The Red Boxers Gilbert & George

Complete set of 8 cards, each 125 x 200 mm (folded) each with a photo-based design printed in gold on front and short printed text by G&G within the card. Each card presented loose in the original G&G mailing envelope, with the artist's red or black stamp 'Red Boxers' to the front, and the oval 'Art for All' blindstamp to the rear flap. A complete set of 'Red Boxers' one of the most sought after and attractive of Gilbert & George's postal sculptures. Each element of this piece was mailed over a period of weeks to friends, collectors and dealers. The franked envelopes of this set indicate that the set was mailed between 23 January and 12 March 1976. Each card is signed by the artists. Cards are entitled as follows: Wooden, Anything, Stone-ish, Moved, Stillness, Come, Study, Chapel. The four red cards have the text printed in red within, each of their envelopes have the "Red Boxers" stamp in red, and the addressee has their name handwritten in red ink on the front of the envelope. However the artists sign each of the red cards in black ink; the four black cards, in comparison, have this colour system inverted in that their text is printed in black, and their envelopes are stamped in black with the addressee also written in black, however with G&G's signatures now written in red ink. All this indicates how important the envelopes are in the formation of the whole work. 12,5x20 cm each card. complete set of 8 cards in original enveloppe