THE ITEM
ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL BROCHURE
PUBLISHED BY
"EDITIONS ALECTO"
THE PRINT CENTRE
8, HOLLAND STREET
LONDON
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Editions Alecto has a distinguished history as a publisher of limited edition prints, engravings, and facsimiles, partnering with prestigious artists and institutions to produce fine art works of exceptional quality.
Founded in the late 1950’s by a group of Oxford and Cambridge undergraduates, Editions Alecto initially specialised in the printing and publishing of original prints, normally in signed and numbered limited editions. Alecto's first major publication was David Hockney's A Rake's Progress. During the 1960’s and 1970’s, Alecto went on to produce original print portfolios with over 100 British and American artists, including such luminaries as Patrick Caulfield, Jim Dine, Richard Hamilton, Allen Jones, Claes Oldenburg, Eduardo Paolozzi, William Scott and George Segal.
(www.alecto-historical-editions.com/pages/about-alecto)
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LOVELY OLD BROCHURE PROMOTING THE PRINT CENTRE, THE GALLERY PORTFOLIO AND THEIR FRAMING SERVICE IN THE FRENCH, GERMAN AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE, 12 PAGES NOT NUMBERED, PAPER COVER WITH A FLAP ON THE INSIDE OF THE BACK-SIDE WITH THE FILM STRIP AND SLIDEVIEWER, DESIGNED BY ERIC AYERS AND PRINTED BY THE SHENVAL PRESS LONDON
INCLUDING
* THE ORIGINAL PRESENTATION LETTER
DATED 1 JULY 1965, SIGNED BY V.S. NORTH (OVERSEAS DEPARTMENT) ANNOUNCING THE VISIT OF ONE OF THEIR ARTISTS ALISTAIR GRANT TO HOLLAND AND BELGIUM HOPING TO MAKE CONTACT WITH THE RECIPIENT
* THE ORIGINAL EDITIONS ALECTA FILMSTRIP NR. 35
SHOWING THE WORK
"CONCERNING MARRIAGES"
(1964)
BY
ALLEN JONES
Allen Jones RA (born 1 September 1937) is a British pop artist best known for his paintings, sculptures, and lithography. He was awarded the Prix des Jeunes Artistes at the 1963 Paris Biennale. He is a Senior Academician at the Royal Academy of Arts. In 2017 he returned to his home town to receive the award Honorary Doctor of Arts from Southampton Solent University
Jones has taught at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, the University of South Florida, the University of California, the Banff Center School of Fine Arts in Canada, and the Berlin University of the Arts. His works reside in a number of collections; including the Tate, the Museum Ludwig, the Warwick Arts Centre and the Hirshhorn Museum. His best known work Hatstand, Table and Chair, involving fibreglass "fetish" mannequins, debuted to protests in 1970.
Jones was born in the English city of Southampton on 1 September 1937. The son of a Welsh factory worker, he was raised in the west London district of Ealing, Jones had an interest in art from an early age. In 1955, he began studying painting and lithography at Hornsey College of Art in London, where he would graduate in 1959. At the time the teaching method at Hornsey was based on Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook from the 1930s. While a student at Hornsey, Jones travelled to Paris and the French region of Provence, and was particularly influenced by the art of Robert Delaunay. He also attended a Jackson Pollock show at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1958, and according to Jones, "for me it was outside any known frame of reference. The scale, the ambition, the freedom. I felt like suing my teachers for not telling me what was happening in the world." He afterwards travelled to see the Musie Fernand Léger in the French commune of Biot, and in 1959 he left Hornsey to begin attending the Royal College of Art.
As one of the first British pop artists, Jones produced increasingly unusual paintings and prints in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and in particular enjoyed combining different visual languages to expose the historical constructions underlying them. According to Jones, about his early ambitions, "I wanted to kick over the traces of what was considered acceptable in art. I wanted to find a new language for representation... to get away from the idea that figurative art was romantic, that it wasn't tough." He was part of a unique generation of students at the Royal College, among which his fellow students were R. B. Kitaj, Peter Phillips, David Hockney, and Derek Boshier, but was expelled from the Royal College of Art in 1960, at the end of his first year.
Despite his expulsion from the Royal College, in January 1961 Jones' work was included in the Young contemporaries 1961 exhibit. The annual Royal Society of British Artists exhibition was described in the press as "the exhibition that launched British pop art," Young Contemporaries helped expose England to the art of Jones, David Hockney, R. B. Kitaj, Billy Apple, Derek Boshier, Joe Tilson, Patrick Caulfield, and Peter Blake, all of whom were variously influenced by American Pop. Among his works, Jones entered several paintings of London buses on shaped canvases, which were afterwards put on display at the London West End gallery Arthur Tooth & Sons. One of the gallery's directors then introduced Jones to the work of American pop artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Claes Oldenburg, which proved inspirational to Jones. In 1961, he took a job teaching lithography at Croydon College of Art in London, where he would remain until 1963. Around this time, Jones was influenced by the works of writers such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Jung. According to Jones, his 1963 painting Hermaphrodite, depicting "fused male/female couples as metaphors of the creative act," draws from both Freud and Nietzsche.[4] In 1963, Jones was awarded the Prix des Jeunes Artistes at the Paris Biennale.
* THE ORIGINAL TAYLOR MERCHANT SLIDE VIEWER
PATENT NO. 2789460
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SIZED:
BROCHURE: 18,5 X 21 CM
LETTER: A4
SLIDE VIEWER: 5,5 X 8,5 CM (FOLDED)
FILM STRIP: 18,5 X 3,5 (JUST A BIT BIGGER THAN THE PROTECTIVE CASE)
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CONDITION:
GENERAL
REASONABLE TO GOOD
BROCHURE
COVER
BIT RUBBED, DIRTY AND DISCOLOURED, SOME FOXY STAINS
SPINE
STAPLED, O.K.
PAGES
VERY SMALL SIGNS OF USAGE
PRESENTATION LETTER
BIT DISCOLOURED, SMALL SIGNS OF USAGE
SLIDE VIEWER
HARDLY TO NO SIGNS OF USAGE
FILM STRIP
SMALL HAIR SHAPED MARK IN THE FIRST SLIDE
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