Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Baj, Enrico. Baj, un quadro.

Illus. throughout in black and wihte. With colour fold-out plate. 103 pp. Small 4to. Orig. printed boards with illus. endpapers. – Milano, Commune di Milano, 1972.

Exhibition catalogue centered around the presentation of Enrico Baj’s (1924–2003) major artwork „I funerali dell'anarchico Pinelli“ at the Sala delle Cariatidi in Milan’s Palazzo Reale. Accompanied by a text on Anarchism, written by K. M. D. (?) and „Cosa è un quadro“, a text by Enrico Baj. On pp. 6 to 9 this copy shows six privately mounted photographs (1 in colour) of Baj’s large installation and of the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli, who died by falling out of a window of a Milan police building on December 16, 1969, three days after having been arrested. – Clean copy. – Best.-Nr. 26166