No Reserve
75
Raymond Pettibon
Thinking of You
- Estimate
- $6,000 - 8,000•
$1,270
Lot Details
The complete hardcover exhibition catalogue for Raymond Pettibon, with 54 unique ink and/or pencil drawings and handwritten text, on wove paper, bound (as issued).
1998
12 1/4 x 9 1/4 x 1 in. (31.1 x 23.5 x 2.5 cm)
Signed in red ink on the title page, one of a limited number of copies with hand additions from the edition of 2,000, published by the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago.
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Thinking of You is a scrapbook, a diary, perhaps even a pillow book, of intimate meditations on the many moods of that particularly sensitive motif – the phallus. This beautifully printed and bound book was produced in conjunction with California-based artist Raymond Pettibon's premiere North American museum exhibition at the Renaissance Society in 1998. His show featured over 500 drawings stylistically derived from cartoons, West Coast punk, B movies and tabloid melodramas. Captioned with quips and adages inspired by an amalgam of literary sources – William Blake, Gumby, Charles Manson, Batman, the Bible, etc. – the drawings are always exquisite, street-dealing a Viagra for the soul. Sometimes provocative, comical, even poetic.i
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The Renaissance Society, “Raymond Pettibon: Thinking of You,” University of Chicago