Leeds: A New Card Game

Robert Filliou (1926-1987)
Leeds: A New Card Game
signed and numbered '52/100 R Filliou' (on a card affixed to the lower interior of the box)
deck of double-sided playing cards, two blindfolds, visor, chip rake, two elastic sleeve garters, felt playing mat in wooden box with instructions and gelatin silver print
box: 2³⁄₄ x 14⁵⁄₈ x 12³⁄₄in. (7 x 37 x 32.5cm.)
Executed in 1976, this work is number fifty-two from an edition of one hundred

Steven Leiber Collection, San Francisco.
Tom Patchett Collection, Los Angeles.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Los Angeles, Track 16 Gallery, Flappenings and Huxus, 1996.
Leeds, Henry Moore Institute, Robert Filliou: The Institute of Endless Possibilities, 2013 (another from the edition exhibited).
Los Angeles, Track 16 Gallery, Here Comes Fluxus, 2016.
Antwerp, M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Tentoonstelling: Robert Filliou - The Secret of Permanent Creation, 2016-2017 (another from the edition exhibited).
New York, Peter Freeman, Robert Filliou: Seule la Fête est Permanente: Works 1962-1984, 2018 (another from the edition exhibited).

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