Alone together: Alone (Facing East), alone (Facing West), 2000
96,5 x 77,5 cm / 38 x 30 1/2 inches
screenprints, enamel ink, glitter, 2 parts
edition 100 + 8 AP + 2 PP, here nr 38/100
published by The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
mint
€ 4.000,- excluding transport / insurance
sold
This portfolio is the eighteenth edition in The New Museum’s Limited Edition Program, and was produced by Donald Sheridan, the printmaker responsible for Andy Warhol’s diamond dust prints. It depicts two glittery pandas that are mirror images of each other. Placed back to back, the pandas form ‘Together Alone’, and appear as if in an argument. Facing one another, the pandas form ‘Together’, and the bamboo stalks in their paws unite to create a heart.
In the late 1980s Rob Pruitt was, along with Jack Early, part of the collaborative art team Pruitt-Early, a duo that was instantly touted as a pair of intrepid, iconoclastic newcomers—that is, until a 1992 show at Leo Castelli Gallery, where the two artists paid tribute to black culture by splashing paint on foil, shrink-wrapping posters of famous African Americans, and supplying their own rap soundtrack. Today that kind of show wouldn’t read as much of a shock, let alone a scandal, but in the early ’90s, the culture was still fully entrenched in the dicta of political correctness. Protests ensued, their work was accused of being racist, and, soon after, the pair disbanded.
Alone (Facing East) and Alone (Facing West) are the first limited edition prints ever produced by Rob Pruitt.
History of prices
Phillips, New York October 2012 € 6.696,- (hammer price) 28 October 2014
Ketterer Kunst estimate: € 3.800-€ 4.500 7 juni 2014
Auction Sotheby’s, London, England € 3.206,- / USD 3,836 (excl. 25% Buyer’s premium)
Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam February 2016 € 4.000,- (edition nr 38/100) purchased by Kevin Brewer, London, England
Artspace, New York, USA October 26 October 2016 US$ 7,500.- (edition nr 38/100) provenance: (flip-) art collector Kevin Brewer, London, England
MARCO BAGNOLI, Albe of zonsopgangen, 1984 [invitation]
41,8 x 29,6 cm
3 parts: invitation + A4 persbericht + A4 travel directions
published by Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam
pristine, rare
€ 160,-
RAÚL MARROQUIN, announcement “Telephone Piece”, 1983
42,2 x 30,2 cm
offset print,
TBA / Time Based Arts, November bulletin: Sound Works
twice folded as mailed
published by Vereniging van Videokunstenaars, Amsterdam
excellent condition, although very slightly aged paper
€ 190,- + € 15,- registered mail
inv.RMar 990
This poster announces presentations by Relly Tarlo / Jacoba Bedaux, Raúl Marroquin and Daniel Brun.
OLIVIER MOSSET, untitled, 1991
107 x 107 cm (100 x 100)
screen print on colored heavy paper, framed
verso: signed, numbered, dated
edition 25
rare
€ 2.800,- plus courier costs
€ 2.000,- (unframed) plus € 32,- Track & Trace EU registered mail in cardboard tube
Sometimes a print reflects light more than the light it reflects…. This work of Olivier Mosset is one of these works that vibrates brilliantly, due to its colour combinations.
STEVEN PARRINO, untitled, 1993 [Iggy Pop]
25 x 16,2 cm
photo copy / collage
uncut invite, verso: duct tape, artist’s name ink stamped
edition 10
GALERIE VAN GELDER EDITION
published by Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
€ 960,- + € 18,- registered EU mail
Steven Parrino was known for having a preference for black, i.e. black cloths, black sunglasses, black paint on canvas, black noise, black duct tape (although he preferred to wrap his crumpled canvasses in silver coloured duct tape). Vintage cars, Harley Davidson motorbikes and Chevrolet motor blocks were also among his favorites to use in his art. The shortening “SS” for Super Sport is a signature performance option package offered by Chevrolet on a limited number of its vehicles. All SS models come with distinctive “SS” markings on their exterior. The SS package was first made available for the 1961 Impala. Here Steven Parrino combined a motor block with a mooning Iggy Pop (?) in black and white on an uncut invitation card. For the occasion of his show an improvised edition was issued.
HENNING CHRISTIANSEN, Klavier – to jump, 1966
27,8 x 20,8 cm
offset, stiff board
verso name ‘Christiansen’ ink stamped
part of issue No.5 “Happenings-Stücke-Partituren”, Jan.1966, published by Dé-coll/age – Bulletin Aktueller Ideen [editor Wolf Vostell], Verlag Köln, West-Germany
edition 500
€ 165,- + € 15,- Track & trace registered EU mail
inv.HChr 000-pr
Verso ink stamp with grease stained residue of chocolate bar multiple by Joseph Beuys.
A.R. PENCK, Bananenelephant, 1992
130 x 245 cm
screen print, with Galerie Aschenbach ink stamp
edition 50
signed, numbered
published by Aschenbach Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
not available anymore
A.R. Penck is known for expressionistic paintings with primitive sign gestures spread all over the surface in a fragmented manner. For decades he has made quite some prints in various techniques. ‘Bananenelephant’ is one of the most remarkable large prints A.R. Penck has ever made.
History of prices:
Venduehuis, The Hague, November 2022 € 5.200,- (hammer price)
Dorotheum, Vienna, Austria € 10.240,- 2 June 2022 (incl. premium)
Strauss & Co, Cape Town, South Africa € 3.026,- July 2018 (incl. premium)
Galerie Zimmermann & Heitmann, Düsseldorf, Germany, unframed € 6.900,- December 2012
Aschenbach Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands, unframed fl. 4.000-€ 1.820,- May 1992 (year of issue)
SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, With landscape, 1987
29,5 x 37,5 cm (24,5 x 32,5)
etching, aquatint
signed, dated, numbered
edition 100
published by Bifrons Publisher, Amsterdam
KEN LUM, I Can’t Believe I’m in Paris, 1995-2011
54,6 cm x 68,6 cm
ink on water colour paper
edition 100
published by artist/Vancouver Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
€ 520,-
not available
This work is from a series of repeated text portraits that Ken Lum began to pursue in the 1990s. Lum works in a variety of media, including sculptures made from rented furniture, photographic portraits combined with faux corporate logos and texts, mazes made of mirrors inscribed with text, and works that mimic the signage affiliated with working class mini-malls.
KEN LUM, I Can’t Believe I’m in Paris, 1995-2011
104,1 x 134,6 cm
ink on water colour paper
edition 5
published by artist and Vancouver Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
not available
History of prices:
Vancouver Gallery, Vancouver, Canada € 305,-/ $ 400.- February 2011 (edition 100)
Vancouver Gallery, Vancouver, Canada € 3.400,- / US$ 4,500.- February 2011 (edition 5)
