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Lot 153
Laszlo (Carl)La Lune En Rodage, First & Second Series, vol.1 unnumbered from an edition limited to 215 (65 hors commerce), vol. 2 number 67 of 150 copies plus an unspecified number of hors commerce copies, with pieces of original artwork (drawings, gouaches, collages etc.), graphics, photographs, sheets of letterpress text, music etc.tipped to thick card leaves of varying colours, many signed, original hessian-backed printed veneer boards fastened with metal bolts, each with small bas-relief mounted on upper cover (metal on vol.1 by Pomodoro and and marble by Talman on vol.2), oblong 4to, Basle, Editions Panderma, 1960 & 1965. ⁂ Important Survey Of Post-War And Contemporary Art Featuring Many Major Avant-Garde Artists And Including Original Artwork. The present lot contains two of the most ambitious and important contemporary art portfolios of the post-war era. Containing a mixture of original and editioned works La Lune en Rodage brought together many of the most cutting-edge avant-garde artists of the age and gave them the opportunity to work in mediums that in many cases they had not previously. Volume 1 features Piero Manzoni's only editioned multiple, an 'editioned' unique drawing by Lucio Fontana, and Enrico Catellani's first multiple, and across the two volumes artists such as well Arman, Jean Arp, Hundertwasser, Otto Piene, Man Ray, Dieter Roth, Victor Vasarely amongst many others included works. The production of volume 3 was beset with delays and the project was largely abandoned during its early production in 1965, it was finally published in 1977 but by that time many of the works which had been set to be included were absent most notable was a wonderful screenprint by Bridget Riley, which until recently was largely unknown.
