"at jean dominique carré's
March 1991
....... higher bid excluded.
.....a standard canvas painted the same color as the wall on which it is hung is a painted object and not the support of any representation. at worst the fleeting image of a hypothetical painting (…)".
what's the use of painting anything other than a canvas. each new support or object obliging to imagine a different one each time. infernal cycle leading very quickly to anything, since a posteriori everything is justifiable. you have to repaint the walls of your apartment from time to time, or re-varnish your one-design every year (1). the advantage of a canvas is that it is not necessary to paint it. it is already art, by destination. painting is only a means, not an end. having defined the necessity of painting, so that a canvas and a wall appear identical from the angle of color, just in counterpoint to the possibility of not painting. it just needs a good reason. obvious question. to paint or not to paint then becomes as different as it is indifferent.
the walls were not lined with craft paper for the occasion.
claude rutault february 1991"
(see below)
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claude rutault
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Claude RUTAULT
- Alain CLEMENT
Bulletin. Nos. 1, 2, 3. October 1971; January 1972; September
1972. All published.
Artists periodical.
Three booklets, two of 27 x 21 cm and one of 27 x 20.7 cm.
6+16+44p. Illustrations.
Artist periodical, by Rutault and Clément (with an Antoniucci's contribution in #3): texts in French on art and politics:
#1: on the show at the MJC de Grenoble; on the exhibition in Montpellier in May 1970: "100 artistes dans la ville".
#2: on the Montpellier exhibition in May 1970: "100 artists in the city".
#3: "Peinture-Pratique-Théorie", theorical presentation, by A. Clément and C. Rutault, of his own work (of which, for CR, on "Le Monde" and "La Cause du Peuple", particularly interesting), letter to H. Szeemann and "Propostion faite aux états généraux des Arts Plastiques à Paris le 16 Mai 1972", together with Antoniucci.
C. Rutault, Paris, A. Clément, Montpellier, 1971-1972.
All published.
As new.
Reference:
Marie-Hélène Breuil/Didier Mathieu: "Claude Rutault, Imprimés 1973-2013", CDLA, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche / Sylp & Isp, 2014, nos. 6,7, 8, p. 122, ill. p.13, 14, 15.
Claude RUTAULT
Tableau de l'exposition

Monotype.
Realized for the collective show: "Tableau de l'exposition",
organized by Galerie 6, Paris.
10 series of 10 works, presented by 10 artists: 1: Trbukjak,
2: Charlier, 3: Rutault, 4: Roquet, 5: De Boeck, 6: Yokoyama,
7: Sauerwein, 8: Clément, 9: Guinochet, 10: Cadere. March
15-April 20, 1973.
C. Rutault's work:
10 original posters of the show
at galerie 7 (number "7" is both part of the galerie's
name and the numeration of the show: the 6th show was organized by
'galerie 5', for instance).
Each poster, printed offset black
on white paper: 58 x 45 cm.
Each with handwritten interventions
of C. Rutault: he circled in red pencil, his name, his registration
number in the show and the dates of his interventions.
A series of 10 inerventions, 10 dates: 10 differently modified
copies of the same poster. 1 poster per intervention for a series
of 10: 10 modified posters.
Published in an unknow number of copies, certainly a few.
We offer one copy of the posters.
A very early Rutault's piece.
"Series of 10 posters of a show which was expliciting
the mode of the presentation of an art work. Considering that
every work would be seen through this poster, whose title was,
moreover, "Tableau de l'exposition" (a show painting),
Rutault restricted himself to presenting the poster at each date
he was due to intervene, circling in red pencil his name and
date". C.R.
Claude RUTAULT
Tableau de l'exposition
Original typescript of the document, ephemera, distributed on the occasion of the exhibition at Galeriie 7.
Two sheets of white paper typed in black ink on one side.
27 x 21 cm.
This is the original proof, the one C. Rutault typed himself, as proves the sentence handwritten at the bottom of the second and last page in black pencil: "texte distribué à l'occasion de l'exposition galerie 7" ("text distributed on the occasion of the show gallery 7"). It comes from C. Rutault himself.
Claude RUTAULT
Marelles 1971-1972

