 800 rotaprints in color, adhesive binding, encased in a wooden box.

Design and binding by G. Paw and J. Wells, Watford, England.

Printed by students of the Watford College of Art. Published by edition Hansjörg Mayer Stuttgart.

Copy 44 of 100 unique pieces, signed “D.R. 69 ” with mailing sticker and postage stamps on box.

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Dieter Roth
Hat Ring, 1971
4455-PR

1 15/16 x 3 7/8 x 5 7/8 in. (5 x 10 x 15 cm)

Edition of only 10 copies. Reykjavík / Luzern, 1971. Contains a gold ring and 5 interchangeable hats: iron, copper, brass, silver, and gold, in brass box. Copy 6 of 10, made by Langenbacher & Wankmiller, Luzern. Signed on the ring.

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Dieter Roth
Stamp Box, 1972
1386

11 x 11 x 2 1/2 in. (28 x 28 x 6.3 cm)

12 rubber stamps, red and black ink pads, 2 bottles of ink, original stamp drawing on lid; wooden compartments inside, painted green; 3 sheets of instructions; in black linen covered box.

Copy 17 of 111; signed and dated.

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Dieter Roth
Der Tränensee (Lake of Tears), 1973
4061-BK

18 1/2 x 13 in. (47 x 33 cm)

Approx. 1200 pages, newsprint. Adhesive binding, softcover.

Printed by Luzerner Stadtanzeiger. Published by Dieter Roth, Reykjavik.

Copy 149 of 150, signed and numbered.

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Marcel Broodthaers
La Conqu√™te de l'espace, Atlas √”  l”šÁ„Á´usage des artistes et des militaires, (The conquest of space, atlas for the use of artists and the military), 1975
6343-BK

1 7/16 x 15/16 in. (3.8 x 2.5 cm)

38 pages in slipcase, offset lithograph, containing silhouettes of a selection of 32 countries of the world shrunk to the same scale as Belgium, with no difference in size, arranged alphabetically. Published by Edition Lebeer Hossmann, Brussels and Hamburg. A tiny and most rare important final artist's book by Broodthaers that plays on language, scale, and function—it is transportable, but useless. This book was published shortly before the artist's unexpected death in 1976 thus all copies remain unsigned and are stamped “Estate M Broodthaers” and numbered by the publisher. Number 17 of 50 copies.

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Dieter Roth Scheisse Serie
Flat Waste, 1976
3773-BK

12 1/2 x 11 3/8 x 3 in. (31.7 x 29 x 7.5 cm)

Artsist Book: Publishers copy of volume made inicially to be sold as a day in the life of the artist which was exhibited at 1977 Documenta IV Kasel but was never sold. He continued with the publisher to keep making volumes and finally a year was sold except this volume which was kept by LH editeurs. This is the number 97 of the 20 of MArch 1976. NOT in DR. CW. 31.5x29 cm

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bok 2b, 1961
3426-BK

12 5/8 x 12 5/8 in. (32 x 32 cm)

Approx. 50 pages, letterpress on double sheets, monotype setting, spiral binding.

Printed by Prentsmioja Jóns Helgasonar, Reykjavik. Published by forlag ed, Reykjavik.

Copy 41 of 100 (approx. 10 copies destroyed); signed.

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