3-Gänge Menü Ausstellung:eine Artikulation um das Alphabet
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CATALOGUE
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anonymus										2fernandez arman								2césar baldaccini								3alighiero boetti								3henri chopin									4jean degottex									5erik dietman								5oswald egger									6jochen gerz									6isidore isou									7bruno jakob									7joe jones										8milan knizak									9jiri kolár								 9-10
ferdinand kriwet							10helmut löhr								11sarah lucas								11pieter laurens mol 							12franz mon								12-21markus raetz							21peter roesch								22dieter roth							 23-24
gerhard rühm								24takako saito								25konrad balder schäuffelen					 25-26
morten søndergaard							27andré thomkins								 27-28
jiri valoch								 28-29
wolf vostell								 29-30
herman de vries							30herbert zangs							
31anonymus
THIS IS A PERMANENT ERROR, I’VE GIVEN UP.
SORRY IT DIDN’T WORK OUT
2013
Digital print
40 x 40 cm
NOT FOR SALE

fernandez arman
LIVRE BRÛLÉ / BURNED BOOK
1988
Bronze sculpture from an edition of 100 signed andnumbered.
Size : 27 x 23.5 x 10.5 cm
Provenance: Raphaël Levy, Kunsthändler, Zürich,Schweiz€ 5000.-2

césar baldaccini
DISSOLVED REALITY (IL REALE DISSOLUTO)
1966-68
10 reliefs, painted cardboard, and Perspex + book31.7 x 25.5 x 9.5 cm
Edition of 99 + 16 „ad personam“, signed by Cesar andArturo Schwarz
Numbered 102
Provenance: Raphaël Levy, Kunsthändler, Zürich, Schweiz€ 4000.-alighiero boetti
LASCIARE IL CERTO X L’INCERTO
UndatedEmbroidery
21 x 23 cm
NOT FOR SALE

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henri chopin
JOIE21.3.1977
Typewriter poem and pencil shavings with which hewrites the word “JOIE”, partially covered with paper
tape. Dedicated “pour Jean” and signed in pencil.
20 x 33 cm
Provenance: Raphaël Levy, Kunsthändler, Zürich, Schweiz€ 8000.-									AMUSEMENT GRAPHIQUE
1977
Typewriter poem. Color inks on paper, signed and datedin pencil.
32 x 19.5 cm
Provenance: Raphaël Levy, Kunsthändler, Zürich, Schweiz€ 8000.LES FILTRES DE L’ALPHABET ET DE L’€ – OU LA PUISSANCE
DE L’UTOPIE.
2001 – 2004
6 copies together
Ink, coffee filter, coffee and pencil on paper pasted ona white cardboard.
Each signed on the right bottom.
99 x 86 cm€ 9000.- (all together)4jean degottex
SKETCHBOOKUndated
ca. 30 pages
Provenance: Raphaël Levy, Kunsthändler, Zürich, Schweiz€ 7000.-erik dietman
QUELQUES MÈTRES ET CENTIMÈTRES DE SPARADRAP : A SHORTSTORY / A FEW METERS AND CENTIMETERS OF STICKING PLASTER : A SHORT STORY
1963
18,5 x 12,5 cm
Book completely wrapped with sticking plaster (sparadrap). On the cover, a label with the title printed.
Signed, dated and numbered in black ink by Dietman
Edition of 200, all different
Published in the catalog Erik Dietman, Centre
Pompidou-MNAM, Paris,
1994, Page 23
Provenance: Raphaël Levy, Kunsthändler, Zürich, Schweiz€ 1400.5

oswald egger
ES GENÜGT MIR, WENN ICH DENKE, DASS ICH SPRECHE /FOR ME, IT IS ENOUGH TO THINK THAT I TALK
1999
Enamel plate
40 x 30 cm
Edition: 10Signed and numbered on the back (label)
Edition Howeg, Zurich, Switzerland€ 1400.RESERVED

jochen gerz
THE FRENCH WALL (FW 33)
DREI BRIEFE DIE ER BEIM LESEN MIT FARBE BEDECKTE /THREE LETTERS WHICH HE COVERED WITH PAINT WHILE READING
THEM / TROIS LETTRES QU’IL RECOUVRE DE
COULEUR EN LES LISANT
1973
Triptych consisting of 3 letters in which the text has
been covered with brown paint, and framed side by side,
each respectively numbered from 1 to 3, signed, datedand titled. In their original frame.
102 x 52 cm
Published pp 212-213 in the book “Jochen Gerz,
The French Wall”
Provenance: Raphaël Levy, Kunsthändler, Zürich, Schweiz€ 5000.6

