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DAVID HAMMONS, Rousing the Rubble, 1991

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DAVID HAMMONS, Rousing the Rubble, 1991
HC, dust cover, 96 pp.
published by The Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S. 1 Museum, New York, USA
mint
€ 385,- plus € 15,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.DHam 1144

For decades David Hammons consciously avoided the attention of critics, galleries, and museums. Meanwhile he preferred “doing things in the street.” In 1997 I visited Jack Tilton Gallery in New York. At the back office ‘hidden’ on the top of a cupboard an evocative elephant’s dung decorated with beads and the like was put there ‘for sale’, i.e. not really fanatically, so to say. Nowadays David Hammons’ works are highly estimated and part of What’s on in the arts. KvG

History of prices:
Amazon-David Platzker, New York, USA, March 2025 US$ 575.-
eBay-piperita76maria, Middle Village NY, USA December 2024 US$ 550.-
Ursus Books, New York, USA November 2023 US$ 650.-
Amazon-brookb, New York, USA, November 2022 US$ 700.-
Amazon-brookb, New York, USA, February 2022 US$ 800.-
Patrick Andersson Antikvariat, Lund, Sweden, October 2021 US$ 599.-
Amazon, October 2021 US$ 215.-

HANNES VAN ES, Selfportrait, 1973 [black and white photo]

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HANNES VAN ES, Selfportrait, 1973
23,8 x 17,6 cm
unique vintage photo print
title and year hand written by artist
condition poor; pin holes at four corners, dog’s ears, stains, although splendid condition of print itself
Private collection, Amsterdam
ask for details
inv.HvE 1141-pr

 

Hannes van Es entitled this photograph as a ‘Selfportrait 1973’ written in the artist’s handwriting. At the back side an ink stamped address shows the name C.W. van Vlijmen, who married ceramist Lies Ram on 27 augustus 1959. Further details about the photographer have not been found.

DAVID HORVITZ, Studio Rent Editions, 2015 [mail]

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DAVID HORVITZ, Studio Rent Editions, 2015
29,7 x 21 cm
mail in print
inv.DHor 000-pr
 

Hi,
After a year of itinerant studios in free residences, I’ve re-started my studio rent edition series. If you don’t know this, they are a series of monthly editions that subsidizes my monthly studio rent. They are all an edition of 10 and sold for 1/10th of my studio rent. I’ve done this for years. Most of previous ones are sold out (some are available at my gallery in Berlin). Each month I send out an email describing the new piece, and you can purchase one, and it is then mailed to ou. Maybe this series could also be seen a a monthly mail art project as well. I’ve stopped posting info online, just sending their descriptions through emails like this, to keep things more ephemeral.
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MICHAEL GIBBS, Extinction, 1974 [booklet]

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MICHAEL GIBBS, Extinction, 1974
9,9 x 14,7 cm
booklet, 8 pp., stapled
published by In-Out productions, Amsterdam
condition: fine, 1 cm wide light scuffing at top edge of front cover, slightly colour aged
€ 180,- plus € 15,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.MGib 1135

This booklet was purchased at Other Books and So in Amsterdam that was owned and run by Ulises Carrión. At the top right corner of the cover Ulises made notes in pencil about the price (Dfl. 1,-) and from whom the copies were taken in stock, here 8x ‘car’ in total. As such this copy has a special touch of archival history.

Gibbs’s first solo exhibition after having moved to Amsterdam was “Extinction” which was held from March 26 to April 6, 1974 in In-Out Center. It was closely related to the theme ‘language operations’ of his concrete and visual poetry, for which this booklet was published. He used photomontage superimposing an alphabet that becomes energized while obliterated by a fire extinguisher. For that action a polystyrene and hardboard template of the alphabet was doused in petrol, set on fire, and put out with an extinguisher by the artist. The same year Gibbs performed ‘Extinction’ life on 21 november 1974 at de Jan van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht.

History of price:
William Allen Word & Image, London, UK US$ 90.17, 1 October 2021