Day by Day They Take Some Brain Away
XIII. Bienal de São Paulo.
Köln, Weinand KG, 1975
In 1976, to commemorate the West German pavilion at the previous year's Bienal São Paulo, the Bonner Kunstverein at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum staged an exhibition titled Baselitz, Palermo, Polke, Beitrag der Bundesrepublik Deutschland zur Biennial São Paulo, 1975. For this occasion, some remaining uncirculated copies of Day by Day… were issued in a printed cardboard folder with the catalogues by Georg Baselitz and Blinky Palermo.
First edition, one of 800 copies; tabloid (417 x 296 mm, 16½ x 11¾ in); colour and black-and-white photographs, drawings, and newspaper clippings printed in offset, edited and with an introductory essay by Evelyn Weiss in German and Portuguese, design by Sigmar Polke, Achim Duchow et al.; 14 loose folded sheets, newspaper folded horizontally as issued, minor wear to spine at fold, yellow printed wraparound band with the circular sticker, near-fine; [28]pp. In a lightly worn printed folder with the Georg Baselitz and Blinky Palermo catalogues.
Sigmar Polke Catalogue Raisonné 46; Alibis pp188–195; Artists Who Make Books pp218–221.
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