isidore isou
LETTRISME ET HYPERGRAPHIE
Éditions Georges Fall1972
Special edition. One of 75 hand-numbered copies withthe suite of original gouaches and ink drawings (21works), each one signed and dated by Jean-Bernard Arkitu, Edouard Berreur, Gérard-Philippe Broutin, FrançoiseCanal, Jean-Paul Curtay, Myriam Darrell, Jean-PierreGillard, Micheline Hachette, Isidore Isou, Alain deLatour, Maurice Lemaître,Patrick Poulain, François Poyet, Roland Sabatier, Jean-Louis Sarthou, Alain Satié,
Jacques Spacagna, Frédéric Studeny, Jacqueline Tarkieltaub, Dany Tayarda, Jean-Jacques Venturini.
Provenance: Raphaël Levy, Kunsthändler, Zürich, Schweiz€ 5000.-bruno jakob
MIND - BLOWING QUIVER
Invisible Expandable and Breathing Images
2016
Sketchbook
Technical Materials: Brave, Tender, Gorgeous, Miraculous, Extraordinary, Astonishing, Brillant, Joyful,Amazing, Rich, Iconic, Fabulous, Touching, Breathtaking, Dazzling, Terrific, Imagination, Immersive,Galvanizing, Illuminating, Hypnotic, Beautiful, Sublime,Transcendent, Hilarious and so on.
21 X 16 cm
Provenance: Raphaël Levy, Kunsthändler, Zürich, Schweiz
NOT FOR SALE
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joe jones
BELLS FOR SLEEPING CAT AND YOKO ONO
1964-67
Sound sculpture
31 x 24 x 40 cm
Signed and dated.
€ 5000.-

SOLAR MUSIC KIT
1981-83
ca. 50 x 33.5 x 13 cm
Signed and dated.
Edition of 13€ 5000.-8

milan knizak
DESTROYED MUSIC – BURNED RECORDS
1963 – 1983
3 records, overpainted, burned or divided and glued together. Two of them titled, signed and dated.
ø 30 cm
Provenance: Raphaël Levy, Kunsthändler, Zürich, Schweiz€ 4000.- all together

jiri kolár
TWO COLLAGES (DOUBLE-SIDED) ON CARDBOARD.
1980
1. Ruhe Sal.
Monogrammed and dated bottom right.
2. UntitledSigned, dated and titled.
40 x 30 cm
Provenance: Galerie Maeght, Paris
Bergman Collection, 1982
Provenance: Raphaël Levy, Kunsthändler, Zürich, Schweiz€ 5000.-9

jiri kolár
7. 0 - 2
1982
Collage of printed text on wood with a relief.
Signed and dated on the back
40 x 30 cm
Provenance: Raphaël Levy, Kunsthändler, Zürich, Schweiz€ 3000.-ferdinand kriwet
UNTITLED
06.08.1980
Pencil drawing on paper
Signed and dated on the bottom right.
10 x 15 cm€ 1200.-10

helmut löhr
CAPITAL 1
1988
Artist book in brown and black binding, containing asheet of wove paper folded to fit in the book. Deployed,
it shows a large visual poem of printed words made fromthe lexicon definition (manipulated text) of the word
„Capital“. A nice work by an artist who unfortunately
died too young.
Size of the book: 30 x 32 cm
Size deployed: 110 x 70 cm
Signed and dated.
Provenance: Raphaël Levy, Kunsthändler, Zürich, Schweiz€ 1400.-sarah lucas
FIVE LISTS
1991
Graphite on paper in five parts. 130 swear words sorted
alphabetically.
Each 22.9 x 17.8 cm
FramedProvenance: Sadie Coles, London Christie’s, First Open
Post-War and Contemporary Art, Sale 2421, Lot 227, New
York, Rockefeller Plaza, 10 March 2011
Literatur: Y. Dziewior and B. Ruf, eds., Sarah Lucas
Catalogue Raisonné
1989-2005, Ostfildern-Ruit 2005, p. 117.
Provenance: Raphaël Levy, Kunsthändler, Zürich, Schweiz
SOLD
11pieter laurens mol
CONCRETE POEM
1974
Four cast concrete letters P, O, E and M tied together
with a string.
Edition of 25, numbered and signed.
7 x 12 x 10 cm
Provenance: Raphaël Levy, Kunsthändler, Zürich, Schweiz€ 7000.-franz mon
WEISS AUF ROT AUF SCHWARZ
05.04.1961
Reisscollage
Signed, dated and titled on the back.
46 x 35.5 cm
Published in Franz Mon Frankfurter Kunstverein Steinernes Haus am Roemerberg 5.5 - 1.6.1986 + Die Kuenstlerfreundschaft zwischen Franz
Mon und Carlfriedrich Claus.
€ 9000.-12

