RAÚL MARROQUIN, Marroquin Font, 1991
31,5 x 21,5 x 3,2 cm
screen print on sheets of acetate, cardboard box
signed and numbered on certificate, text in screen print on box
ca 1.3 kgs
edition 20
splendid condition
published by Zeger Reijers’ Multiples, Rotterdam, Netherlands
€ 1.200,- plus costs registered mail
Raúl Marroquin is known for undermining existing structures whether in video art, pop music (with his would-be pop band The Sets) or high-tech stream systems. In 1991 he introduced a new type font and in 1998 his letter innovation was bought by Adobe and integrated in their official typefaces. Later on also Apple Inc. included his font in their standard letter faces.
Although the name “Marroquin Font” on the cover of the box suggests the official title, it differs from the name printed on the accompanying and signed certificate. There the multiple is called “Marroquin Roman” referring to the typeface he designed in 1991 as a playful challenge to his friends who would never think of having their names connected to a typographic font. Traditionally a Roman font is provided with serifs, but Marroquin decided to have his without.
RICHARD PRINCE, Skull Bunny shopping bag, 1991
50 x 28 x 8 cm
offset on stiff paper bag
limited edition
published during Art Basel 1991 by Printed Matter, New York, USA and Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada
text ‘Learn to read Art’ by Lawrence Weiner, bag printed by Imschoot, Uitgevers
condition: used
€ 620,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.RPri 000
This paper bag by Richard Prince was produced for supporting Art Metropole at Art Basel 1991. For the sake of supporting Art Metropole Richard Prince signed 29 bags.
History of prices:
DR Fine Arts, New York, USA 18 October US$ 1,600.-
Artware, Berlin, Germany 18 October 2024 US$ 1,500.-
eBay-Fine Art LA Store, Los Angeles, USA 18 October 2024 US$ 2,000 (make offer)
Nosbüsch & Stucke, Berlin, Germany 13 May 2023 € 330,- (hammer price)
eBay-lakersla8, Los Angeles, USA, October 2022 US$ 2,000.- (make offer)
eBay-banksysells, New York, USA, December 2021 US$ 1,500.- (make offer)
Global Galleries, non-profit platform 18 July 2019 € 1.100,-
Artcurial SVV, Paris, France 16 May 2018 € 1.950,- (unsigned)
Nosbüsh & Stucke, Berlin, Germany 13 May 2023 € 330,- (hammer price)
eBay-artplus, New York, USA, December 2022 US$ 700.-
Zwiggelaar Auctions, Amsterdam June 24 2022 € 400,- (hammer price)
Printed Matter, New York, USA July 2021 US$ 500.-
eBay/moplen2003, 13 January 2021 € 650,-
Paddle auction, 16 July 2014 US$ 1,700.-
Art Metropole, Toronto and in booth at Art Basel 1991 SFr 150.- (in year of issue)
HREINN FRIDFINNSSON, Fragment of Remembrance, 1990
ca 48 x 72 cm / ca 19 x 28 inches (sizes may differ from each other)
iron, silver foiled cristals, 13 parts in wooden box with sticker
edition 12
signed, numbered on certificate
published by Galerie van Gelder Editions, Amsterdam rare
€ 6.500,- plus € 32,- Track & Trace registered mail
Margin Scheme
‘Fragment of Remembrance’ refers to memories of his youth and is partly made of a rolled up iron sheep fence used in the countryside of Iceland to keep sheep together close to the farm, when they are not taken to the mountains for grazing. Born in 1943 in Baer Dölum, Iceland, Hreinn Fridfinnsson employs media that are remarkably varied in scale and substance, from photography, drawings and tracings to presentations and installations of sound, texts and ready-mades. As in this edition Fridfinnnsson often presents found objects with which he interferes as little as possible, creating new works that investigate ideas of the self and of time. He has said that: ‘Notions of time are always compelling. The feeling and the interest in the essence of time is serious, but my dealing with time is not knowledge-based; it is more exploratory and feeling-based.’
GENERAL IDEA, Aids-Amsterdam Tram Project, 1990
62,5 x 63,7 cm
screen print on sticker
handwritten title: Amsterdam Tram Project edition 40, nr 2/40
signed, numbered and dated in black ink
exclusively made for and published by Museum Fodor, Amsterdam
very rare in this mint condition
sold
More than three decades ago in 1990 trams in Amsterdam were covered with this very early AIDS silkscreen poster of General Idea. The ‘Amsterdam Tram Project’ became quite controversial, i.e. conductors refused to drive their trams covered with the colourful and marked stickers afraid of giving their support to or at least being compromised and associated with homosexuality. Later on the artists group had other versions produced in larger editions.
