Billy Bengston, Signed (7 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.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A Fine copy this one Signed & dated on title page. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Near fine. First edition. 11 3/4'' x 9 3/4''. 94pp. Signed by Billy Al Bengston. Light wear to covers, a nice copy of a delicate book. Signed.

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.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Limited Edition. The book is in good condition. There are no bookplates or markings of any kind. There is some wear to the edges of the outside boards. The original leather ties are missing. The pages are clean and free of any foxing. This is the First Edition published in 1968, signed on the cover by Edward Ruscha and Billy al Bengston. A rare copy of Edward Ruscha's classic work. Signed by Illustrator(s).