Bilder by Robert Ryman (1 results)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller Inc.
Contact seller5-star sellerPictorial postcard, mailed. Düsseldorf: Konrad Fischer, [1968]. Postcard invitation to the artist's second exhibition in Europe and first with Fischer's gallery. Ryman's first European show, with Galerie Heiner Friedrich (19 November-December 10), began two days before the present one. The Fischer exhibition presented the artist…'s Classico series (nos. 1-6). The illustration shows a detail of J. Green (1968). "Konrad Fischer and the Munich-based gallerist Heiner Friedrich, at whose gallery Konrad Lueg had had a solo exhibition in 1967, became partners of sorts at the end of the 1960s, and they 'shared' a number of artists. When Fischer's friend Kasper König from New York recommended Ryman to him, he was cautious at firstWhen Ryman eventually flew to Germany in the fall, the two gallerists split the cost of the ticket [The Fischer show] consisted of works from Ryman's Classico series, which were later also presented in March 1969 in the Conceptual Art exhibition Live in Your Head. When Attitudes Become Form at the Kunsthalle Bern, which was co-organized by Fischer."Cloud & Crystal: The Dorothee and Konrad Fischer Collection (2016 exhib. booklet), p. 65. Very good, small stain to recto. Mailed to J. Petersen of Berlin. ? D. Fischer, ed., Ausstellungen bei Konrad Fischer: Düsseldorf Oktober 1967-Oktober 1992 (Edition Marzona: 1993) 13.
