PHILLIPS (Tom). Seven Miniatures Op. XIV. London, Tetrad Pre - Lot 193

PHILLIPS (Tom). Seven Miniatures Op. XIV. London, Tetrad Press, 1971. Suite of 7 plates, preceded by a title leaf (25 x 35 cm.), oblong in-folio, in publisher's cover. Rare artist's collection by Tom Phillips (1937-2022). Commentary on the artist's website: "First performed by John Tilbury in the New English Music Concerts Purcell Room, RFH London, 1971 Seven Miniatures is a set of largely theatrical pieces of very short duration usually based on visual cues supplied in the score (e.g. a piece made up of a succession of characteristic attitudes of celebrated pianists)". Limited edition of 100 copies: this one No. LXXI, with a signed autograph letter from the artist to Robert Altmann (1915-2017), avant-garde publisher and art collector who founded the Brunidor publishing house in New York in 1947.