Stanley BROUWN

Amsterdam, Harry Ruhé, 2020. Dark blue archival box with mounted ring binder, 35 x 30 x 4.5 cm. Contains 39 transparent sleeves: 12 sleeves with facsimile documents about This Way Brouwn, a preface by Harry Ruhé, one colophon sheet, and 25 sleeves containing 25 original b/w photographs of stanley brouwn's famous performance in 1964, each signed by the photographer Igno Cuypers on the back. The photos are mostly 21 x 15 cm. The set is published in an edition of 10 copies, numbered and signed by the photographer Igno Cuypers on the colophon sheet. This copy is numbered 9/10. In perfect condition. stanley brouwn's iconic series This Way Brouwn is made up of doodles drawn by passers-by whom brouwn asked for directions in Amsterdam's city centre. The artist then appropriated the itineraries by stamping them with the title of the series. The photos taken by Igno Cuypers during the performance in 1964 are rare documents. In the preface Harry Ruhé states that brouwn asked the photographer to shoot several street performances 'sometime in 1964', taking 2 or 3 days. One of the pictures was used for the invitation for brouwn's exhibition at Galerie Orez in The Hague in 1965.