The Blue Stamp of Yves Klein / Klein, Yves ; Held Jjr ; Gaglione B ; Restany P ; Leiber S ; Galantai G ; Eriksson E., 1996
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Scope and Contents
The catalogue edited by John Held Jr. describes the historic aspects of Klein's blue stamp that was used to address a letter in 1957 and was cancelled by the French postal service. The stamps were made from postal service sheets of perforated stamps by either dipping them into blue paint or hand painting them according to different authorities. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates
- Creation: 1996
Creator
- Klein, Yves, 1928-1962 (Person)
- Held, John, Jr., 1947- (mail artist) (Person)
- Gaglione, Picasso, 1943- (Person)
- Restany, Pierre (Person)
- Leiber, Steven (Person)
Extent
0 See container summary (1 soft cover book (spiral spine) + stamp sheet (perforated) (30 pages) in cover (collaged, stamp, rubberstamped, papercard)) ; 27.8 x 21.7 x .2 cm
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Physical Location
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Custodial History
The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.
General
Published: San Francisco, California : Stamp Art Gallery. Nationality of creator: French. General: Added by: RED; updated by: MARVIN.
Repository Details
Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository
125 W. Washington St.
Main Library
Iowa City Iowa 52242 United States
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