Artist's book.
(18) pp. text, reproduction of the typed text.
Hardcover.
15 x 10.2
cm.
Blank covers.
Realized for the show at Galerie Bama, Paris,
21 mai - 15 juin 1974.
Reference:
Marie-Hélène Breuil/Didier Mathieu: "Claude Rutault, Imprimés 1973-2013", CDLA, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, 2014, p. 122, ill. p. 18.
Claude RUTAULT
Notes sur le non-peint (Notes on the unpainted)
Artist's book.
(16) pp. of which 4 blank.
Text in French.
Printed in black on white paper pages, on the recto only.
Plastic binding.
Covers in white cardboard, front cover printed in black.
29.7 x 21 cm.
Self-published,
Paris, 1977.
Edition of around 50 copies.
References:
Marie-Hélène Breuil/Didier Mathieu: "Claude Rutault, Imprimés 1973-2013", CDLA, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche / Sylp & Isp, 2014, no. 32, p. 128. "bibliographicitation 1973-2000" in: claude rutault, définitions/méthodes le livre. Page 1465.
Claude RUTAULT
Propositions 1 / Sept Projets de Claude RUTAULT (Proposals 1 / Seven Projects by Claude Rutault
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Tittle and two text pages |
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Artist periodical
In 2 parts:
1)“Proposals”. Letter to Sarkis in French, German and English. Title page + 10 pages numbered 1-10. B/w reproductions + 1 page.
2) “Seven projects by Claude Rutault” (Suicide-Paintings): Details on suicide-paintings nos. 1 to 7.
Pages numbered from 11 to 18, text in French and reproductions in b/w.
Loose, with perforations for binder.
21.5 x 15.8 cm.
Propositions, C. Ginz (ed.), (Le Vesinet), 1978.
"Propositions": Non-profit and periodical artist association, one artist per issue, artist who will have complete freedom. Issued five or six times a year, “sheets that can be put together in a binder”.
Fine.
Scarce.
Reference:
Marie-Hélène Breuil/Didier Mathieu: "Claude Rutault, Imprimés 1973-2013", CDLA, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche / Sylp & Isp, 2014, no. 53, p. 134, ill. p. 50-57.
Interchangeable généralisé. Définition/méthode
no. 49 (Geneeralized interchangeable Definition/Method No. 49)
Unique work.
A number of X canvases, selected among the canvases
standart formats, distributed to a number of "x" persons,
private or institutional. A canvas a person, each canvas being
painted in the same color as the wall's one on which i is hanged.
Social functioning: the work is defined by a description common
to the participators, of which the number can vary. None of the
participators may purchase someone else's work. `
Created between 1973 and 1979, this "définition/méthode"
was realized for the first time during the exhibition at the
ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, March-April
1983.
This exhibition was presenting, thanks to G. Mollet-Viéville,
the people having actualizated a "définition/méthode"
on the occasion of this show.
The work itself, the "définition/méthode",
is accompanied with a booklet containing the "regulation"
comprising 8 articles and the owners list with their names, addresses
and samples of the color of their own actualization. 20 pages,
29.7 x 21 cm, which give also the changing of addresses, the modifications
of colors and/or formats, the re-sales to new owners giving their
names, addresses, the chosen canvas format and color. + 5 letters,
loose, from owners announcing to the others the new modifications.
+ 1 small poster, 41.8x29.6 cm, "Etat de la pièce
no. 49 "Interchangeable Généralisé"
on September 23, 1987, on the occasion of the show "Peintures
de Claude Rutault", I.S.P., 11 rue Clavel.
Reference:
C. Rutault: Définitions/Méthodes 1973-1979,
p. 62.
Claude RUTAULT
suicide-painting n° 6
Artist's postcard.
Sent to J.-D. Carre, rue Mazarine, Paris, September 20, 1990.
Printed:
28 avril - 26 mai 1982
suicide painting n°1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
...
28 avril - 26 mai 1983
suicide painting n°1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
agentur für kulturelle angelegenhelten
bergmannst. 2- 1000 berli 61
suicide-painting n° 6
collec. S.J.B. paris
photo: heidi meister
Rutault's text about a project by JD Carre,
handwritten in dark blue ink.
Signed.
11.9 x 17.6 cm
Tiny bumps to corners; fine.
Claude RUTAULT
Korrespondenzen-Correspondance
Artist's postcards.
8 postcards that have to be sent to the artist to get back the
8 other cards which are the original work. In white cardboard portfolio.
15.5 x 11
cm.
Mollet-Viéville/I.S.P., Paris, 1982.
Reference:
Marie-Hélène Breuil/Didier Mathieu: "Claude Rutault, Imprimés 1973-2013", CDLA, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche / Sylp & Isp, 2014, no. 97, p. 146, ill. pp. 95-98.
These 8 cards are a part of the work itself.
Claude RUTAULT
Monochromes 3

Artist's book.
23 sheets, each with original paint by the artist on both sides:
46 pages, 46 original paintings, numbered, in order to follow
"Définitions-Méthodes 1973-1979, Notes
1981-1987", from number 223 through number 268.
Bound
in a card folder slipped in a card slipcase. 25 x 34.5 cm.
Media, Neuchatel, Switzerland, 1982.
Edition of 25 copies of
which 5 Not for Sale (H.C.) copies.
Certificate.
Reference:
Marie-Hélène Breuil/Didier Mathieu: "Claude Rutault, Imprimés 1973-2013", CDLA, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche / Sylp & Isp, 2014, no. 102, p. 147.
Claude RUTAULT
définitions/méthodes 3 bis (reprise-sculpture) definitions/methods 3 bis (recovery-sculpture)
définitions/méthodes 4 (dispositif) definitions/methods 4 (device)
définitions/méthodes 5 (transfert) definitions/methods 5 (transfer)
Artist's book in 3 volumes.
370 pages: 160+156 + 44 pages.
Bilingual French-English text.
Printed in b/w offset on white paper.
Pictorial covers, offset printed in 2 colors (black and blue, black and yellow, black and red).
29 x 21cm.
Intelligence Service Productions, Paris, 1985.
Edition of 600 unnumbered.
In the publisher's cardboard slipcase.
As new.
References :
Marie-Hélène Breuil/Didier Mathieu: "Claude Rutault, Imprimés 1973-2013", CDLA, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, 2014 , no. 133, p. 253, ill. pp. 186-188 (d/m 3: vol. 1, 4 and 5, vol. 2).
"bibliographicitation 1973-2000" in: claude rutault, définitions/méthodes le livre, p. 1477.
Trimmed, the macules of the covers will be used to make cards to announce the publication of the book.
Claude RUTAULT
Collections - Collectionneurs (Collections - Collectors)
Exhibition catalogue.
32 pp.
Text in French and b/w offset reproductions of works.
29.4 x 21 cm.
Perfect binding.
Exhibition organzied by Yves Aupetitallot,
photos by Andre Morin and Cyrille Sabatier.
Saint-Etienne, Maison
de la Culture et de la Communiqation, 1986.
Claude RUTAULT
définitions/méthodes 1973-1979, notes 1981-1987 (definitions/methods 1973-1979; ratings 1981-1987
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An artist's book, a booklet and a sheet of paper.
- Book: (dedicated to Achille, his disabled son), 220pp.
Text in French, photographs, drawings and plans in b./w.
Printed in offset b/w + 2 pages in colors (yellow and blue) on matt white coated paper.
29.5 x 21cm.
Pictorial card cover and dust jacket with flaps.
- Booklet: slipped into the book, 36p. stapled; 29.5 x 21 cm, offset printed in 1 color (black) on glossy white coated paper, without cover.
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A sheet of paper, 29.5 x 20.5 cm, text in French printed in black on salmon pink paper, slipped into the booklet, with this title: "DÉFINITION/MÉTHODE RÉALISÉE: UNE TOILE UN MUR".
Also slipped into the book, the information document published on the occasion of the exhibition in Ghent, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, December 17, 1988 - February 5, 1989), text in Dutch, 4pp., 20.9 x 20.5 cm, printed in four-color offset on ivory paper.
References:
Marie-Hélène Breuil/Didier Mathieu: "Claude Rutault, Imprimés 1973-2013", CDLA, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, 2014, (2), n° 151, p. 258, ill. pp. 209-214. "bibliographicitation 1973-2000" in: claude rutault, définitions/méthodes le livre, p. 1477.
Fine.
Claude RUTAULT
Titre: variable sur un plan (Title: variable on a plan)
Artist's postcards.
4 colored postcards, loose, in a printed paper envelope.
Several
language text on one side of the envelope.
Ecole Régionale des Beaux Arts, Dunkerke, F., 1988. 1st
edition.
Reference:
Marie-Hélène Breuil/Didier Mathieu: "Claude Rutault, Imprimés 1973-2013", CDLA, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, 2014, no. 166, p. 261, ill. p. 227-228.
Claude RUTAULT
AMZ Toile N°48 (25 octobre 1987/5 novembre 1988)

