SYLVIE FLEURY, Vital perfection, 1991
15,5 x 13 cm
SC, stapled, 12 pp., inlay with text
published by Galerie Philomene Magers, Bonn, Germany extremely rare
condition: very good, slightly daylight bleached alongside spine at the front of cover
€ 295,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.SF 358-140-pr
This is the first catalogue of works by Sylvie Fleury. Shopping bag installation “It’s Clinique Bonus Time’ (1991) has been installed by her for a second time at Galerie van Gelder in Amsterdam in 1992. She added paper shopping bags from Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, USA, including her shoppings.
Added information:
For some reason it is seldom mentioned that the paper bag installations contain original shoppings of Sylvie Fleury. At the time she installed the piece she doubted to take her shoppings with her back home, since all these cloths were personal belongings that fitted her.
SYLVIE FLEURY, Hotheels, 1999
13,5 x 18,7 x 3 cm
2 sets of six different notecards in wrappers, 13 envelopes, cardboard box
published by Hugo Boss
very good condition, rare
€ 245,- plus € 15,- track & Trace registered EU mail
This publication with 2 sets notecards in cardboard box was produced to mark the auction of Sylvie Fleury Formula 1 Dress created by Hugo Boss.
SYLVIE FLEURY, Vogue, 1992
each 28,6 x 23 cm / size cassette open: 32 x 52,5 cm
edition 24
each cassette contains 2 analogue photo prints
colour photos on aluminum, linen covered cassette
one signed photo as issued, numbered, dated
Galerie van Gelder Editions, Amsterdam
p.o.r.
inv.SF 000
recto signed copy:
More detailed information:
For her solo exhibition in Galerie van Gelder Sylvie Fleury made a drawing ad hoc in which is shown how she wanted to have the VOGUE edition spread out all over the gallery walls. The small squares in the drawing refer to the artist’s idea.
SYLVIE FLEURY, drawing, 1992
29,7 x 21 cm
byro ink on paper, with note in pencil by KvG
inv.SF 000
SYLVIE FLEURY, Formula One Dress, 1999 + 2 bags
dress 147,3 x 72,4 cm / 58 x 28 1/2 inches, fitting shoulder bag (stretched out size: 76,8 x 33 cm / 30 1/4 x 13 inches)
hand-tailored dress with original Formula One fabric, original Formula One logos, two-way zipper and printed lining dress;
including customized silver coloured shoulder bag manufactured by Hugo Boss
original packaging
signed and numbered on inside label
edition 100
pristine; never used very rare as complete set and in this condition includingblack Hugo Boss BIG BAG protective storage bag
€ 4.200,- plus € 32,- Track & Trace registered mail / Margin Scheme
During the Hugo Boss launch in 1999 of Sylvie Fleury’s Formula One Dress dress fashion models walked around who drank wine, champagne and the like. Quite a few dresses came out of this with stains. More than two decades later to find a dress in this never-used and pristine condition is a rarity.
Most of the time the black and white BIG BAG protection bag is lacking.
History of prices:
Quittenbaum Kunstauktionen, Munich, Germany, 29 June 2022 € 3.000,- (excl. black storage bag and 34% premium)
Kunzt Galerie, Munich, Germany, March 2021 € 11.300,-
Kunzt Gallerie, Munich, Germany, 12 October 2020 € 11.300,-
Phillips, London, UK, £5,000 – 7,000 September 2010 (estimate)
SYLVIE FLEURY, Edition 120, 1993
50 x 50 cm
synthetic fur, original cardboard box with sticker
edition 120, hand numbered
published by Neue Galerie Graz, Austria
not available
Mont Blanc paper shopping bags, 2002
each 25 x 18 x 7,5 cm
signed in print, machine numbered
splendid, mint condition
limited edition of 4810
splendid condition; unused
very rare as set of 6
€ 1.450,- plus € 32,- Track & Trace registered mail
Shoppings bags by Jean-Marc Bustamante: Untitled, 2002
Anne and Patrick Poirier: ‘Demail le soleil rouge se levera aussi sur le mont blanc’, 2002
David Lachapelle: ‘All American’, 2002
Gary Hume: ‘Love letter in your pyjamas’, 2002
Sylvie Fleury: ‘Kustom Bag Kommando’, 2002
and Sam Taylor-Wood: ‘Kyoto girl’, 2002
History of price:
eBay/KleineAnzeigen-XaverWeldner, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany December 2022 € 300,- (id est 3 used bags)
Mechanical Reproduction, 1994
14,8 x 10,5 cm
artists: HENRY BOND & LIAM GILLICK, SYLVIE FLEURY, RICHARD HAWKINS, ARNOLD MOSSELMAN and WOLFGANG TILLMANS
17 machine produced photos, 2 pages with text, transparant celluloid cover, 20 pp.
hand numbered
edition 50 extremely rare
published by Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
€ 1.500,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered mail
Published on behalf of exhibition ‘Een goed in de weg staande tafel’ / “A table absolutely standing in the way” in Galerie van Gelder in 1994, curator Jack Jaeger.
SYLVIE FLEURY
no title, 1993
100,5 x 70,5 cm
edition 200 of which 100 are signed, numbered and dated
published by Galerie van Gelder Editions, Amsterdam, Netherlands
mint
€ 300,- plus € 18,- registered mail
Galerie van Gelder Editions invites artists to come up with an idea for wrapping paper to be used in the gallery for wrapping sold art works.
History of prices:
Kunstauktionshaus Schloss Ahlden, Ahlden, Germany € 500,- 28 November 2020 (hammer price)
Galerie van Gelder Editions, Amsterdam, Netherlands € 95,- / Dfl. 200,- September 1993 (year of issue)
SYLVIE FLEURY, Slim-Fast / vanille, 1993
15 x 18 x 10 cm
screen print on wooden block
signed, numbered
edition 250
condition: very good
published by Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
€ 650,- plus € 28,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
A recurrent contamination of the masculine world and the feminine, of fashion and art or advertising is seen in the works of Sylvie Fleury. In the early nineties she showed in her first exhibition with John M Armleder and Olivier Mosset a pile of empty Coco Chanel boxes intuitively collected by her for years, because of its attractiveness as she once said. Her installations with shopping bags triggered people to call her the ‘Bag Lady’ at a certain point. Nowadays her work is described as political, but definitively her oeuvre does not lack a post-conceptual attitude at all. With the multiple ‘Slim-Fast’ she shows that the idea is very close to how the artist originally was attracted by the Coco Chanel mascara and perfume boxes, only now more rationally made with a tongue-in-cheek to Pop-art.
History of prices:
Piasa, Paris, France 27 September 2023 € 350 (hammer price)
Dorotheum, Vienna, Austria 10 October 2022 € 576,-
Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland August 1993 SFr 500,-
SYLVIE FLEURY, The Art of Survival, 1993
27 x 21 cm, 72 pp.
artist’s magazine / artist’s book,
SC, Lumbeck binding
edition unknown
published by Verlag Walther König, Cologne, Germany / Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
very good condition rare
€ 200,- plus € 18,- registered mail
This is the first catalogue of Sylvie Fleury designed as if it is a fashion magazine. Due to its Lümbeck binding and aging of the glue almost all copies collapse into a bunch of loose pages when used. Here still in well-bound shape, hence rare.
History of prices:
Anartist, New York, USA January 2025 € 249,-
Booklooker, € 140,- November 2022
Amazon-USA, US$ 688.- October 2022
Amazon-USA, US$ 822.- 28 May 2021
Amazon-UK, GBP 590.12 21 April 2020
Amazon-USA, US$ 794.- 19 December 2017