franz mon
DUISBURGER SEZESSION
1961
Streifencollage
Signed on the back.
20.6 x 50.2cm
Published in Die Kuenstlerfreundschaft zwischen Franz
Mon und Carlfriedrich Claus.
Exhibited in the exhibition « Schrift und Bild » in
1963 at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden.
€ 9000.UNTITLED
1961
Streifencollage
Signed and dated on the back.
20.6 x 50.2 cm
Published in Die Kuenstlerfreundschaft zwischen
Franz Mon und Carlfriedrich Claus.
€ 9000.UNTITLED
UndatedPress-text
Signed on the back.
30 x 15 cm€ 2000.NOT EXHIBITED

13franz mon
UNTITLED(left)
27.05.1961
Streifencollage
Signed and dated on the back.
42 x 13 cm€ 4000.AVAILABLE BUT NOT EXHIBITED

UNTITLED(right)24.04.1962
Streifentext
Signed and dated on the back.
Ca. 30 x 11 cm€ 5000.-14

franz mon
SENKRECHTE
03.06.1962
Typoscript
Signed, titled and dated on the back.
29.6 x 21 cm
Published in Franz Mon Frankfurter Kunstverein Steinernes Haus am Roemerberg 5.5 - 1.6.1986.
€ 5500.-TU
1962
Streifentext
Signed, dated and titled on the back.
29 x 30 cm
Published in Die Kuenstlerfreundschaft zwischen Franz
Mon und Carlfriedrich Claus.
NOT FOR SALE (Privat collection, Switzerland)15

franz mon
UNTITLED
1962
Streifentext
Collage made of several strips of paper.
Signed (monogramm) and dated on the back.
13.5 x 10 cm
Published in edition et 2, 1966.
Provenance: Raphaël Levy, Kunsthändler, Zürich, Schweiz€ 4000.-BOXEN
1963
Press-text
Signed and dated on the back.
Exhibited in the exhibition « Schrift und Bild » in
1963 at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden.
60 x 40 cm€ 8000.-16

franz mon
UNTITLED
21.08.1963
Reisscollage
Signed and dated on the back
30 x 30 cm€ 3500.-

AMOURETTE
1964
Zentrierte Collage
Collage made of several layers of magazines torn in thecenter.
Signed and dated on the front
34.3 x 24.2 cm€ 5000.-17

franz mon
ALTDEUTSCH
1964
Zentrierte Collage
Collage made of several layers of magazines torn in thecenter.
Titled and dated on the back.
33 x 25 cm
Exhibited at Frankfurter Kunstverein. Steinernes Haus
am Römerberg, 05.05.1986 – 01.06.1986€ 7000.-UNTITLED
1964
Zentrierte Collage
Collage made of several layers of magazines torn in thecenter.
Signed and dated lower left.
33 x 25 cm€ 7000.          

18franz monO-FIGÜRATION
07.02.1966
Typoscript
Signed, dated and titled on the back.
21 x 29 cm
Published in Frankfurter Kunstverein Steinernes Haus
am Roemerberg 05.05.1986 - 01.06.1986 and in Die Kuenstlerfreundschaft zwischen Franz Mon und Carlfriedrich
Claus.
SOLDWEGEN DER BRENNENDEN AKTUALITÄT09.11.1969
Zentrierte Collage
Collage made of several layers of newspapers torn inthe center.
Signed and dated on the front.
35 x 27.5 cm
Published in the book “Die Künstlerfreundschaft
zwischen Franz Mon und Carlfriedrich Claus”, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, page 182.
Exhibition: Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, 2010.
Provenance: Raphaël Levy, Kunsthändler, Zürich, Schweiz€ 8000.-19