Exhibition catalogue
21pp.
Numerous illustrations, including some folding ones in colors.
Texts by Daniel Bosser, Michel Tournereau and Claude Rutault with translation into English.
Soft cover.
Stapled binding.
29.6 x 21 cm.
Published to accompany the exhibition which started on December 15, 1987 and lasted until November 1988, declining 6 different variations of the piece.
Exhibition organized by Art & Cie; installations by M. Tournereau, D. Bosser.
Art & Cie and Claude Rutault, (Paris), (1987).
Designed by M. Tournerau and C. Rutault.
Upper left corner bumped, light discolorations on the front cover.
Overall, very good.
References:
Marie-Hélène Breuil/Didier Mathieu: "Claude Rutault, Imprimés 1973-2013", CDLA, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche / Sylp & Isp, 2014, no. 168, p. 255, ill. p. 230.
"bibliographicitation 1973-2000" in: claude rutault, définitions/méthodes le livre, p. 1484.
GAUTHIER, Michel
Mutations. Sur neuf aspects du travail de Claude Rutault (Mutations. On nine aspects of the work of Claude Rutault)

Artist monograph.
103 pp.
Text in French.
Abundantly illustrated with reproductions of works by Cl. Rutault.
Cover with flaps.
With the errata, small white card printed black, loose.
23.9 x 17.1 cm.
Art & Art, Musée Sainte-Croix, Poitiers, 1990.
Fine condition, despite the covers superficially dusty and
slightly insolated edges.
First edition.
Claude RUTAULT
[la lecture] [the reading]

Front cover |
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Back cover |
One of the plates |
Artist's book.
Totally blank book, not even the name of the artist or the title are printed.
Unpaginated (16 pp.).
Stapled.
24 x 17 cm.
Printed in four-color offset and b/w.
3 plates in colors (yellow, dark blue and red) on heavyweight white satin coated paper.
On pages [5-6], a rectangular cutout shows page [7] and cutout in the back cover.
[Tournus : Musée Greuze], [Exhibition May 12 – July 16 juillet, 1990].
Published in 300 unnumbered copies.
As new.
Scarce
Reference:
Marie-Hélène Breuil/Didier Mathieu: "Claude Rutault, Imprimés 1973-2013", CDLA, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche / Sylp & Isp, 2014, no. 175, p. 263, ill. p. 234.
"[…] with regard to the reading, I deleted any text, any word in the publication, the actors appearing only in the form of photographs." in “bibliographicitation 1973-2000” in: "claude rutault, definitions/methods the book", page 1486.
Claude RUTAULT
Extraits (définition/méthode no. 175, 1989-1990 (Extracts (definition/method no. 175, 1989-1990)

Artist's book.
Unpaginated (48 pp.).
Soft cover.
24 x 11 cm.
Texts (in French and English): claude rutault, Blandine Chavanne: "The end justifies the means"; Guy Tortosa: "Indifference of painting".
Published on the occasion of the show "Définition/Méthode no. 175" at the Musée Sainte Croix of Poitiers, France.
Musée Sainte-Croix, Poitiers, 1990.
Published in 600 unnumbered.
Conception/Design: Claude Rutault.
Fine.
Reference:
Marie-Hélène Breuil/Didier Mathieu: "Claude Rutault, Imprimés 1973-2013", CDLA, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche / Sylp & Isp, 2014, no. 177, p. 264, ill. p. 235.
Claude RUTAULT
Untitled (surenchère exclue) (outbid excluded)
Extract:

Unique.
Text typed in black on a sheet of tracing paper.
Unpublished.
Three corrections with white Typp-Ex by C. Rutault.
23.4 x 16.7 cm.
Fine.
Full tex translated into English:
"at jean dominique carré's
March 1991
.......higher bid excluded.
....a standard canvas painted the same color as the wall on which it is hung is a painted object and not the support of any representation. at worst the fleeting image of a hypothetical painting (…)".
what's the use of painting anything other than a canvas. each new support or object obliging to imagine a different one each time. infernal cycle leading very quickly to anything, since a posteriori everything is justifiable. you have to repaint the walls of your apartment from time to time, or re-varnish your one-design every year (1). the advantage of a canvas is that it is not necessary to paint it. it is already art, by destination. painting is only a means, not an end. having defined the necessity of painting, so that a canvas and a wall appear identical from the angle of color, just in counterpoint to the possibility of not painting. it just needs a good reason. obvious question. to paint or not to paint then becomes as different as it is indifferent.
the walls were not lined with craft paper for the occasion.
claude rutault february 1991"
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Claude RUTAULT
[autour du non-peint]
[ou] [le soleil ne fait pas le beau temps mais il y contribue]
(Around the unpainted. Or the sun doesn't make the weather good but it helps)
Artist's edition.
In 2 parts:
- 1) Invitation:

