untitled, 1988
200 x 300 cm
polyester flag
edition of 10
Published by Gran Pavese, The Hague (?), Netherlands
John M Armleder has worked for more than thirty years, starting off in the 1960s as a performance artist in the Fluxus inspired Geneva group Ecart (trans. French for ‘diversion’). Rather than work out of a studio, he travels, using galleries as studio spaces, working up shows in response to particular spaces, opportunities, possibilities. Here a flag of dots was made for a flag project in The Netherlands in 1988.
‘Furniture Sculpture 193, Caprice’, 1988
Ø 25,4 cm
engraving on bowling ball Caprice by Columbia, vinyl bag
edition 24
not signed, unnumbered
comes with vintage label hand written by JMA and used at Art Basel Edition 1992
€ 3.000,- plus € 32,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.JMA 994-label
ROB SCHOLTE, Mens erger je niet! / Ne l’en fais pas!, 1988
300 x 200 cm
hand knotted carpet with white tassels
signed, numbered and dated on linen cloth
edition 15
mint
published by Equador Production, Brussels, Belgium
€ 9.500,-
inv.RSchol 394-pr
history
Installation of this carpet (version with black tassels) at Ranbir Singh/Petra Grunert’s home in Brussels, Belgium, in 1990
DAVID ROBILLIARD, Old Flames are Dead Matches, 1987
4 x 5,6 x 0,6 cm
matchbox, matches with coloured heads
signed and dated in print
edition unknown
published by Friedman-Guinness Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
mint condition
rare
each € 195,- plus € 15,- registered mail Trace & Track
inv.DRob 1160_1161-pr
David Robilliard (1952-1988) was a self-taught painter and poet. He shared a studio with Andrew Heard and met Gilbert & George in 1979 who called him their favourite poet. Later on he became one of their models and appeared as the angry young man in the film “The World of Gilbert & George” made in 1981. His poetical one-liners were super fluently present in his paintings and his poetry was performed frequently by the group The Robilliards, Stephen Chamberlain, and Mental Mary who put Robilliard’ s texts into songs.
‘Cercle et Carré’, 1987
196 x 30 x 39 cm lamp, metal grid, (original) wooden base
edition 18
signed, numbered, dated, certificate
published by Galerie Anselm Dreher, Berlin, Germany
€ 7.500,-
John M Armleder once said (in the eighties) that the work he makes is similar to making B-movies. Here one could conclude that ‘Circle et Carré’ looks very much like the work of a designer. Indeed the lamp is truely a design, but the image with metal grid on the wall is not and just a remarkable addition of the artist.
LAWRENCE WEINER, Ab ovo usque ad mala, 1987
diameter dinner plate: 26,5 cm
porcelain dinnerware, 4 parts hand signed on certificate, numbered and also signature baked in porcelain
edition 250 + 10 AP + 5 HC
pristine
published by Fodor Museum, Amsterdam
€ 680,-plus € 32 Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.LW 000-pr
‘Ab ovo’ (Latin: “from the origin, the egg”) is a reference to one of the twin eggs from which Helen of Troy was born. The eggs were laid by Leda after mating with Zeus disguised as a swan. As a metaphor the words refer to the beginning of something ominous; had Leda not lain the egg, Helen would not have been born, so Paris could not have eloped with her, so there would have been no Trojan War. This expression is distinct from the longer phrase ‘ab ovo usque ad mala’ (Latin: “from the egg to the apples”) which appears in Horace’s Satire 1.3. It refers to the course of a Roman meal, which often began with eggs and ended with fruit. Here obviously Lawrence Weiner understood the Latin phrase as the similar American English phrase ‘from soup to nuts’.
CESARE DA SESTO, Leda and the Swan, ca 1506-1510
In ‘Leda and the Swan’ Helen’s birth is depicted, painted after a lost painting by Leonardo da Vinci. Helen and Clytemnestra are shown emerging from one egg, Castor and Pollux from another.
KEITH HARING, Untitled, n.d. [ca 1986]
10,3 x 10,3 x 4 cm
offset on 100 jig saw pieces, cardboard box
edition unknown
condition: splendid, not signed
published by Pop Shop, New York, USA
provenance Pop Shop, New York in 1986 rare
inv.KHar 000-pr
Added information
Item shown below was sold at Roseberys London Fine Art Auctioneers 7 July 2020:
TAKAKO SAITO, Ein Buch des Mikadobuchs, 1986
12,5 x 15,5 x 1,7 cm
unique series of 20
book and tooth pick in wooden box
not available; ask for details
The whole edition of ‘Ein Buch des Mikadobuchs’ forms a stack of paper sheets. Out of these asymmitrical cut outs 20 stabbed book blocks have been made, each ca 9 x 8 cm in size. The white silk paper pages are bound with a hand coloured cut off Mikado pin, to which a loose hand coloured tooth pick has been added. There is an original pencil drawing on top of each wooden box showing in red colour pencil the part, bound as book, of this Mikado puzzle book.
GERHARD RICHTER, Spiegel, 1986
21 x 29,8 cm
mirror glass on cork plate
edition 100 + XVII
signed, numbered, dated
published by Jahresgabe des Kunstvereins für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
sold
History of prices:
Artax Kunsthandel, Düsseldorf, Germany € 1.800,- October 2005
Mo-Art Gallery, Amsterdam € 2.400,- November 2005
Van Ham Auktionen, Cologne, Germany € 2.375,- June 2012 at auction 311 – Lot 856
KEITH HARING, Untitled, ca 1986
50 x 37 x 12 cm
print on plastic transparent bag
edition unknown
pristine; very rare
published by Pop Shop, New York, USA
