Poster for Nevelson at 85
Pace Publishing

65 Years at Pace

Archival Titles and Posters

Published Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Curated on the occasion of Pace’s 65th anniversary this year, this collection of rare posters, editions, and titles from Pace Publishing celebrates the artists and exhibitions that have shaped the gallery over the past six-and-a-half decades. Explore this special selection of books and archival materials below. 
Cover of Recent Work by Chuck Close

Chuck Close
Recent Work

1977

Paperback
11 × 8 ½ inches
24 pages

Published on the occasion of the artist’s first exhibition at Pace, held in New York in 1977, Chuck Close: Recent Work documents a selection of portraits—including a self-portrait—rendered in acrylic, watercolor, and ink and pencil on canvas and paper. Images of Close working in his studio provide a look into his process.

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5 Action Painters of the ’50s

1979

Text by Harold Rosenberg

Folio
8 ⅛ × 8 ⅛ inches
6 pages: 5 color, 5 bw images

This folio was published on the occasion of the exhibition 5 Action Painters of the ’50s, held September 21 – October 13, 1979, at Pace in New York. Works by Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Lee Krasner, Robert Motherwell, and Jackson Pollock are presented in individual folios, wrapped by a brown sheet of paper printed with “The American Action Painters” by Harold Rosenberg.

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Poster for Sittings by Lucas Samaras

Lucas Samaras
Sittings

1981

Poster
40 × 27 ½ inches

This poster was produced to celebrate the exhibition Lucas Samaras: Sittings, held December 5, 1980 – January 10, 1981, at Pace Gallery in New York.

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Poster for The Sculpture of Picasso

The Sculpture of Picasso

1982

Poster
37 ½ × 24 ½ inches

This poster celebrates the exhibition The Sculpture of Picasso, held September 16 – October 23, 1982, at Pace Gallery in New York.

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Cover of The Sculpture of Miró

The Sculpture of Miró

1984

Text by Peter Schjeldahl

Hardcover
11 ½ × 9 ½ inches
54 pages

“Truly experienced, Miró’s sculptures, like his paintings, induce a sense of disembodiment: not anti-sensually, as in Mondrian or Kandinsky, but with a sensuality freed of all particular relations, raised to a state of oceanic self-identity and self-enjoyment.” Peter Schjeldahl

Spiral-bound with a cardboard cover, this publication contains both color and black-and-white reproductions of Joan Miró’s dynamic sculpture. Published in conjunction with the 1984 exhibition at Pace in New York, The Sculpture of Miró also includes an essay by Peter Schjeldahl.

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Poster for Nevelson at 85

Nevelson at 85

1985

Poster
33 × 27 inches

This poster celebrates the exhibition Nevelson at 85, held February 23 – March 23, 1985, at Pace Gallery in New York.

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Cover and slipcase of Je Suis Le Cahier: The Sketchbooks of Picasso

Je Suis Le Cahier
The Sketchbooks of Picasso

1986

Texts by E. A. Carmean, Françoise Gilot, Arne Glimcher, Sam Hunter, Rosalind E. Krauss, Matthew Marks, Claude Picasso, Theodore Reff, Robert Rosenblum, Gert Schiff

Hardcover
12 ¼ × 9 ½ inches
352 pages

“[The sketchbooks] are the legacy by which we may decipher the process of Picasso’s creativity and understand the cohesive totality of his lifework.” Arne Glimcher

Edited by Arne and Marc Glimcher and published by Atlantic Monthly Press on the occasion of the 1986 exhibition at Pace in New York (the first presentation of its kind), Je Suis Le Cahier traces Picasso’s artistic evolution through his sketchbooks, which he used throughout his career to develop new ideas and styles. With texts by a wide range of contributors and generous reproductions, this volume is an essential reference for Picasso scholars and enthusiasts alike.

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Stabiles by Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder
Stabiles

1989

Paperback
12 × 9 inches
24 pages

Published in 1989, Alexander Calder: Stabiles offers a vibrant exploration of Calder’s iconic stationary sculptures. With an accordion-folded interior, this publication features 25 color illustrations that highlight the dynamic forms and playful geometry of the stabiles.