franz mon
J-O-FIGÜRATION
07.02.1970
Typoscript
Signed, dated and titled on the back.
21 x 29 cm
Published in Frankfurter Kunstverein Steinernes Haus am
Roemerberg 05.05.1986 - 1.6.1986 AND Die Kuenstlerfreundschaft zwischen Franz Mon und Carlfriedrich Claus.
Provenance: Raphaël Levy, Kunsthändler, Zürich, Schweiz
NOT FOR SALENICHT GROESSER SCHNELLER MUSS MAN SEIN
21.02.1971
Signed and dated on the back.
Ca. 30 x 40 cm
Published in Franz Mon «hoeren ohne aufzuhoeren».
€ 8000.-20

franz mon
UNTITLED1982
Typewriter text on paper which has been torn and fixedagain on another sheet of paper.
Signed and dated on the back.
Size: 24.5 x 33 cm
Provenance: Raphaël Levy, Kunsthändler, Zürich, Schweiz€ 3000.-markus raetz
REVUE INTEGRATION 5 UND 6No. 5/6, April 1966
Revue voor de nieuwe konseptie in kunst en kultuur.
Review for a new conception in culture and art.
Zeitschrift für eine neue konzeption der kunst und kultur.
editor: herman de vries
Mit Originalbeiträgen von: Herbert Distel, Markus Raetz(2 Originale handsignierte Arbeiten), Christian Megert,
Raymund Girke
Edition (Geplant): 300, nummeriert.29.7 × 21 cm
Provenance: Raphaël Levy, Kunsthändler, Zürich, Schweiz
NOT EXHIBITED
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peter roesch
UNTITLED
Overpainted notebook
23 pages plus cover overpainted with ink, pencil
and pen.
Signed on the last page.
21 x 29 cm
Provenance: Raphaël Levy, Kunsthändler, Zürich, Schweiz€ 3500.-2016 - 2017
Overpainted book of photography by FRANCOIS HALARD
ca. 270 pages + cover all covered with ink, pencil,felt pen, gouache.
Signed and dated
33 x 24 cm
Provenance: Raphaël Levy, Kunsthändler, Zürich, Schweiz€ 10000.-22

dieter roth
COLLECTED WORKS VOLUME 5
BOK 3 A1970
Reconstruction of the book as published by Forlag,1961. Approximately 250 cut-out sheets of Icelandic
newspapers.
23 x 17 cm
One of 50 copies designed by Dieter Roth(4 variations), black imitation leather embossed, with
2 signed and numbered lino-cuts inside.
Published by Hansjörg Mayer.
Literature: Books + Multiples, page 155.
Provenance: Raphaël Levy, Kunsthändler, Zürich, Schweiz€ 3000.-

COLLECTED WORKS VOLUME 11SNOW
1970
256 pages, offset
23 x 17 cm
Stitched softback.
1 of 100 copies designed by the author.
Covered corrugated cardboard with 2 crushed
light-bulbs, both signed by the author. Not numbered.
Literature: Books + Multiples, page 164.
Provenance: Raphaël Levy, Kunsthändler, Zürich, Schweiz€ 3500.23

dieter roth
TROPHIES
125 two-handed speedy drawing
1979
256 pages, offset 2 colors, 25 x 18 cm, stitched,softback, with double dust-jacket and an original
Trophy by the author, signed and dated.
The book is signed, dated and numbered 72/200.
Literature: Books + Multiples, page 197.
Provenance: Raphaël Levy, Kunsthändler, Zürich, Schweiz€ 1900.-gerhard rühm
BALD-NUN-EBEN / SOON-NOW-JUST
1989
Word-objectMultiple
Wood, cardboard, glass.
Edition of 25, signed and numbered in pencil
on the back.
22.5 x 16.5 x 4 cm
Publisher: Galerie Schüppenhauer.
Provenance: Raphaël Levy, Kunsthändler, Zürich, Schweiz€ 1500.-24

takako saito
BUCH DER BRUST / BOOK OF BREAST
1984
Gouache, pen, pencil, crayons, copper and thread,
handmade cardboard box, cellophane, 10 pp.
Edition of 8 copies, signed and numbered.
14.5 x 3 x 12.5 cm
Noodle Edition, Dusseldorf
Provenance: Raphaël Levy, Kunsthändler, Zürich, Schweiz€ 1500.RESERVED

konrad balderschäuffelen
HALSLOESERAETSEL
1970
Clay tablet, stamped, monogrammed and dated on the underside.
14 x 6.5 x 2 cm
€ 1000.-25