Printed on translucent tracing paper, in black on both sides, to slip inside the catalogue.
16 x 16 cm.
Signed by Rutault in black ink.
C. Rutault, printed on the card: "invitation to slip into the exhibition catalogue".
As new.
References:
Marie-Hélène Breuil/Didier Mathieu: "Claude Rutault, Imprimés 1973-2013", CDLA, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche / Sylp & Isp, 2014, no. 182, p. 265, ill. 241. claude rutault, définitions/méthodes le livre, pages 1190 - 91 and 1195.
- 2) Catalogue:

Unpaginated.
24 totally blank pages of brown kraft paper.
24 x 17 cm.
Stapled bound.
As new.
References:
Marie-Hélène Breuil/Didier Mathieu: "Claude Rutault, Imprimés 1973-2013", CDLA, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche / Sylp & Isp, 2014, no. 183, p. 265, ill. 241. claude rutault, définitions/méthodes le livre, pages 1190 - 91 and 1195.
[autour du non-peint] 1 and 2:
Self-published, (Vaucresson), 1991.
Edition of unnumbered 300.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Jean-Dominique Carré, April 6, 7, 8, 9, 1991.
Signed by Rutault in black ink on the announcement.
Created and realized by Claude Rutault.
Program:
April 6 d/m 34+ d/m 145
April 7 (d/m 1 + d/m 34)+ d/m 145= d/m 106
April 8 d/m 34+(d/m 1+ d/m 145)= d/m 106
April 9 d/m 1+ d/m 145
As new.
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Claude RUTAULT / Éric LOMBARD
suite et ensuite d/m 95 (following and afterwards d/m95)
Artist's postcard.
Actualization of one of C. Rutault's d/m by E.
Lombard in Tournus/Montreuil Zonmée 93.
Recto: color photo by F. Arrivé. Verso: information on the
actualization.
11 x 15.5 cm.
1993.
As new.
Claude RUTAULT / lefevre jean claude
suite et ensuite d/m95 (following and afterwards d/m95)
Artist's postcard.
Actualization of one of the C. Rutault's d/m by LJC
in Tournus/Montreuil Zonmée 93.
Recto: color photo by F. Arrivé. Verso: information of the actualization.
11 x 15.5 cm.
1993.
As new.
Claude RUTAULT
Marie-Louise xDeluxe edition

Artist's book.
Unpaginated (48 pp.).
Wrappers.
21 x 12.5 cm.
This artist's book works with a white card frame liner ("marie-louise"), included, loose, in the book.
Éditions Jannink, Collection L'Art en Écrit, Paris, 1993.
First edition of 300, of which 15 (HC) and 285, all numbered and signed by Cl. Rutault.
This copy is one of the 285, numbered 256, and signed.
Realized after his "définition/méthode no. 34", 1976.
Conception/Design: Claude Rutault.
Without the publisher's cardboard slipcase.
As New.
References:
Marie-Hélène Breuil/Didier Mathieu: "Claude Rutault, Imprimés 1973-2013", CDLA, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche / Sylp & Isp, 2014, no. 195, p. 268, ill. 249. "bibliographicitation 1973-2000" in: claude rutault, définitions/méthodes le livre. Page 1489.
Claude RUTAULT
Marie-Louise

Artist's book.
Unpaginated (48 pp.).
Wrappers. 21 x 12.5 cm.
In the publsiher's gray cardboard slipcase.
This artist's book works with a white card frame liner ("marie-louise"), included, loose, in the book.
Éditions Jannink, Collection L'Art en Écrit, Paris, 1993.
First edition of 300, of which 15 (HC) and 285, all numbered and signed by Cl. Rutault.
This copy is one of the 285, numbered 10, and signed.
Realized after his "définition/méthode no. 34", 1976.
Conception/Design: Claude Rutault.
Without the publisher's cardboard slipcase.
As new.
References:
Marie-Hélène Breuil/Didier Mathieu: "Claude Rutault, Imprimés 1973-2013", CDLA, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche / Sylp & Isp, 2014, no. 195, p. 268, ill. 249. "bibliographicitation 1973-2000" in: claude rutault, définitions/méthodes le livre. Page 1489.
Claude RUTAULT
Version papier première partie (Paper Version 1976 - 1993, first part)

Artist's book.
29 leaves numbered 836 to 892, of which 13 white and 16 in color,
pink or yellow, according to the number in the edition.
Printed in photocopy.
Text in
French.
Black and green card covers.
Soft cover.
29,5 x 21 cm.
Les éditions Victoire, Bagnolet, 1993.
First edition of 150 copies numbered by hand in black pencil by C. Rutault.
Published on the occasion of "version papier" at Victoire Dubruel's, Bagnolet, 4 et 5 December 1993.
References:
Marie-Hélène Breuil/Didier Mathieu: "Claude Rutault, Imprimés 1973-2013", CDLA, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche / Sylp & Isp, 2014, no. 196, p. 268. "bibliographicitation 1973-2000" in: claude rutault, définitions/méthodes, le livre, p. 1490 .
Claude RUTAULT
Postcard from Belle-Île-en-Mer

