JOSEPH BEUYS, Zeichen aus dem Braunraum I – VI, 1984
each 10 x 14,5 cm
offset, 6 postcards
each signed in pencil, complete set
condition fine, apart from aged card on top of stack
published by Edition Staeck, Heidelberg, Germany
very rare as a series
special offer: € 680,- and free Track & Trace registered mail
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History of price:
Jeschke Jádi Auctions, Berlin, Germany 7 December 2024 € 750 (hammer price)
DOROTHY IANNONE, A Thousand and One Songs for Erik Bock, 2019
43 x 30,7 x 2,5 cm
cardboard box, loosely inserted colour photo in glued on photo corners, 9 offset prints incl. index sheet with credits, 2 CD’s fixed on inner side of lid, postcard
signed, numbered
edition 150
mint
published by Tochnit Aleph, Berlin, Germany
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“Not every love is forever, nor is an unimaginable longevity necessary in order that a love qualify as memorable. I once derived a great deal of pleasure as well as artistic inspiration (and eventually, some pain, I must admit) from a sexual and intellectual friendship with an emotionally thrifty (as he himself would be the first to admit) but very beautiful gentleman from a neighbouring country, north of Berlin, my adopted home, and whom I’m so glad I met long ago.
“These recordings were made for him, to give him pleasure, and pride in his being, as well as for myself, so that I could continue my immersion in our relationship when, for short periods, we were apart…..”
From the liner-notes by Dorothy Iannone, November 2017
GUGLIELMO ACHILLE CAVELLINI, Untitled, 1973
72 x 59,5 cm
screen print on white canvas
hand signed initials with pencil, dated
edition 100, here a not numbered print
verso: stamped with artist’s name and address
condition is very fine, with four pinholes in the corners
€ 200,- plus € 20,- registered mail Track & Trace
This cloth object with Italian text is a reproduction of the artist’s handwriting. Guglielmo Achille Cavellini is a prominent Mail Artist, associated with the Poesia Visiva movement. In 1971 he invented autostoricizzazione (self-historicization), upon which he acted to create a deliberate popular history surrounding his existence, preferably in his personal handwriting. He was well known for his performances in lettered suits and this self-created historification from birth until 2037, including the announcements on his various years of death.
History of prices:
Palazzo Cigola-Fenaroli-Valotti, Brescia, Italy € -,- 10 February 2023
Casa d’Aste Capitolium, Italy € 140,- (i.e. nr 28/100), 10 December 2020 (hammer price)
Artesegno Casa d’Aste, Udine, Italy € 100,- 5 July 2017 – nr 85/100, (excl. premium)
Finarte/Semenzato Casa d’Aste, Venice, Italy € 1.860,-, 18 October 2008 – not numbered print (incl. premium)
TAKAKO SAITO, Games, 1976
ca 50,4 x 35,3 cm
handmade cardboard folio with 21 offset prints, ink stamp, collage
signed, numbered, dated in print
nr 4/200, only ca 20 have been made
published by Noodle Edition, Düsseldorf, Germany
condition: excellent, lightly discoloured on the outside
extremely rare
ask for details
€ 4.800,- plus € 32,- Track & Trace registered mail
Priavate collecion, Amsterdam, Margin scheme
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Each sheet is provided with a speech cloud and shows instructions of the game that may be played. This folder contains 7 different prints colored-in by the artist. Each print comes with 2 extra blank black and white prints, obviously meant for colouring them yourself. This game was designed to be played with other objects or pieces, as stated in Saito’s notes.
Two hundred signed and numbered copies were planned but ONLY circa 20 were made by Takako and sold (hence an early number from the edition). The amount of prints may vary from copy to copy. Fondazio Luigi Bonotto in Colseresa in Italy has a copy (number 5/200) with 8 different prints in its collection.
Ref. Takako Saito Fondazione Bonotto.
Introduction print in folio:
Example of coloured-in print plus two black and white copies
OLIVIER MOSSET, Untitled, 1991
ca 50 x 80 cm
screen print
signed, dated, numbered
edition 100
condition: pristine
€ 2.600,- plus € 15,- Track & Trace registered mail
Olivier Mosset is known for his circle paintings he made in the sixties. Basically he is interested in not only hard edge and monochrome paintings, but also in geometric signs like the letter A, dollar signs, crosses, squares, etc. Here he makes a small square balancing on one of its corners by using two arrows.
BEN VAUTIER, La vie est un film, 2019
ca 50 x 40 cm
signed, numbered
edition 100
published by Editions Galerie Eva Vautier, Nice, France
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This screen print was made parallel with the introduction of a film about Ben Vautier “la vie est un film”.
History of price:
Galerie Eva Vautier, Nice June 2019 € 450,-
ZOE LOENARD / Fierce Pussy, “List” posters, 1991
each 43,1 x 48 cm
Xeroxgraphy, stack of posters with sticker as issued
some slightly yellowed due to age
provenance: Printed Matter, New York, USA
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‘During the collective’s first meeting, at Zoe Leonard’s apartment in East Village in 1991, its members adopted Robert’s Rules of Order * and produced a no-frills poster on the spot using paper, scissors, a typewriter and inserted texts in between a matrix with capitals: “I AM A …… AND PROUD!”, i.e. words like “I AM A lezzie, butch, pervert, girlfriend, bulldagger, sister, dyke AND PROUD!” were used.
This is a stack of one of the first “List” posters printed by a New York-based collective with Nancy Brooks Brody and Zoe Leonard in 1991. The latter were respectively working in the design departments at GQ and Traveller magazines in the group’s early days. During quiet moments around the office, they ran off hundreds of patchy Fierce Pussy posters on the available copy machines.’
* Robert’s Rules of Order is the most widely used manual of parliamentary procedure in the United States. It governs the meetings of a diverse range of organizations — including church groups, county commissions, homeowners associations, nonprofit associations, professional societies, school boards, and trade unions — that have adopted it as their parliamentary authority.
Ref. NY Arts Magazine, p.54, Vol. 13
YOKO ONO / JOHN LENNON, War Is Over! If you want it, n.d. [1969]
75,5 x 50,5 cm
block print letterpress
edition unknown
extremely rare in this vintage condition
condition: aged with various pinholes, two small tears in lower part
hand written text in pencil at lower left: ‘Sonja Carnaby Street London 1969’
Collection Thora Johansen, Amsterdam
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“War Is Over, if you want it” is a 1969 poster and billboard action that inspired so much political action that the president of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson sought to have British Yoko Ono and John Lennon deported for fear that they would undermine his foreign policy and political fortunes.
At the lower left corner the following text is written in pencil: Sonja Carnaby Street London 1969.
Additional information:
This version of the poster with sub-text ‘Love and Piece from John & Yoko’ is in the collection of MoMA / Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA. In 1969 Yoko Ono and John Lennon showed the poster with the sub-text ‘Happy Christmas from John & Yoko’.
BRUD, Gewgaw, 2018
ca 90 x 65 cm
screen print, fluorescent ink
signed, numbered, dated
edition 15 + 9 AP
GLENN LIGON, Untitled (Barber shop), 2009
48 x 33 cm
offset, printed on MC paper
splendid condition
€ 950,- plus € 32,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
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Originally this poster was clandestinely distributed on the streets in Toronto.
Glenn Ligon is at the forefront of a generation of artists who came to prominence in the late 1980s with conceptually based work that investigates the social, linguistic, and political constructions of race, gender, and sexuality.
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