konrad balderschäuffelen
PYRAMID: EIN TEXT DECKT DEN ANDEREN /PYRAMID: A TEXT COVERS ANOTHER
1980
Pages of books cut in squares and fixed to one another,making a pyramid set to a wooden base.
Titled on the peak «ein text deckt den anderen», signedand dated on the first block of pages.
25 x 25 x 22 cm€ 2400.-PESTBUCH / PLAGUE BOOK
1979
Multiple
Aluminum, plastic.
Mobil 1 oil canister made of aluminum with plastic cap,bulged on the side and soldered to resemble a book.
Known as the plague book.
Incised monogramm “KBS”, dated 1979 and numbered. Published in an edition of 20 numbered copies plus someartist’s copies.
21 x 15 x 6.5 cm.
€ 1200.-26

morten søndergaard
WORDPHARMACY2011
Ten medicine boxes, each representing one of the tenword classes.
Translated into English by Barbara Haveland and designed by Christian Ramsø.
Published by Broken Dimanche Press.
Edition: 500
NOT FOR SALE

andré thomkins
DOGMA MOT
1965
Edition MAT MOT nr 5.
A polyglot text-generating ‘machine’ which allows theuser to produce “mobile dogmas” consisting of ten
hexagonal cards, each with 12 words that are common inGerman, English and French (there are 48 German-French,
60 German-English and 12 German-French-English words).
The hexagons pivot on a plane and form phrases inthree directions on the hexagonal roof.
28 x 28 x 3.8 cm (closed box)
Edition : 111, signed, numbered and dated.
Provenance: Raphaël Levy, Kunsthändler, Zürich, Schweiz€ 4000.27

andré thomkins
IN GOETHES NAMEN
1982
4 different states of a same work for the special edition of the book «In Goethes namen».
From left to right:
1. Yellow stamp on a cardboard with instruction fromThomkins to the editor (Howeg), as to how the chain
should be fixed to the card.
2. Yellow stamp on a cardboard augmented with a pencil
drawing by Thomkins
3. Yellow stamp with the chain.
4. Yellow stamp with the chain and some addition ofpencil on the headAll signed and dated with full name, except the firstone which is signed with the initial of Thomkins.
Provenance: Raphaël Levy, Kunsthändler, Zürich, Schweiz€ 800.AVAILABLE BUT NOT EXHIBITED

jiri valoch
DEATH BOOK
1968
64 pages, 34 phrasesSigned on the back cover.
20,5 x 14.5 cm
Provenance: Raphaël Levy, Kunsthändler, Zürich, Schweiz€ 5000.28

jiri valoch
MEMORY - HISTOLOGICAL POEM
1972
Photo and letraset, signed, dated and titled on the back
25 x 18 cm
Provenance: Raphaël Levy, Kunsthändler, Zürich, Schweiz€ 1400.-wolf vostell
BETONBUCH / CONCRETE BOOK
1971
Concrete book with incised signature and number on metal plate.
Edition : 100
34 x 35 x 4,5 cm€ 7000.-29

wolf vostell
BERLINER BROT / BERLINER BREAD
1995
Bread, TV and Concrete
Edition : 50ca. 50 cm diameterSigned and numbered.
€ 2500.-herman de vries
UNTITLED
FROM THE SERIES ARTEFACT
1979
Collage of a cigarette pack fixed on paper, signed on
the right side and annotated on the left side : collected: 27 8 1979 saubühl
Size of the sheet : 21 x 30 cm
Published in the digital catalog of herman devries: http://www.hermandevries.org/digital-catalogue/1979/1979-08-27-0000.php
Provenance: Raphaël Levy, Kunsthändler, Zürich, Schweiz€ 3500.30

herbert zangs
ANTI-BUCH / ANTI-BOOKca. 1975
Overpainted Swiss phone book from 1971 run through with8 blocks of wood, with addition of white painting,signed (incised) in the paint.
31 x 22 x 30 cm
De Martelaere, Certificate Nr 16-01-325
Provenance: Private collection, Switzerland.
Provenance: Raphaël Levy, Kunsthändler, Zürich, Schweiz€ 8000.-ANTI-BUCH / ANTI-BOOK
ca. 1976
Eight paper bags with 2 staples, wire, string and seals
held together
50.5 x 87 x 4 cm
Signed with pencil€ 8000.-31