Extremely rare collector's head - PANAMARENKO... Lot 769

Extremely rare collector's head - [PANAMARENKO] - "Milkyways". N° 1, 2, 3 and 4 (out of 6 in total). S.l.n.d. (Sept.-Dec. 1965), 3 vols. 4° and 1 vol. in-folio, stapled, illustrated cover, rhodoïd. First edition. Includes: 1. 16 pages printed in blue - 2. 16 pages printed in black with portraits of Panamarenko, Hugo Heyrman, Wout Vercammen and Bernd Lohaus. Contributions by Tony Rombouts and Jeroen Henneman.3. 8 pages printed in black on glossy paper. Contributions by Panamarenko, Hugo Heyrman, Wout Vercammen, Yoshio Nakajima and Thomas Jaspers.4. 9 pages printed in black on different types of paper. Ex. No. 71 (without Marcel Broodthaers' intervention). "Milkyways" is an art magazine whose contributors are Hugo Heyrman, Panamarenko, Wout Vercammen, Bernd Lohaus and Yoshio Nakajima. These artists form the core group behind these wonderful and playful editions. Echoing the literary aspirations, fuelled by Henry Miller, Arthur Rimbaud and many others, these publications must be considered a "historical" event. The edition varies from 800 copies for the first issue to a hundred for the last ones. The complete series (6 issues in total) is extremely difficult to obtain. Only about ten are known.