BARBARA KRUGER, Untitled (Kiss), 2019 [Artek stool, stamp signed]

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BARBARA KRUGER, Untitled (Kiss), 2019
44 x 38 x 38 cm
Artek stool 60 with text, industrial paint, wood, screws, booklets
numbered verso on seat of stool, artist’s name ink stamped in red on cardboard box
edition 600, here nr 281
original packaging and booklets
published by ICA, London, UK
condition: mint
€ 1.100,- incl. Track & Trace registered mail
inv.BKrug 836

 

A second and final run doubled the original edition of 300, here number 281 i.e. part of the first run. Apparently publisher ICA had second and third thoughts when it came to a final edition number. It first decided to extend the edition from 300 to 500. Then another 100 were added and presented as a final second run of 300 copies. Below you will find a screen shot of their website made on 7th of December 2019 and a screen shot d.d. 4 March 2020.

 

 

History of prices:
Milea Bros Ltd, Boonton NJ, USA 14 February 2025 US$ 1,000.- (hammer price)
New Art Editions. The Hague, Netherlands January 2025 € 1.500,-
K&K Auktionen, Heidelberg, Germany 8 November 2024 € 1.300,- (hammer price)
Artsy-Kumi Contemporary, London, UK May 2024 GBP 1,750.-
Mo-Art Gallery, Amsterdam € 1.500 May 2024
Bonhams, London, UK GBP 600 20 September 2023 (hammer price)
Mo-Art Gallery, Amsterdam € 1.500 September 2023
Wright Auction, Chicago, USA € 2.040 4 May 2023 -2nd set of 2 stools (hammer price)
Wright Auction, Chicago, USA € 1.496 4 May 2023 -1st set of 2 stools (hammer price)
Bonhams Auction, London € 1.115,- 2 June 2023 incl. premium
1stDibs, Jersey City, USA € 3.617,- January 2023
Smolensky Gallery, Manchester, UK GBP 1,700.- January 2023
ICA, London, UK GBP 2,000.- September 2022
Artware, New York, USA US$ 3,500.- July 2022
Phillips Auctions, London, UK GBP 1,515.- 20 January 2022
Commodity Gallery, Los Angeles, USA US$ 3,500.- October 2021
Artsy-Alpha 137 Gallery, New York, USA US$ 2,400.- September 2021
Wright Auction, Chicago, USA € 1.525 15 July 2021 (hammer price)
Artware, New York, USA US$ 2,000.- April 2021
ArtRepublic.com, Benbury, England, UK € 1.785,- April 2021
eBay-artwiseonline, Brooklyn, New York, USA US$ 3,500.- March 2021
eBay-can-buy-my-art, The Hague, Netherlands US$ 2,200.- March 2021
Bonhams Auction, London € 846,- 10 December 2020 incl. premium
Bonhams Auction, London € 1.822,- 17 October 2020 incl. premium
Artware, New York, USA US$ 2,000.- 26 August 2020
Bonhams Auction, London € 844,- 19 June 2020 incl. premium
PopFineArt.com, between US$ 1,000 – US$ 2,500.- 8 March 2020
ICA, London, UK GBP 1,000.- 4 March 2020
ICA, London, UK GBP 650.- 10 December 2019 – sold out 30-12-2019
ICA, London, UK GBP 450.- 23 October 2019

 

ULISES CARRIÓN, Bókasyning / Bookshow, 1980 [invitation card]

ULISES CARRIÓN, Bókasyning / Bookshow, 1980
12 x 17.3 cm
invitation card
Nylistasafnid / The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
stamp ink and wear at right top corner caused by mailing
rare
€ 300,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.UCarr 823
 

“This exhibition includes books by more than one hundred artists from 25 countries. Except for a special Icelandic section asembled [sic] by Árni Ingólfsson, they all come from the Other Books and So Archive of Amsterdam.
Although varying in origin scope, and intentions, all the books in this show are outstanding examples of ‘book art’ – each one of them was conceived as an autonomous art work.
Whether by means of typography, photography, handwriting, photocopy or drawing, they subvert our age old understanding of books and open up new hopes for the book’s significance in an era of multimedia communication. U. Carrión.”

 

See: ULISES CARRIÓN, Other Books, exhibition leaflet with list of artist’s books.

ALLAN KAPROW, announcement, 1977

ALLAN KAPROW, announcement, 1977
28 x 21,5 cm
original photo copy and folded as issued and mailed
published by Other Books and So, Amsterdam
rare
inv.AKapr 825
 

This leaflet announces an exhibition of posters and flyers of happenings by Allan Kaprow, who is known for being the inventor of happenings, a term he coined in New York in 1958.