Sent by Claude Rutault to J-D Carré.
Text in black ink.
10.5 x 14.8 cm.
Signed.
Posted November 1993.
Bump to lower left corner, still very good.
"Les aiguilles de Port-Coton sont toujours aussi..."
Claude RUTAULT
La Fin de l'Objet Fini (The End of the Finished Object)
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Artist's book.
142 pp.
Text in Russian.
Frédéric Bouglé, interviews with Claude Rutault (Michel Bodé, translation into French).
Paperback with translucent paper jacket printed in black, glossy black cardboard cover on one side, matt black on the other.
21 x 21 cm.
Printed in b/w offset on translucent wrapping paper and four-color offset on white coated paper.
1 bookmark, 19,6 x 19,6 cm, with one side in glossy black cardboard and one side in matte black (the same as the one on the cover), to be placed under each page to facilitate reading the text.
Published on the occasion of his exhibition "rutault/rodchenko" - Gallery L in Moscow - 1994, curator Frédéric Bouglé.
Éditions avant-garde, Pierre-Christian Broché éditeur, Moscou, 1994.
Very good condition, in spite of tiny tears at the edges of the dust jacket (very fragile paper).
References:
Marie-Hélène Breuil/Didier Mathieu: "Claude Rutault, Imprimés 1973-2013", CDLA, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche / Sylp & Isp, 2014, no. 201, p. 308, ill. p. 274. "bibliographicitation 1973-2000" in: claude rutault, définitions/méthodes le livre, p. 1491.
Claude RUTAULT
un autportrait et tous les ... de Nicolas Poussin et des autres ...
Set of documents mailed to J.-D. Carre in a white paper envelope March 11, 1994, conntaining:
- a white card frame liner (reminiscent of "marie-louise") with a cut up. 19.1 x 10 cm.
- three artist's postcards, actualizations of C. Rutault' "suite et ensuite d/m 95, 1993" by E.
Lombard, by lefevre jean claude (see the two above) and here by blondeau hf. 11 x 15.5 cm each.
Fine.
Claude RUTAULT
mes peintures ont la vie courte mais elles ont plusieurs vies (my paintings have a short life but they have several lives)

Artist's book.
Unpaginated (20 pp.).
Text in French by C. Rutault and photos in b/w.
Staple binding.
24,1 x 17,1 cm.
Les Presses du réel, Dijon, 1994.
Edition of 500 unnumbered.
Conception/Design: Claude Rutault.
Fine.
References:
Marie-Hélène Breuil/Didier Mathieu: "Claude Rutault, Imprimés 1973-2013", CDLA, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche / Sylp & Isp, 2014, no. 204, p. 308, ill. p. 275. "bibliographicitation 1973-2000 in: claude rutault, définitions/méthodes le livre, p. 1492.
Claude RUTAULT
La Peinture ne Tombe pas du Ciel n° 4. (Paint does not fall from the sky no. 4).

Artist's book.
- Book: 24 pp. (4 of which serve as a cover).
Printed in 2 colors (blue and black) on heavyweight white coated paper. 1 cutout on the cover page [4].
- 1 bookmark, loose, “d/m 260. monochromes 5. claude rutault, 1994”, coloring postcard “painting does not fall from the sky no. 4”, 10 x 15 cm.
Stapled.
24 x 17 cm.
Book, stapled, 24 x 17 cm.
Editions À bruit secret, Dunkerque, 1995.
Published in 300 copies. including 30 numbered and signed, 1 of 300.
As new.
References:
Marie-Hélène Breuil/Didier Mathieu: "Claude Rutault, Imprimés 1973-2013", CDLA, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche / Sylp & Isp, 2014, no. 206, p. 309, ill. pp. 277-279. "bibliographicitation 1973-2000" in: claude rutault, définitions/méthodes le livre. Page 1493".
"monochrome opens to an empty window, let's leave it open"
Claude RUTAULT
Guide de l'Exposition 2
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Artist's book.
Small booklet printed black on white paper.
10.5 x 7.4 cm.
Mailed in a white paper envelope to J.D. Carre January 1, 1995.
Contans "Figuure, marine, paysage"; "Notes sur les formats", text in French by C. Rutault, 4 pages, "définition/méthode 21"; etc.
Used by C. Rutault to present his wishes to J.D. Carre for 1995 handwritten in black ink on the front cover, signed.
Claude RUTAULT
"Rvages"

Postcard.
Mailed to J.D. Carre August 16, 1995.
12 x 17 cm.
Handwritten text in black ink by C. Rutault about a proposition of a pubication by J.D. Carre and comments on his holidays.
Signed.
Fine.
Claude RUTAULT
Two Letters for a Person in Ivory Coast

