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1287 - Schad, Christian
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Estimate €2,800 - €3,200
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Schad, Christian Gaspard de la nuit. 1980. Portfolio containing 20 Schadographs on card, 1 etching on rolled-out China paper mounted on heavy black Fabriano paper, and 1 text booklet with 10 offset prints based on the Schadographs, 2 woodcuts and 2 hand-collaged Schadographs on BFK Rives paper. Sheet sizes ranging from 48.3 x 32.5 cm to 59 x 42 cm. Each signed, dated, numbered and, in some cases, titled. Loose sheets with title page in an illustrated original slipcase, housed inside a hand-crafted full-linen box (box slightly bumped and scuffed; text book slightly soiled on the outside). One of 40 copies. – Published by Edition G.A. Richter, Stuttgart 1980. – Adkins/Otschik, Vol. III/330–335 / Richter, 126–156. - “It is arguably the most important contribution to the art of the 1960s and 1970s. Neither photography nor printmaking, the Schadographs belong to a still largely unrecognised no-man’s-land of modernism. Between 1976 and 1979, the major portfolios of Schadographs were published: *Hommage à Dada*, *Gaspard de la nuit*, *10 Studies on Bertrand*” (Richter). – Contains: The Two Jews – Haarlem – Scarbo I – The Tulip Merchant – Departure for the Sabbath – The Gothic Room – Scarbo II – Evening Prayer – Viola da Gamba – Hour of the Sabbath – The Fool – Evening on the Water – The Alchemist – The Refined One – The Dwarf – The Salamander – The Dead Horse – Undine – The Two Angels – The Gallows. – Sheets in good condition with a double-sided hand-made edge on each sheet. Portfolio containing 20 Schadographs on cardboard, 1 etching on rolled Chinese paper mounted on heavy black Fabriano paper, and 1 textbook featuring 10 offset prints based on Schadographs, 2 woodcuts and 2 hand-collaged Schadographs on BFK Rives paper. Each signed, dated, numbered and partly titled. Loose sheets with title page in an illustrated original cover inside a handmade case in full linen (case slightly bumped and rubbed, textbook slightly soiled). – One of 40 copies. – Published by Edition G.A. Richter, Stuttgart 1980. – “It is probably the most important contribution to the art of the 1960s and 1970s. Neither photograph nor graphic work, the Schadographien belong to a still barely recognised no man’s land of modernism. Between 1976 and 1979, the large portfolios of Schadographien appeared: Hommage à Dada, Gaspard de la nuit, 10 Studies on Bertrand” (Richter). - Contains: works as listed above. - Sheets in clean condition with a scooped margin on both sides of each leaf.
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About the sale Valuable books, prints, historical photographs
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Auction time 10/24/2026 at 10:00 AM
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