GER VAN ELK, Western Stylemasters, 1991
115 x 90 cm
photography
signed, numbered, combined dated
edition 50
not available
In the eighty’s Ger van Elk started to combine photographic illusion and reality with the Dutch 17th centuary art history, such as painted landscapes, still lives, portraits and animals. In his work ‘Western Stylemasters’ the standing artist looks at himself sitting, as such portrayed as part of a group of samplers as in Rembrandt’s paintings having the task to certify textiles.
DAMIEN HIRST, With Dead Head, 1991
19,4 x 24,4 cm / 7 5/8 x 9 5/8 inches
C print
signed, numbered
edition 1000
In September 2008, Damien Hirst sold a complete show ‘Beautiful Inside My Head Forever’ at Sotheby’s by auction and by-passing his galleries he works with. The auction raised £ 111 million ($198 million), breaking Hirst’s own record with £ 10.3 million for The Golden Calf, an animal with 18-carat gold horns and hooves, preserved in formaldehyde. Nowadays, and already for years, he owns Other Criteria a commercial company publishing prints, editions and books by himself in the first place and established artists.
History of prices:
Artax Kunsthandel, Düsseldorf, Germany June 2013 € 2.800,-
Phillips Auction, New York, USA (Lot nr 243) September 2007 US$ 1,950.-
Additional information
DAMIEN HIRST, With Dead Head, 1991
57 x 76 cm / 22,5 x 30 inches
photographic print on aluminum, signed, numbered
edition 15
Sotheby’s Auction, London, England June 2004 € 25.200,- / GBP 21,600.-
OLIVIER MOSSET, Untitled [Flux dots], 1990
30 x 30 cm / 11 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches
unique colour photo, framed
series of 30 different prints
numbered, signed, dated
published by Galerie van Gelder Editions, Amsterdam, Netherlands
p.o.r.
In 1990 Olivier Mosset was invited to make a proposal for Galerie van Gelder Editions. For this he made use of a George Maciunas edition from the sixties: Flux Dots by Olivier Mosset Total Art Nice, a little plastic box filled with home discs referring to the circle paintings of Mosset, as Maciunas once explained to Olivier Mosset. Mosset liked the idea of shuffling up the red confetti every time before a colour photo would be taken. Hence a series of unique works was eventually realised based on Maciunas’ box.
Olivier Mosset in discussion with Kees van Gelder about how to produce his photo edition “Untitled 1990”, in Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam 1990.
Added information:
On 7th of June in 2023 a particular lot was auctioned at Auction house Metayer Merdoz in Paris. In some way four prints out of this series were put together into a square and offered, apparently as a work in itself.
De Slagersvriend, number 3, 1989
32,6 x 43,6 x 5,8 cm
wooden case, green velvet interior with lettering in gold, content: original photos by Rineke Dijkstra, Koen Wessing, Willem Diepraam, Johan van der Keuken, Eli Content, a.o.
signed, numbered
edition 24
published by Eli Content, Amsterdam
HANNES VAN ES, Confrontated, In Crisis and Portraits, 1971
A4, 5 parts
black & white photos in original frames
signed, dated, number 1/8, unique
planned edition 8 of which only this unique series came into production
published by Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
€ 3.400,-
inv.HvE 000-pr
In the early seventies the artists Hannes van Es and Louwrien Wijers lived on a boat. Both artists were only influenced by their time of hippie dom and alternative ways of living together. In their case they were specifically inspired by Ben d’Armagnac and Ger Dekker. The individual titles of this series of photos are “hannes van es confrontated” [sic], “louwrien wijers in crisis”, “louwrien wijers in crisis”, “portrait of louwrien wijers” and “portrait of hannes van es”.
CHARLOTTE MOORMAN, untitled, n.d. [between 1965-1970]
30,8 x 22,5 cm
photostat on heavy brown card board
verso: signed
signature on sticker with red coloured stamp ‘Vertrieb durch Reflection Press / Stuttgart 61, Raichbergstrasse 7’
published by Vertrieb durch Reflection Press, Stuttgart, Germany
splendid condition, extremely well conserved, framed behind anti-UV glass very rare
€ 1.450,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.ChMoor 321-pr
Charlotte Moorman had been found guilty of indecent exposure and given a suspended sentence for performing naked.
This picture was probably taken during the ’24 Stunden happening’ in Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal in June 1965. The camera in the background appears in several other photos taken during this performance.
Added information:
The picture below was taken during the same performance, hence the presence of the same camera on the lid of the piano at the background. It is a documentation by Studio Montespecchio (Montese, Italy) describing a photo copy (by a photostat machine) mounted on thick cardboard as well and has also been published by Vertrieb durch Reflection Press, Stuttgart in Germany.
MAN RAY, Tonsure (Marcel Duchamp), 1984
15 x 10 cm / 4″ x 6″
postcard, cream coloured
edition unknown
published by Fotofolio, New York, USA, 1984
€ 145,- + € 8,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.MRay 146-pr
Throughout his career Marcel Duchamp recasted accepted modes for assembling and describing identity. In 1917, having recently arrived in the United States, Duchamp found special significance in a mechanically produced photo-postcard that depicted him simultaneously from five different vantage points, thanks to a hinged mirror: ‘Five-Way Portrait of Marcel Duchamp’.
In 1921 Duchamp famously pictured himself as Rrose Sélavy (Eros c’est la vie: a pun translating to “Eros is life,” when pronounced aloud in French). He would associate himself with this female persona throughout the remainder of his career. At the same time, he posed for well-known photographs in which he sported an unconventional tonsure emblazoned with a star. This photo was taken in 1921. Soon thereafter, he used mugshots to cast himself as a criminal of many aliases wanted for running an illegal gambling operation.
Another example of a staged portrait of Marcel Duchamp photographed by Man Ray and used for a Monte Carlo bond:
Marcel Duchamp, Monte Carlo Bond ‘Obligation de Cinq Cents Francs’, 1924
collage of colour lithograph with photograph by Man Ray of Marcel Duchamp’s soap-covered head
