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LAWRENCE WEINER, À fripon fripon et demi, [2004] – multiple

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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
€ 285,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
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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

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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.

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OLAFUR ELIASSON, Eye, 2004

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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
extremely rare due to mis-production
published by SLF / The Benefit Society for Children with Disabilities, Reykjadalur, Iceland
€ 780,- 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.


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JOHN BOCK, Meech elasticity, 2004 [signed]

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JOHN BOCK, Meech elasticity, 2004
21 x 15 cm
artist’s book with pop up in center, 92 pp.
edition unknown, 30 copies
1st edition
signed, numbered
mint
published by CCA, Kitakyushu, Japan
€ 150,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.JBoc 000-pr
Margin scheme

A collage of a pictorial diary with reproduced handwritten statements in Germanish English with collages of personal as well as found photos and printed matter. The cover “Bänsch – Kauferverhalten – 4. Auflage” is such an example of found printed matter. Colophon in English and Japanese.

History of prices:
The Land of Nod, Ostend, Belgium € 95,- (unsigned)
Paule Lean Bisson-Millet, Beilstein, Germany January 2025 € 50,- (unsigned)
Buchhandlung Wien/Lukatsch, Berlin, Germany May 2013 € 75,- (unsigned)