Stefan Sulzer | The day my mother touched Robert Ryman

Stefan Sulzer
The day my mother touched Robert Ryman
Zurich, Switzerland: Edition Taube, 2015
17.5 × 11 cm.
Edition of 17 signed and numbered copies

Interspersed with statements and information about the work of Robert Ryman, this slim artist book tells the story of a trip to the Beacon, New York Dia Art Foundation, during which Sulzerr's mother became frustrated by the elegant simplicity of Ryman’s paintings and slowly slid her hand over one of them.

The first 17 copies of The day my mother touched Robert Ryman was published as a special edition by Edition Taube. Each comes in a custom-made box, covered in linen and embossed with the title. The work is signed, numbered and touched by the artist's mother.

The regular edition is sold out, but the special edition is available from the publisher, for 475,00 €, here.

Ryman died in his Greenwich Village, Manhattan home on Friday, at the age of 88.