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Cover of Drawing into Film: Directors’ Drawings

Drawing into Film
Directors’ Drawings

1993

Text by Annette Michelson

Paperback
9 ½ × 10 ¼ inches
102 pages

Drawing into Film: Directors’ Drawings takes as its subject the tangible artifacts of the film director’s artistic process, from scripts and notes to storyboards and drawings. Published in 1993 on the occasion of the exhibition curated by Marc Glimcher and Mark Pollard, this book includes the work of directors Sergei Eisenstein, Alfred Hitchcock, John Huston, Fred Zinnemann, Akira Kurosawa, Orson Welles, Federico Fellini, Robert Benton, Terry Gilliam, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Tim Burton.

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Cover of A Selection of Works 1958 to 1970 by Robert Irwin

Robert Irwin
A Selection of Works 1958 to 1970

1998

Paperback
11 × 9 ½ inches
7 pages

Published in 1998 on the occasion of the exhibition at Pace in New York, Robert Irwin: A Selection of Works 1958–1970 includes full-color reproductions of a tightly-curated selection of Irwin’s evocative paintings and sculptures.

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Cover of Paintings and Writings by Agnes Martin

Agnes Martin
Paintings and Writings

2000

Texts by Arne Glimcher, Agnes Martin

Hardcover
11 ¼ × 11 ¼ inches
58 pages

“[These] works are filled with visual incident and charged with emotion. Stay with a painting, and Martin’s subtle expressionist gestures capture and calm the eye.” Arne Glimcher

In this elegant publication of Agnes Martin’s paintings and writings, published in 2000 on the occasion of the exhibition held at Pace in New York, fifteen of Martin’s acrylic and graphite works from 1999 are presented on vellum paper. In addition to the artist’s musings on life and art, Agnes Martin: Paintings and Writings also includes an introduction by Arne Glimcher.

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Earthly Forms: The Biomorphic Sculpture of Arp, Calder, Noguchi

Earthly Forms
The Biomorphic Sculpture of Arp, Calder, Noguchi

2000

Paperback
9 ¾ × 10 ½ inches
68 pages

Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Pace in New York in 2000, Earthly Forms explores the sculptural practices of three abstract artists—Jean Arp, Alexander Calder, and Isamu Noguchi—that produced organic forms sharing a common spirit. Presented alongside artwork and archival imagery is an essay by Marc Glimcher that outlines the development of this vein of abstraction in each artist’s career.

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Claes Oldenburg/Coosje van Bruggen: Recent Work

Claes Oldenburg/Coosje van Bruggen
Recent Work

2002 

Text by Richard Morphet

Hardcover
12 × 9 ½ inches
40 pages

“The clarity and concentration of each of Oldenburg and van Bruggen’s images gives their sculptures a striking immediate impact, but this leads, for the viewer, to a slower and steadier unfolding of the work’s rich metaphorical content.” — Richard Morphet

Claes Oldenburg/Coosje van Bruggen: Recent Work spotlights a series of sculptures and works on paper created by the artist duo between 1997 and 2002. With Swiss binding and a pocket on the inside front cover that holds a poster of Balzac Pétanique (2002), this book was released to accompany the exhibition held at Pace in New York in 2002.

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Agnes Martin: Recent Paintings Vellum Print

Agnes Martin
Recent Paintings

2003

Vellum print
11 × 11 inches

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Agnes Martin: Recent Paintings, held January 10 – February 24, 2003, at Pace Gallery in New York, this special edition is comprised of a paper folder containing a vellum print of Untitled #1 (2002).

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Cover of The Music Room by Claes Oldenberg / Coosje van Bruggen

Claes Oldenburg / Coosje van Bruggen
The Music Room

2005

Text by Richard Morphet

Paperback
12 ¼ × 9 ½ inches
48 pages

“Though life-affirmative, the work of Oldenburg and van Bruggen is also subversive of convention.” Richard Morphet

Claes Oldenburg / Coosje van Bruggen: The Music Room was published on the occasion of the 2005 exhibition at Pace in New York, in which the duo’s sculptures and drawings of musical instruments took center stage. Amply illustrated, this book includes a text by art historian and curator Richard Morphet.