In the mid-1980’s, the Canadian art group General Idea – AA Bronson, Felix Partz, and Jorge Zontal – created a symbol using the acronym AIDS, using the letters in a manner that resembled Robert Indiana’s LOVE logo. This witty allusion became part of Imagevirus, a project of paintings, sculptures, videos, posters, wallpapers and exhibitions that investigated the term AIDS as both word and image, using the mechanism of viral transmission. Imagevirus spread like a visual virus, producing an image epidemic in urban spaces from Manhattan to Sydney. It was displayed as, among other things, a Spectacolor sign in Times Square, a sculpture on a street in Hamburg, and a poster in the New York subway system. General Idea felt compelled to make Imagevirus at a time when AIDS was emerging as a global epidemic affecting gay men disproportionately.
Museum Fodor Amsterdam issued the posters in a signed and numbered edition. Beautiful and witty allusion of Robert Indiana’s famous LOVE icon.
MARIEN SCHOUTEN, untitled 1986
diameter dinner plate: 26,5 cm, hand painted on porcelain cup, saucer, breakfast and dinner plate
edition 250 + 10 AP + 5 HC, here number 242
signed in print underneath dinner plate, hand signed on certificate
published by Kamer van Koophandel / Museum Fodor, Amsterdam
mint condition
€ 360,- plus € 32,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.MSch 1000_1005
Also available:
Dinner-service, 1986-1990
Erik Andriesse, Rob Birza, Marlene Dumas, Kees de Goede, Rob van Koningsbruggen, Marien Schouten, Han Schuil, Jan Sierhuis, Peter Struycken, Toon Verhoef, Co Westerik and Lawrence Weiner.
size dinner plates: 26,5 cm diameter
set of 12 transfer printed and glazed ceramics
all dinner plates signed underneath, each ceramic set comes with signed and numbered certificate
edition of 250 + 15 AP
published by Fodor Museum, Amsterdam and produced by Royal Mosa, Maastricht, Netherlands
mint condition
complete set € 2.800,- + FedEx courier costs
LAWRENCE WEINER, Learn to read art, cut-out bookmark, 1990
17,8 x 5,1 cm
offset on colored stiff paper [here shown recto and verso]
dated in print
published by Printed Matter bookstore at DIA Foundation, New York, USA
RICHARD ARTSCHWAGER, Bookends, 1990
17 x 16.5 x 10 cm
formica on wood, metal, 2 parts
edition 50, signed, numbered
published by Brooke Alexander Editions for Printed Matter, Inc., New York, USA
not available
The two bookends may be put on their side as a stack that turns them into a sculpture. Or as Richard Artschwager stated in an interview: “You want sculpture, you got sculpture”.
BARBARA KRUGER, I shop therefore I am, 1990
43,9 x 27,3 x 10,7 cm / 16 1/2 x 11 inches
edition 9000
offset in black and red, paper shopping bag
published by Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany, 1990
excellent and close to mint condition
€ 1.000,- plus € 24,- registered mail Track & Trace
inv. BKru 000-pr
History of prices:
Bartlett Auctions Inc., Canada November 2025 € 983 (hammer price)
MLTPL, Hamburg, Germany January 2025 € 2.000
Artsy-MLTPL, Hamburg, Germany February 2024 € 2.200 (Make an offer)
Leslie Hindman Inc., Chicago, USA 19 July 2021 € 2.103 (hammer price)
Caviar20, Toronto, Canada 18 April 2021 € 1.794
Caviar20, Toronto, Canada 2 July 2020 CAD$ 1,950.- (€ 1.275,-)
Artcurial, Paris 16 May 2018 € 3.250
D. & E. Lake Ltd., Toronto, Canada 22 December 2017 US$ 770.-
Galerie & Antiquariat Gerhard Zähringer, Zürich, Switzerland 12 September 2017 US$ 415,-
Artnet.com / Deborah Ripley estimate: 28 August 2012 US$ 700-800.-
Harlowe-Powell Auction Gallery 15 October 2011 US$ 500.-
LAWRENCE WEINER, Stars don’t stand still in the sky, 1990
27,7 x 22 x 2 cm / 10 6/8 x 8 5/8 x 1/16 inches
enamel on metal
edition 60
published by Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, USA
not available
A.R. PENCK, I am ar. penck, 1989 – English version
30 cm x 38 cm
leporello, screenprint
size unfolded 30 x 453,5 cm
edition 100 + 20 AP
signed, numbered
published by Aschenbach Gallery, Amsterdam mint, uncommon in this impeccable condition
€ 500,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.APen 157-pr
leporello verso:
History of prices:
Bromer Booksellers, Boston, USA – (English version) US$ 1,045.- August 2022 (poor condition)
Ketterer Rare Books, Hamburg, Germany € 240,- 22 November 2016 (condition unknown)
Versandantiquariat Elke Rehder, Barsbüttel, Germany – (German version) € 480,- October 2012
Added information:
Artist’s book “I am ar. penck” was also issued in a German version.
A.R. PENCK, I am ar. penck, 1989 – German version
30 cm x 38 cm
screenprint
size unfolded 30 x 453,5 cm
edition 100 + 20 AP
signed, numbered
published by Aschenbach Gallery, Amsterdam
inv.MSch 1000_1005