Announcement.
Invitation to the exhibition of C. Rutault " Two Letters for a Person in Ivory Coast" at Jean Brolly's.
A sheet of yellow paper printed on one side.
29.7 x 21 cm.
(1997).
Folded in three for postage purpose.
Dedicated and signed by C. Rutault in red felt-tip pen, top left.
As new.
Literature:
Le Creux de l'Enfer:
“Claude RUTAULT exhibitions at private homes “papers”, apartment of Baudouin Jannink, Paris, 1977; “AMZ”, 6 actualizations of the same work over 6 months - at Michel Tourneau and Daniel Bosser, Paris, 1987; “two letters for a secret person in ivory coast”, exhibition organized by Jean Brolly, Paris, 1997”.
Claude RUTAULT
Quelques jours avant l'exposition: annonciation, peinture du XIIe siècle, peinture abstraite 1962-8, deux toiles préparées en blanc
Announcement.
Galerie Martine et Thibaut de la Châtre, Paris, January 21 - February 28, 1997, opening Tueday January 21.
10. x 10 cm.
Claude RUTAULT
118 ter Monochromes 6, 1997-1998
Artist's book.
Album of 92 hand numbered pages (46 plates, 46 text pages). One
text in French, handwritten and signed in black pencil by the
artist on the first blank page. 46 original paintings (full pages
monochrome paintings, except one, bichrome) on the right page
(of which 2 "unpaints"= blank pages), location, name
of the place, date, title, définition/méthode number
and date, handwritten in black pencil by the artist, on the facing
left one.
Cloth bound and printed blue/white dust jacket (one
of the original "Peinture-suicide" posters).
32 x 38.5
cm.
The colors used in this album are the ones he used to paint the
canvases, in the different actualizations of his "définitions-méthodes"
in institutional and private places. From 01.01. 1997 to october
31st, 1998. Classified in chronological order.
Edition of 11 copies, of which only 6 are for sale, the 5 others
remaining the artist's properety.
All realized, signed and numbered
by the artist.
Intelligence Service Production,
Vaucresson (France), 1997-1998.
"This album documents the colours indifference in painting.
They all have been choosen by the people who had to cure the
show (private or institutions). Actualizations go from january
1st, 1997 to october, 1998. Dipping into the album, I discovered
all colours were present, blue, green, yellow, black, red, white,
grey... I therefore decided that this album will constitue the
scale of the possible colours for all the définitions/méthodes
that will be realized till december, 31st, 1999". "Vaucresson,
october 25, 1998". C.R., on the 1st blank page.
This work is the following of "Monochromes 3", 1982.
As new.
Reference:
Marie-Hélène Breuil/Didier Mathieu: "Claude Rutault, Imprimés 1973-2013", CDLA, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, 2014, no. 214, p. 311.
Claude RUTAULT
de pile en pile from stack to satck définition/méthode no. 172
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Artist's book.
Pages numbered from 705 to 864.
Paperback.
The 2 cover boards, hardback, have been placed in the middle of the book, illustrated with a color photo representing the definition/method no. 172.
Perfect binding.
21 x 13,5 cm.
Editions Voix, Richard Meier, Montigny-lès-Metz, 1997.
Printed in 300 copies + 30 numbered 1 to 50 and signed.
This copy is one of the 300.
Conception/Design: Claude Rutault.
As new.
References:
Marie-Hélène Breuil/Didier Mathieu: "Claude Rutault, Imprimés 1973-2013", CDLA, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, 2014, no. 213,, p. 311, iil. p. 284. «bibliographicitation 1973-2000» in : claude rutault, définitions/méthodes le livre, pp. 1494 – 1495.
Claude RUTAULT
de pile en pile from stack to satck définition/méthode no. 1722 (Deluxe edition).
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front cover |
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(un)folded tracing paper leaf |
Artist's book.
Pages numbered from 705 to 864.
Paperback.
The 2 covers, carborad plates illustrated with a color photo representing the definition/method no. 172, have been placed in the middle of the book.
Perfect binding.
21 x 13.5 cm.
Editions Voix, Richard Meier, Montigny-lès-Metz, 1997.
Printed in 300 copies + 30 numbered 1 to 30 and signed. .
This is 1 of those 30, #8/30, numbered and signed in black pecncil on the cardboard cover placed in the middle ofthe book, with the accompanying tracing paper japanese-style leafl with, handwritten in black pencil in the folds, the words “de” “pile” “en” “pile”, inserted, loose, in the book.
Conception/Design: Claude Rutault.
As new.
References:
Marie-Hélène Breuil/Didier Mathieu: "Claude Rutault, Imprimés 1973-2013", CDLA, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, 2014, no. 213,, p. 311, iil. p. 284. «bibliographicitation 1973-2000» in : claude rutault, définitions/méthodes le livre, pp. 1494 – 1495.
Claude RUTAULT
de pile en pile from stack to satck définition/méthode no. 172

Announcement.
Invitation card from editions voix richard meier, to the presentation of his book "de pile en pile from stack to stack definition/method no. 172" at jean dominique carré's, archives bookstore, 52 rue mazarine 75006 paris, this Thursday, May 22, A997 from 6 to 9 p.m.
Printed in black on white card stock on one side.
6.8 x 8.9 cm.
"You will fall flat when you come to discover the latest book by claude rutault "……" at jean dominique carré, archives bookstore, 52 rue mazarine 75006 paris, tel. (…), fax (…), this Thursday, May 22, A997 from 6 to 9 p.m."
As new.
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Claude RUTAULT
d/m associée 278 (d/m1+d/m34+d/m98+d/m145) (d/m associated 278 (d/m1+d/m34+d/m98+d/m145)
Exhibiton at Jean-Dominique Carré's from February 20 to 22 1998
In four parts: A: Unique work; B: Announcement; C: Update note; D: Description
A: Unique artwork: 5 sheets of white paper and canvases mounted of stretcher.
- 5 sheets of white paper in the format 35.1 x 21.8 cm of which 4 are printed in black: "… d/m 1bis single table 1973-1997, d/m 93 random series (a) 1978 (…) + 1 blank sheet.
.... one of the 5 sheets
And:
- 5 canvases on frames, of variable formats, painted the same color as the wall on which they are hung, here "cascade de vert avis 3000 satinée".
Canvases fomats: 15.7 x 21.7 cm; 27 x 22 cm; 3 canvases 22 x 35 cm.

This artwork works on two walls at a corner:
The 5 sheets are fixed to the wall by two needles at each upper corner, next to each other.
The 5 canvases, at the same height as the leaves, to the other corner wall, are painted the same color as the wall on which they are hung, here "waterfall of green" avis 3000 satinated".
Sheets of paper in poor condition, canvases in perfect condition.
Text on the 5 printed sheets of paper:
"… d/m 1bis single table 1973-1997, d/m 93 random series (a) 1978, d/m 94 random series (b) 1978, d/m 95 continuation and then 1978, d/m 96 between us and the eiffel tower 1978, d/m 98 to continue 1978, d/m 172 from pile to pile 1989: theme 16 between the piles of the eiffel tower, theme 31 to fill in, theme 33 to continue, theme 34 random, theme 35 references, d/m 183 continue painting 1991, d/m 245 to fill in paper version 1993...
.... I still hesitate between these different definitions/methods and a few others,
why not a new "associate d/m" which would borrow its instructions from several already updated: the canvas of the same color as the wall, the papers, legend, to continue...
.... all this for an always provisional result that the charge-taker should once again appropriate."
B) Announcement / Artist publication.