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Gouaches 1942–1976 by Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder
Gouaches 1942–1976

2006

Paperback
9 ¾ × 10 ½ inches
72 pages

Published in 2006, Alexander Calder: Gouaches: 1942–1976 presents a striking selection of Calder’s colorful gouache paintings on paper, exhibited at Pace in New York. Here, recognizable forms such as birds, suns, stars, and people commingle with abstract spirals, circles, pyramids, and waves, capturing the energy of Calder’s artistic output over three decades.

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Cover of A Conversation with K. Anthony Appiah by Fred Wilson

Fred Wilson
A Conversation with K. Anthony Appiah

2006

Interview with K. Anthony Appiah, Fred Wilson

Paperback
12 ¼ × 9 ¾ inches
42 pages

Published on the occasion of the 2006 exhibition at Pace in New York, this book pairs multidisciplinary artist Fred Wilson with writer and philosopher K. Anthony Appiah for a wide-ranging conversation on Wilson’s life, career, and artistic practice. Amply illustrated with works by Wilson and other artists, Fred Wilson: A Conversation with K. Anthony Appiah also includes an exhibition history and selected bibliography.

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Cover of Lee Ufan

Lee Ufan
Comings and Goings

2008

Text by Silke von Berswordt-Wallrabe

Paperback
11 × 9 inches
84 pages

“In his oeuvre, Lee Ufan is able to bring structures of coexistence to light with relatively simple resources, so that these structures refer far beyond the tangible.” Silke von Berswordt-Wallrabe

In 2008, Lee Ufan held his first exhibition with Pace at both 534 West 25th Street and 32 East 57th Street in New York. This double catalogue uses two separately bound sections to present the work on view in each location, from works on paper to oil paintings and sculpture, as well as a text by Silke von Berswordt-Wallrabe.

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Cover of Drawings (Pins) by Tara Donovan

Tara Donovan
Drawings (Pins)

2011

Text by Jonathan T. D. Neal

Paperback
8 ⅛ × 8 ⅛ inches
46 pages

“One of the gratifications of Donovan’s art [is] the way in which her aggregations take on the notably complex morphologies that can be found in nature, not as representations so much as evocations.” Jonathan T. D. Neal

Tara Donovan: Drawings (Pins) was published on the occasion of the artist’s first exhibition at Pace in 2011 in New York. Presented alongside images of eleven works from Donovan’s Drawing (Pins) series, at varying scales, is an essay by Jonathan T. D. Neal.

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Adolph Gottlieb
Gravity, Suspension, and Motion: Paintings 1954–1972

2012

Text by Pepe Karmel

Paperback
10 ½ × 9½ inches
56 pages

“Over the last two decades of his career, Gottlieb had demonstrated that Abstract Expressionism did not, after all, need to be a subjective style.” — Pepe Karmel

Published in 2012 on occasion of the exhibition at Pace in New York, Gravity, Suspension, and Motion: Paintings 1954–1972 investigates Adolph Gottlieb’s late-career oil paintings, which distilled the visual language of abstraction to reflect essential qualities of the physical world. This publication features an essay by Pepe Karmel along with full-color illustrations of twelve works.

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Cover of Happenings: New York, 1958–1963

Happenings
New York, 1958–1963

2012

Text by Mildred Glimcher

Hardcover
11 × 10 inches
304 pages

Published by Monacelli Press on the occasion of the 2012 exhibition in New York, this volume provides a comprehensive look at the early years of the widely influential Happenings movement, which encompassed the genre-bending, time-based works of artist like Red Grooms, Allan Kaprow, Robert Whitman, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, Simone Forti, and Carolee Schneemann. Edited with text by Mildred Glimcher, Happenings: New York, 1958–1963 brings this unique moment in art history to life through ample archival images and primary source material.

