MARLENE DUMAS
Lucy, 2005
lithograph,
edition 25
signed, dated + catalogue signed by both artists
+ MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM
Luciaaaa!, 2005
lithograph, gold leaf
edition 25
signed, dated + catalogue signed by both artists
published by Walther Koenig Buchhandlung, Cologne, Germany
rare, pristine
sold
Photo: K. van Gelder, Amsterdam
linen covered cardboard triptych box
edition number 1/25
Caravaggio’s painting Sepulture of Santa Lucia, which hangs in the Regional Museum of Palazzo Bellomo in Syracuse, prompted Marlene Dumas and Marijke van Warmerdam to make works on the legend of martyr Santa Lucia. Both ‘Lucia’ of Dumas and ‘Luciaaaa!’ of Van Warmerdam is a reproduction in high quality print of one of the works they made for their duo exhibition ‘Con vista al celestiale’ in Syracuse.
Marijke van Warmerdam thought that Lucia’s calling to God and God’s calling to Lucia could best be expressed with the aid of a Jacob’s ladder. She says: ‘A Jacob’s ladder descends from heaven and God calls: “Luciaaaa!” I placed her name in gold letters upside-down on the print, actually as seen through the eyes of God.’
Photo: K. van Gelder, Amsterdam
History of prices:
Sotheby’s, Amsterdam € 5.040,- / $ 6,795.- (incl. premium) 23 May 2007
Phillips, New York $ 3,750.- 1 December 2007
CHRISTIAN JANKOWSKI, Überhappy, 2005
DVD, 2’28” min.
composition “Überhappy (1)” by Chiel Meijering
2nd film by counterpart advertising company DDB, Berlin and Chief Creative Officer Amir Kassaei
booklet, 12 pp., English text by Paul Groot
one time limited edition 800
published by the Bifrons Foundation, Amsterdam
menu for both loop and single play
€ 180,-
Basically Christian Jankowski is collaborative in nature and his works are based on interactions with non-artworld counterparts, including bankers, weight-lifting champions, cleaning companies, porn studios, horror film producers and in this case director/founder Thora Johansen of the Bifrons Foundation in Amsterdam. Often incorporating chance, accident, and spur of the moment decisions lead to the finished artwork, Jankowski never fulfils a brief as expected, identifying contemporary phenomena that interest him and inverting their meaning.
In the case of Überhappy Christian Jankowski asked both director and harpsichordist Thora Johansen to let herself musically involved and to dance in her studio which she co-operatively did. Question is whether this is painful for her or the artist. Or both…..
FRANZ WEST, Gesammelte Gespräche und Interviews, 2005
4to., 180 pp.
book, transparent envelope with 240 images of portraits
signed, numbered
special edition 50 + 5 AP
published by Walther Koenig, Cologne, Germany
not available anymore
All persons mentioned in this artist’s book are represented with their portraits taken from internet. Empty pages give the owner the possibility to glue the portraits within given frames inside the book without asking the persons involved for permission to be “published” in the book.
“Dieses Buch hat auch die Note des Interaktiven, das bei mir ja das tragende Element war. Der Inhaber kann die markierten Stellen mit den entsprechenden Photos – diese können zum Beispiel aus dem Internet oder aus Zeitungen sein – vervollständigen.” Franz West
LAWRENCE WEINER, À fripon fripon et demi, n.d. [ca 2004]
74 cm / 7 x 4,5 cm
aluminum dogtag, chain, printed envelope (5 x 3 cm)
edition 300
mint rare
€ 385,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
Collection Lambert opened its doors in June 2000 during the celebrations for ‘Avignon – European Cultural Capital’. With a view to making a future donation, gallerist and collector Yvon Lambert decided to place on loan 350 artworks. Housed in an 18th century mansion, these works are borrowed from his personal collection that at this stage comprises more than 1200 artworks dating from the 1960s to the present day. The event ‘À fripon fripon et demi’ (English translation: ‘How to catch a thief with a thief’) focused on children and their art, with a new room in the museum specially devoted to their work. For the occasion, the Collection Lambert looked back over four years of educational initiatives with projects by On Kawara, Claude Lévêque and Joey Kötting.
YANN SÉRANDOUR, [Supplement] – A Needle In A Haystack, 2004
24 x 17 cm / 23,9 x 16,8 cm
diptych card / printed inlay, offset
edition 50, neither numbered, nor signed as issued
This work comes with a catalogue raisonné “Specific & General Works” (1993) of Lawrence Weiner, of which Sérandour’s supplement is a derived version.
The price shown on the back of the book of Lawrence Weiner was 369 French francs, equal to 54,88 euros. Yann Sérandour seems to have said about the selling price of his supplement: ‘Les comptes ronds faisant les bons amis’ (i.e. “Precision in money affairs keeps friendship’), explaining the very precise price of 45,12 euros printed on the back of the diptych.
OLAFUR ELIASSON, Eye, 2004
8 x 8 x 8 cm
glass, red ribbon with text, booklets, cardboard box
Glass blown eye ball as Christmas ball, in original silver coloured box with two small booklets in English and Icelandic
signed in print on object
limited edition
published by SLF / The Benefit Society for Children with Disabilities, Reykjadalur, Iceland
€ 680,- plus € 24,- Track & trace registered EU mail
inv.OEli 1172
An ephemeral image as a kind of mirage is seen when one looks straight into the balls eye. A black and white printed iris is reflected in the mirror at the rear of the glass ball. As a miniaturized image the spiral iris construction is ingeniously appearing with an illusionistic result! Due to a complicated production technique a large part of the limited edition was mis-produced and destroyed, hence more than rare.
OLIVIER MOSSET, Untitled, 2004
set of 4 lithos, each 50 x 50 cm
edition 30
signed, dated, numbered
published by Atelier Raynald Métraux, Lausanne, Switzerland
OLIVIER MOSSET, Untitled, 2004
set of 4 lithos, each 50 x 65 cm
edition 30
signed, dated, numbered
published by Atelier Raynald Métraux, Lausanne, Switzerland SFr 4.000.- February 2013
MONICA BONVICINI, Untitled, 2004
18,5 x 5,5 x 1,2 cm – box: 19,5 x 19,5 x 3,5 cm
metal pliers, rubber, wooden holder in cardboard box
signed, numbered
edition 9
not available
