WIM T. SCHIPPERS, Going to the Dogs, 1986
size box: 1,5 x 14 x 3,2 cm
tea spoon, screen print on plastic display box
edition unknown
published by Stichting Going to the Dogs, Amsterdam
This is a souvenir issued on behalf of a Fluxus performance by Wim T. Schippers at the Stadsschouwburg, Amsterdam. His play ‘Going to the Dogs’ was performed by six German shepherd dogs. See the booklet that was issued and on sale at no more than 3 performances.
Ref. Going to the Dogs, 1986
screen print on plastic box – verso:
GÁBOR TÓTH, 1970 – 1980
[mail art from the seventies]
various sizes
printed matter
editions of these items are unknown
splendid condition, slightly aged
rare as set
sold
Hungarian artist Gábor Tóth (1950) makes use of language that meanders between art and non-art, between humor and critical statements. His works are always tiny and ephemeral. Due to that these are not really suitable for a serious art market. Yet they deserve a serious position in the Fluxus art movement of the seventies.
Gábor Tóth’s work realized prices ranging from US$ 133 to US$ 1,211. In 2017 the record price for this artist at auction was set at US$ 1,211.- [sic].
BENGT LINDSTRÖM, Untitled I, n.d. [1980]
75 x 96 cm
aquatint etching
signed, numbered
Bengt Lindström’s work is full of monstrous personages with frightening faces. Although the artist had a heavy fauvist colour palette
in this aquatint colours clearly don’t play a role, while the scary part stayed. In spite of the lack of colour this black-and-white print is much more expressionistic than the coloured version shown below.
BENGT LINDSTRÖM, Untitled I, n.d. [1980]
89,3 x 72,6 cm
color etching, aquatint with carborundum,
edition 90
signed, numbered
MAN RAY, Self Portrait, ca 1980
15 x 10 cm / 4″ x 6″
postcard
edition unknown
for sale in combination with Man Ray Self-portrait, i.e. extremely rare poster as sculpture in print
Self portrait photographed in 1943 by Man Ray. In his fifties Man Ray shaved half his face for the above self-portrait. Francis Naumann has suggested that this act may have referred to Man Ray’s duel identity as an American artist with strong ties in Europe. Man Ray was living in Hollywood at the time he took the photograph (1942), and would return with his wife Juliet to Paris in 1951 to spent the rest of his life in the capital.
DOROTHY IANNONE, Dorothy Iannone and her mother Sarah Pucci, 1980
8 parts with ca 50 sheets of paper, portfolio
signed and hand-coloured cover
published by Neue Galerie Stadt Aachen, Aachen, Germany
Portfolio with different magazines, sheets and printed matter. Complete set. Some copies have been additionally signed and handcoloured on cover by the artist.
