Bengston Billy, Signed (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. First Edition. Quarto. 11 1/4 x 9 3/8". 367pp. Incl. List of Illustrations. Beautifully and profusely illustrated in color. With a SIGNED note, from Bengston to Laura Lee (Woods), collector, museum patron and supporter of many of the L.A Artists. Pictorial boards, without dust jacket as issued. Light soiling to white areas of cover and small dent to cover. Signed.

Green Printed Wrappers. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Frontispiece Portrait; 20 Color Plates (illustrator). First Edition. 62 Pp. One Of A Stated Printing Of 3000 Copies Printed For The Showing At The James Corcoran Gallery In 1977. Author Chronology And Bibliographyy At End. This Example Warmly Inscribed By Bengston To An Art Professor And His Wife, An Art Teacher, "For . And . / Con Amour/ B. A. B. / J.L. E. ______________________ Ac / 5 22 77", The Whole Laid Out As A Constructed Design In Four Lines Across The Top Of The First Blank Page. A Particularly Special Inscription For An Item Which Is Scarce, Perhaps Becaue Of Its Small Size, And Seldom Found Signed. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Unpaginated [32pp] artist's book. Mock woodgrain-patterned card wrappers latigo-bound with leather ties, B&W photograph of the artists mounted on front cover, signed/initialed by both Ruscha and Bengston above and below photograph, respectively. Bengston's business card and photograph of Ruscha's business card stapled to last page. One of 1000 copies, each hand-bound by Ruscha and Bengston. Apart from some faint toning at inside edges of covers, a very fine copy. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Over 100 Color & B/w Illustrations (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1968/1988. Set of two books (Billy and Billy II), each signed, inscribed and dated 2003 on acetate dust jackets. Billy: First edition, first printing (1968). Inscribed and signed by Bengston, "For the sweetest of Malibu kooks / Billy Al Bengston / AKA Moondoggie." Soft cover. Sandpaper wrappers with the title "Billy" in pink flocking on cover, bound with machine screws and nuts, with a pink satin ribbon page marker. Paintings by Billy Al Bengston. Text by James Monte. Includes a list of plates, exhibition history and bibliography. Designed by Ed Ruscha. Unpaginated (64 pp.), with 10 four-color and 36 black and white plates and additional illustrations printed in Los Angeles by Toyo Press. 9 x 11 inches. This first edition was limited to 2,500 copies. Published on the occasion of the 1968 exhibition "Billy Al Bengston" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (installation designed by Frank Gehry). No ISBN. [Cited in Andrew Roth, ed., The Open Book. (Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Center in association with Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2004).] Very scarce. Billy II: (Paintings of Three Decades): First edition, first printing (1988). Inscribed and signed by Bengston, "To the cool Malibu kooks / Billy Al Bengston / AKA Moondoggie." Soft cover. Photographically illustrated French-fold wrappers. Paintings by Billy Al Bengston. Text by Jane Livingston, Karen Tsujimoto, Henry T. Hopkins and Maurice Tuchman. Includes a chronology, exhibition checklist, selected exhibitions and a selected bibliography. Designed by Dana Levy. 144 pp. (including two 2-page gatefolds), with 60 four-color plates and numerous black-and-white illustrations. 9-5/8 x 10 inches. This first edition was limited to 7,500 copies. Published on the occasion of an exhibition organized by the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, and The Oakland Museum. ISBN: 0877014736. Billy: Near Fine (moderate wear to the extremities, front cover slightly curled, 1/8-inch chip to upper edge of front cover, 1/8-inch closed tear to upper edge of front cover, pin hole at lower right front corner [affecting all pages]). Billy II: (Paintings of Three Decades): Near Fine (moderate surface wear and wear to the extremities, faint crease to back cover, first two pages stuck together, sticker residue on first page, pin hole at lower right corner [affecting all pages]). Featuring one of Ruscha's most inventive book designs, with the front cover being a sheet of 100-grit sandpaper and the back cover a coarser 50-grit sheet. The contrasting pink flocked title provides yet another witty articulation of Ruscha's and Bengston's collaborative sensibilities as demonstrated in their book Business Cards, published the same year. Signed by Author.

30x24,5 cm, 94 S., OKart., EA, vom Künstler signiert Aufgrund der EPR-Regelung kann in folgende Länder KEIN Versand mehr erfolgen: Bulgarien, Finnland, Frankreich, Griechenland, Luxemburg, Österreich, Polen, Rumänien, Schweden, Slowakei, Spanien.