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Calder After the War by Alexander Calder

Calder After the War

2013

Texts by Sir Norman Foster, Barbara Rose. Alexander S. C. Rower

Hardcover
12 ½ × 11 inches
164 pages

This book focuses on Alexander Calder’s artistic output—including sculptures, paintings, gouaches, and other works on paper—during the pivotal post–war period of 1945–1949. Published in conjunction with the 2013 exhibition at Pace London, Calder After the War includes an introduction by Sir Norman Foster, an essay by Barabra Rose, an illustrated chronology by Alexander S. C. Rower, and an English translation of the1946 text “Les Mobiles de Calder” by Jean-Paul Sartre.

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Cover of Here and There by Maya Lin

Maya Lin
Here and There

2013

Texts by William Fox, Maya Lin, Robert Storr

Paperback
10 ½ × 10 ½ inches
87 pages

Published on the occasion of the two-part exhibition held in 2013 at Pace in London and New York, Maya Lin: Here and There presents the artist’s exploration into both local and global natural phenomena. This book contains detailed illustrations of Lin’s sculptural investigations into the geographies of each location (as well as other more far-flung places), with a special focus on waterways. Text contributions by Robert Storr, William Fox, and Lin illuminate the conceptual framework of the works on view.

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Paradise Lost by Raqib Shaw

Raqib Shaw
Paradise Lost

2013

Text by Norman Rosenthal

Hardcover
10 ¾ × 10 ³⁄₁₆ inches
62 pages

“It is [the] fluid movements of memory that allow Raqib Shaw’s fantastical transformations and metamorphoses, which reveal new perspectives of aesthetic depictions of subjective realities.” — Norman Rosenthal

This publication features works from Raqib Shaw’s 2013 exhibition held at Pace in New York, whose opulent scenes respond to themes from John Milton’s Paradise Lost. With text by Norman Rosenthal, Raqib Shaw: Paradise Lost also includes a paperback booklet attached to the hardcover book block that contains images from Shaw’s studio.

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Cover of Wonder by Kiki Smith

Kiki Smith
Wonder

2014

Hardcover
10 ¾ × 9 inches
48 pages

Published on the occasion of the 2014 exhibition at Pace in New York, Kiki Smith: Wonder provides a detailed look at Smith’s distinctive style through a selection of her tapestries, sculptures, and inkjet prints.

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Looking for the Map by Richard Tuttle

Richard Tuttle
Looking for the Map

2014

Portfolio
10 ½ × 8 inches
62 pages

Published on the occasion of the 2014 exhibition at Pace in New York, Richard Tuttle: Looking for the Map was originally conceived as an interactive exercise whereby visitors would arrange separate leaves of paper in their own configurations to create a finished book. This portfolio is comprised of the full set of unbound leaves, illustrating a selection of Tuttle’s sculptures and his accompanying notes.

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Classing Paintings by Adolph Gottlieb

Adolph Gottlieb
Classic Paintings

2019

Text by Kent Mitchell Minturn

Hardcover
11 ¾ × 9 ½ inches
74 pages

“[Gottlieb] takes his canvases up on a high-wire, where he performs a perilous ongoing act that involves a magisterial balance of the past and the here and now, tradition and innovation, flatness and depth, the accidental and the intentional.” — Kent Mitchell Minturn

Adolph Gottlieb: Classic Paintings offers a compelling overview of the artist’s enduring contributions to postwar abstraction. Featuring an essay by Kent Mitchell Minturn, this hardcover catalogue accompanied the exhibition held in 2019 at Pace in New York.

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Basis 70s Drawings by Richard Tuttle

Richard Tuttle
Basis 70s Drawings

2019

Texts by Kent Mitchell Minturn, Richard Tuttle

Paperback
9 × 7 ½ inches
92 pages

In a spiral-bound setting, this publication features color reproductions of Richard Tuttle’s experimental and delicate drawings from the 1970s. Published in conjunction with Pace’s 2019 exhibition Basis 70s Drawings in New York, this book also includes four letters written by Kent Mitchell Minturn, along with commentary and poems written by the artist.

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