Brown kraft paper envelope with title printed on a strip of white paper mounted and glued.
On the recto, the title: "d/m associated 278 (d/m1+d/m34+d/m98+d/m145".
Inside, the invitation itself, a sheet of white paper printed in black, folded in 4, sealed with a round green sticker.
Envelope: 16.2 x 22.9 cm.
Invitation, folded and cealed: 11 x 17.5 cm.
Self-published, (Vaucresson), 1998.
Published on the occasion of the show at Jean-Dominique Carré's, February 20-21-22, 1998.
Edition of 100, numbered in black pencil on the back of the brown kraft paper envelope.
Conception/Design: Claude Rutault.
As new.
References:
Marie-Hélène Breuil/Didier Mathieu: "Claude Rutault, Imprimés 1973-2013", CDLA, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, 2014, no. 215-216,, p. 312, iil. p. 286-289. «bibliographicitation 1973-2000» in: claude rutault, définitions/méthodes le livre, pp. 1494 – 1495.
C)
Update note.
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1) A sheet of white paper.
29.7 x 21 cm.
Text in French printed in black on one side, actualization form filled in manually by C.R. and C.R.'s handwritten discount notes, printed in black, in photocopy.
As new.
2) Right, the same sheet but empty, ready to be filled by the actualizer.
D) Description.

A sheet of green paper.
29.7 x 21 cm.
Text printed in black in photocopy on one side only.
C. Rutault "the painting develops on a minimum of two walls one after the other..."
As new.
Reference:
Marie-Hélène Breuil/Didier Mathieu: "Claude Rutault, Imprimés 1973-2013", CDLA, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, 2014, no. 216, p. 312, ill. 286-289.
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Claude RUTAULT
[…d/m 1bis tableau à l’unité 1973-1997,…]
d/m associée 278 (1+34+98+145)
d/m associée 278 (d/m1+d/m34+d/m98+d/m145) notes. actualisation no. 1.

Announcement,
Artist publicatiion.
Same as B), upper, offered separately.
Brown kraft paper envelope with the title printed on a white strip
of white paper mounted on it.
Inside, the invitation itself,
sheet of white paper prined in black, folded in 4.
Printed in photocopy.
Envelope: 16.2 x 22.9
cm.
Invitation, folded and sealed: 11 x 17.5 cm.
Published on the occasion of the show at
Jean-Dominique Carré's, February 20-21-22, 1998.
Created
and realized by Claude Rutault.
Edition of 100, numbered in black
pencil.
Reference:
Marie-Hélène Breuil/Didier Mathieu: "Claude Rutault, Imprimés 1973-2013", CDLA, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, 2014, no. 216, p. 312, ill.. 286-289.
Claude RUTAULT
Claude Rutault Bibliographie (Claude Rutault Bibliography)

Exhibition catalog / Artist publication.
Unpaginated (24pp.).
Text in German, French, English.
Softcover, stapled.
20.8 x 21 cm.
Catalog of the exhibition at the Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, October 4, 1998 - January 10, 1999.
Complete with the "Errata", loose, repetition of the front cover, but on mustard yellow paper.
Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen, 1998.
Edition of 500 unnumbered.
Design: Claude Rutault.
As new.
References:
Marie-Hélène Breuil/Didier Mathieu: "Claude Rutault, Imprimés 1973-2013", CDLA, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, 2014, no. 218, p. 313, ill. p. 290. "bibliographicitation 1973-2000" in: claude rutault, définitions/méthodes le livre. p. 1495.
Claude RUTAULT
Exploitation de la d/m 272 papiers double face (Exploitation of the d/m 272 double-sided paper sheets

Ephemera.
Created by Claude Rutault for and distributed on the occasion of the launch of the website "synestésie.com/rutault".
Printed on both sides, image on one side, text on the other.
6 x 6 cm each.
9 pieces, each a diffrent color.
Cneai, Chatou, 1999.
Conception/Design: Claude Rutault.
As new.
Not in Marie-Hélène Breuil/Didier Mathieu: "Claude Rutault, Imprimés 1973-2013.
Claude RUTAULT
Exploitation de la d/m 272 papiers double face (Exploitation of the d/m 272 double-sided paper sheets)
Ephemera, full sheet.
A full sheet of uncut ephemera.
Created by Claude Rutault for and distributed, cut, on the occasion of the launch of the website "synestésie.com/rutault".
A whole sheet of uncut ephemera.
Printed on both sides, image on one side, text on the other.
29.7 x 21 cm.
Cneai, Chatou, 1999.
Conception/Design: Claude Rutault.
Fine.
Not in Marie-Hélène Breuil/Didier Mathieu: "Claude Rutault, Imprimés 1973-2013.
Claude RUTAULT
Exploitation de la d/m 272 papiers double face (Exploitation of the d/m 272 double-sided paper sheets)

Announcement.
Five ephemeras created by Claude Rutaultand distributed on the occasion of the launch of the website "synestésie.com/rutault.
Mailed to J.D. Carre in a white paper envelope, August 30, 1995, as an invitation to the presentation of the C. Rutault's website at the Cneai, Chatou.
Printed on both sides, image on one side, text on the other.
6 x 6 cm each.
5 pieces, each a diffrent color.
Cneai, Chatou, 1999.
Conception/Design: Claude Rutault.
As new.
Not in Marie-Hélène Breuil/Didier Mathieu: "Claude Rutault, Imprimés 1973-2013.
Claude RUTAULT
mocatanologue. (bookmark.)