First [and only] edition. Signed by the author. Association copy. Hand bound by the authors in faux wood-grain card covers, tied with a knotted leather cord. Black and white photograph mounted to front cover. With 21 photographic illustrations (by Ken Price and Larry Bell). Two cards stapled to final leaf, as issued. A very near fine copy, the binding firm, bright and fresh, the contents clean throughout. Issued in an edition of 1000 copies. Signed by both Ruscha and Bengston in blue ink on the upper cover, above which Ruscha adds the name 'Rudi!'. The recipient Rudi Gernreich (1922-1985) was one of the most original, prophetic and controversial American fashion designers of the 1950s, 60s and 70s. "I met Rudi in the late 1960s through Léon Bing, a model for many of his daringly original fashion statements. I would occasionally spot him driving his white Bentley (very slowly) to his shop on Santa Monica Boulevard near La Cienega. He would wear his own distinctly self-designed clothing. He could be stately and aloof, but at the same time remain a rather ordinary citizen. I cast him in a short movie I did with Larry Bell. Rudi played a roguish flophouse doorman who sneers and says, ''At'll be two dollars.' Here was an elegant man in real life playing a lowdown character who cleans his dirty fingernails with a screwdriver" - Ed Ruscha (System Magazine Issue 13). "We would have met around 1958 or 1960, through Pat Faure. She was probably the most sophisticated person in California at that time; she was a blender. She brought me to Rudi. He was an unusual cat, a handsome little fella when most of the designers weren't very attractive. He dressed in black, which was unusual for California at that time. Very individual, sort of like a European existentialist" - Billy Al Bengston (System Magazine Issue 13). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Softcover artist book with faux wood grain covers mounted with photograph on front cover; bound with a leather tie; 32 pages with both artists business cards stapled to rear cover and the Bengston card crumpled as intended; signed by Ruscha and initialed by Bengston in pen on the front cover; very good condition; except small tears to spine to left of both string ties; light edgewear to covers. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Condition: Near fine. First Edition. Signed first and only edition of Ruscha and Bengston's collaborative book. BUSINESS CARDS, Ruscha explained in a later interview with Trina Mitchum, "started as a joke but then we decided to go through with it [.] We had a dinner at the Bistro in Beverly Hills and after dinner we had a very dramatic business card exchange which Larry Bell photographed with his Polaroid and good judgment. Later the book of photographs came out." 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original faux wood-grain wrappers tied with knotted leather cord, hand-bound by artists. Black and white photograph mounted to front cover. Edition of 1000 copies. Signed by Ruscha and Bengston on front cover. 21 photographic illustrations. Two cards stapled to final leaf as issued; Bengston's card slightly crumpled, also as issued. Embossment of art consultant Aldis Browne to front free endpaper. Light edgewear and rubbing to wrappers. Else bright and sound. Signed.

paperback. Condition: very good(+). Ed Ruscha (illustrator). First. Illustrated with photographs by Ken Price and Larry Bell showing the process of Ruscha and Bengston designing their business cards, and the "presentation dinner" of the finished products in Beverly Hills. 32 pages. Tall slim 8vo, wood-grained card stock covers bound with a leather thong, and with an original polaroid snapshot of the authors affixed to the front cover with mounting corners. Los Angeles: Privately printed, (1968). First edition. Light wear at corners, but still a very good(+) copy with intact leather and finished business cards stapled onto the final page. Boldly signed by Ruscha across the cover. An uncommon artist's book - one of the more difficult Ruscha items to obtain. One of 1000 unique copies produced. -- The Open Book, 198-201.

Condition: Good. Detailed description of the edition of the lithograph. Signed in ink by Billy Al Bengston. This describes each color, the proofs and the edition. DSW Edition no. 127Billy Al Bengston (born 1934) is a flamboyant character who, beginning in the late 1950s, combined art with professional motorcycle racing and quickly became a key player in the Ferus Gallery circle. He had five solo shows at Ferus from 1958 to 1963, as well as a major exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1968. The motorcycle imagery in several early works associated Bengston with West Coast Pop, as did his use of techniques and materials drawn from custom-car and motorcycle culture, while the polished surfaces he achieved with spray lacquer also connected him to early conceptions of Finish Fetish.Provenance: Estate of Ernest F. De Soto.

Exhibition invite that unfolds, 4 x 6 inches; very good condition; a mailed copy with address label on 1 side. The inside has an image of Billy Al Bengston s 1969 driver s license placed on top of an I-phone, and is seemingly signed by the artist above in black ink with Painting Ect. Billy but this may be printed. The invite also states: In an effort to conserve resources, we will be sending all future announcements via email. A paper invite that succinctly memorializes the end of the era of the genre of the printed exhibition announcement card with an image of the reason for its end; the i-phone was introduced in 2007.

First edition, sole printing, signed by both Bengston and Ruscha on the front wrapper, one of 1,000 copies of this artists' book printed to commemorate the genesis, process, printing and distribution of the two artists' business cards, examples of which are stapled into the back. Octavo, 32 pp. With photographic illustrations by Ken Price and Larry Bell throughout. Original leather cord bound faux-woodgrain printed wrappers, original photograph mounted to front wrapper with black photo corners, two business cards stapled to final page, as issued. Spine ends slightly bumped, tips a little rubbed, else a sharp copy, light fingerprints to front photograph, leather cord a touch rubbed, trivial browning to edges of pastedowns, two tiny marks from staples to p. 30. A near-fine copy, bright and clean.

First edition, sole printing, signed by both Bengston and Ruscha to the front wrapper, one of 1000 copies of this artists' book printed to commemorate the genesis, process, printing and distribution of the two artists' business cards, examples of which are stapled into the back. With Ruscha's compliments slip loosely inserted. Octavo, 32pp. With photographic illustrations by Ken Price and Larry Bell throughout. Original faux-woodgrain printed wrappers, holepunched loose sheets (other examples known with leather cords), original photograph mounted to front wrapper with black photo corners, two business cards stapled to final page, as issued. Light creasing and rubbing around spine and hole punches, contents fresh. An excellent copy.