ARTBALL
ARTBALL
, 1971 & 72
SET of TWO-
Set #1, Don Celender, multiple boxed edition playing cards, offset on cardstock, black/white & color, edition size unknown, unsigned and unnumbered,
3-7/10 × 2-4/5 in. (9.5 x 7 cm.)
Condition:
Excellent +, very slight age toning to box, cards MINT, a excellent example.
Set #2, Don Celender, 1972, multiple boxed edition playing cards, offset on cardstock, black/white & color, edition size unknown, unsigned and unnumbered,
3-7/10 × 2-4/5 in. (9.5 x 7 cm.)
Full deck of commercially printed playing cards featuring 1960’s contemporary artists, critics, and gallerists- Stella, Greenberg, Bacon, Motherwell, Kelly, Serra, Rose, Nevelson, Fischbach, Arman, Bellamy, Parsons among others- with their heads displayed as a photomontage onto action poses of football players. Amusing and often humorous captions such as- Geldzahler, Tight End; Nevelson, Linebacker; Bacon, Running Back- accompany each card. 52 playing cards and 2 jokers. Extremely RARE hard to find unknown print runs.
Condition:
Very Good- age toning/wear to box (see pics)
Note:
Don Celender was an art professor and conceptual artist who championed accessibility and humor in his artistic practice. Celender was represented by OK Harris Gallery and taught at Macalester College in St. Paul. Features images of well-known artists superimposed over images of baseball players on semi fictionally titled teams. Verso has a representative image or statement about the art world figure pictured. Art world figures include : Josef Albers, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Robert Morris, Richard Pousette-Dart, Franz Kline, Jean Dubuffet, Georges Roualt, Leo Castelli, Isamu Noguchi, Anthony Caro, Vincent van Gogh, Marisol, Gerald Clarke, Bernhard Berenson, Albert P. Ryder, Fernand Leger, Horace Pippin, and Paul Jenkins,
and more.