Bookmark.
Bookmark accompanying the book by Claude Rutault "mocatanologue").
15 x 9,4 cm.
Printed on one side only on light grey cardboard.
Created for the presentation of the book "mocatanologue" at Archives Librairie, 52 rue Mazarine, Paris, July 8, 1999.
Designed and created by Claude Rutault.
Book published by the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, MAMCO, Geneva, 1999.
As new.
References and literature:
Marie-Hélène Breuil/Didier Mathieu: "Claude Rutault, Imprimés 1973-2013", CDLA, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, 2014, no. 223, p. 314, ill. p. 291. "bibliographicitation 1973-2000" in: claude rutault, définitions/méthodes le livre. p. 1495.
"Claude Rutault's Writings", Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, in "New aesthetic review" 2011/1 (no. 7): (…) "camotanologist: this monologue serves as a catalog and precisely describes the exhibition of a dm (but which one?) and the behavior of visitors; this hybrid text justifies the portmanteau of the title, which can be reversed into mocatanologue, printed on the bookmark, added to the book" (…).
Marie-Hélène Breuil, "mocatanologist or the use of the bookmark in some publications of Claude Rutault", in "Without level or meter, journal of the cabinet of the artist's book", no. 15, Rennes, University of Rennes 2, Frac Bretagne, School of Fine Arts, p. 4.
As new.
Claude RUTAULT
mocatanologue. (bookmark mock-up)

Ephemera/Original mock-up.
A full sheet of white paper printed in black, showing two matrices of the ephemera for the presentation of the book at Archives', 52 rue Mazarine, Paris, July 8, 1999.
21 x 29.7 cm.
Original mock-up of the bookmark accompanying the Claude Rutault's book "mocatanologue" (Museum of modern and contemporary art, MAMCO, Geneva, 1999).
Created for the presentation of the book "mocatanologue" at Archives Librairie, 52 rue Mazarine, Paris, July 08, 1999.
References and litterature:
Marie-Hélène Breuil/Didier Mathieu: "Claude Rutault, Imprimés 1973-2013", CDLA, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, 2014, no. 223, p. 314, ill. p. 291. "bibliographicitation 1973-2000" in: claude rutault, définitions/méthodes le livre. p. 1495.
"Claude Rutault's Writings", Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, in "New aesthetic review" 2011/1 (no. 7): (…) "camotanologist: this monologue serves as a catalog and precisely describes the exhibition of a dm (but which one?) and the behavior of visitors; this hybrid text justifies the portmanteau of the title, which can be reversed into mocatanologue, printed on the bookmark, added to the book" (…).
Marie-Hélène Breuil, "mocatanologist or the use of the bookmark in some publications of Claude Rutault", in "Without level or meter, journal of the cabinet of the artist's book", no. 15, Rennes, University of Rennes 2, Frac Bretagne, School of Fine Arts, p. 4.
As new.
Claude RUTAULT
Reste(s) (Remain(s)
An artist's book and a bookmark.
– Book

32 pp.
17 x 12 cm.
Printed in b/w offset.
Soft cover, with flaps.
joca seria editions, Nantes, 2000.
– Bookmark of the book “rest(s)”
A card printed in four-color offset on the front and in black on the back.
10.5 x 15 cm.
Text printed on the back of the card: "From March 23 to April 23, 2000, meet at the Café de Flore from 5 to 7 p.m. except Saturdays and Sundays at the table on which is placed either a pile of small raw canvases or this card".
As new.
References:
Marie-Hélène Breuil/Didier Mathieu: "Claude Rutault, Imprimés 1973-2013", CDLA, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, 2014, no. 223, p. 314, ill. p. 291. "bibliographicitation 1973-2000" in: claude rutault, définitions/méthodes le livre. p. 1497.
Claude RUTAULT
Presumably UNPUBLISHED TEXT: "Bibliographicitation 1973 – 1998"

Unique.
Original typescript.
32 sheets of white paper, loose, numbered 1 through 32, inkjet printing, text in French on one side, in black and red inks.
85 paragraphs.
No covers, in its original brown paper mailing envelope.
21 x 13.5 cm.
It is a general bibliography of Cl. Rutault by himself, with 85 entries.
Complete.
As new.
Claude RUTAULT
Le Dernier (The Last)

Artist's book of the same color as this page on which it is displayed.
Unpaginated (30 pp.).
Text in French by C. Rutault and photos in b/w.
Staple bound.
24,1 x 17,1 cm.
JDC Editions, Paris, 2020.
Edition of 000 unnumbered.
Conception/Design: Claude Rutault.
Fine.
Short bibliography
Marie-Hélène Breuil/Didier Mathieu: "Claude Rutault, Imprimés 1973-2013", CDLA, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, 2014.
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Marie-Hélène Breuil, "mocatanologue ou de l'usage du marque-page dans quelques publications de Claude Rutault", in "Sans niveau ni mètre, journal du cabinet du livre d'artiste", no. 15, Rennes, université de Rennes 2, Frac Bretagne, École des beaux-arts, p. 4.
"bibliographicitation 1973-2000" in: "claude rutault, definitions/methods the book", page 1491".
"Écritures de Claude Rutault", Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, in "Nouvelle revue d'esthétique" 2011/1 (no. 7).
Le Creux de l’Enfer: “Claude RUTAULT, expositions chez des particuliers "papiers", appartement de Baudouin Jannink, paris, 1977.
C. Rutault, "AMZ ", 6 actualisations de la même œuvre sur 6 mois - chez Michel Tournereau et Daniel Bosser, Paris, 1987
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