Yoko Ono — Dollar Piece — Printed Matter Membership Multiple with Envelope, Studio One, New York, 2006

Printed Matter membership multiple with original envelope
Offset print on textured paper with companion envelope
Published by Printed Matter, New York
2006
Approx. letter sheet with mailing envelope
Condition: good vintage condition; fold lines, light handling wear, minor creasing and age-related marks to sheet and envelope; adhesive residue and opening wear to envelope present

Issued in 2006 as a benefit multiple for Printed Matter, this work reactivates Yoko Ono’s Dollar Piece, an instruction score first written in spring 1963 during one of the most important periods of her early conceptual practice. The text asks the reader to choose a monetary amount, imagine everything it can purchase, then imagine everything it cannot purchase, before recording the result. Like many of Ono’s early instruction works, the piece shifts the artwork away from object and toward action, imagination, and participation.

The original score belongs to the same moment that produced works later collected in Grapefruit (1964), a publication that helped establish Ono as a central figure within early conceptual art and Fluxus. Rather than producing fixed images, these works operate as proposals — activated mentally rather than materially.

The printed sheet carries a reproduced “Yoko Ono ’06” signature and a Studio One letterhead, while an illustration of the Dakota apartment building appears at the lower edge. The accompanying envelope extends the work into a mail format, placing it within a lineage of circulation objects and artist-distributed multiples.

Within a New Rare inventory the object sits somewhere between correspondence, conceptual score, and fundraising support document. It proposes value while quietly undoing it.

Original period item. Shipping and handling included in the listed price.