ROBERT FILLIOU, Standard-book / Livre-Etalon, n.d. [1982]
folded: 4 x 4 cm, unfolded: 4 x 80 cm
edition 1000
mint
published by Dieter Roth, Stuttgart 1982
€ 285,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered mail, margin scheme
inv.RFil 000-pr
“All literature – past, present and future – can be objectively evaluated at last, thanks to the STANDARD-BOOK which alone ensures the faultless measurement and impartial assessment of printed matter(s).”
History of prices:
Sim Reeds Ltd, London, UK € 594,- May 2024
HundertmarkArtFair, San Agustin, Gran Canaria, Spain € 380,- May 2024
SpainThe Archive is Limited, Amsterdam, € 220,- March 2023
Nosbüsch & Stücke Auktionen, Berlin, Germany US$ 260.- 20 May 2022
Boekie Woekie, Amsterdam € 65,- March 2022
Boekie Woekie, Amsterdam € 75,- November 2014
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.
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].
JOSEPH BEUYS, Diebstahl, n.d. [between 1974-1977]
2 individual prints, recto and verso
each print 29,8 x 21 cm, here framed: 40 x 51,5 cm
limited edition, i.e. less than 500
both signed
published by Edition Klaus Staeck, Heidelberg, Germany
€ 685,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace registered Eu mail
inv.JBeu 000
Ref. https://www.edition-staeck.de/produkt/joseph-beuys-diebstahl/
Here, two prints – recto and verso – have been framed out of the edition of less than 500 signed copies.
Announcement on flyer reads: “Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Verwaltung der Kunstmuseen.
D i e b s t a h l.
Am Sonntag, den 9. Juni 1974 sind zwei Beuys-Zeichnungen aus unsere Ausstellung gestohlen worden. Bitte setzen Sie sich mit uns oder mit der Kriminalpolizei in Verbindung, falls Ihnen die Zeichnungen angeboten werden.”
English translation:
‘Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Administration of the Art Museums.
T h e f t.
On Sunday, June 9th 1974, two Beuys drawings were stolen from our exhibition.
Please contact us or the Criminal Investigation Department in case these drawings are offered to you.’
History of price:
Catawiki, Assen, Netherlands 30 January 2025 € 272,- (hammer price, single print)
AaG Auktionshaus am Grunewald GmbH, Berlin, Germany 7 December 2024 € 360,- (hammer price, single print, unframed)
KRISTJAN GUDMUNDSSON, Cause and Consequence, 1976
23 x 17 x 2 cm, 3 parts
Tipp-Ex correction paper on coloured paper, original framing
edition 10
published by the artist, Amsterdam
Kristján Gudmundsson likes to see ‘the snake biting in its tail’ one could say. He is fascinated by closed logics after a simple work concept has been set. In Cause and Consequence (1976) he divided a square in three equal parts by drawing two horizontal lines. Then he decided to draw one line vertically, resulting in a correction paper transfer of six equal parts. In this first stage the effect is two lines and one broken line. On the second and third sheet of paper he did the same, yet in a different order. As a consequence the visual effect varies. Within the parameters of the concept all possible variations come to an end. KvG
In 1977 this work was for the first time shown in ‘Ça va, ça va’ in Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France. Three Icelandic artists Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Kristján Gudmundsson and his brother Sigurdur Gudmundsson showed together their works in ‘Les Galeries’ on the ground floor of the museum.
KRISTJAN GUDMUNDSSON, Once around the sun; Volume I and II, 1975
each 26,3 x 26,7 x 6 cm
offset, SC, book object, 2 volumes hand bound by the artist, 1st edition only ca 6-8 copies came into production signed, numbered / extremely rare
published by Silver Press, Reykjavik / Amsterdam
Collection Kees van Gelder, Amsterdam
€ 10.000,- plus courier costs, Margin Scheme
inv.KG 000-pr
This edition consists of two volumes that is hand bound (Lümbeck method) by Kristján Gudmundsson while he was living in Daniel Stalpertstraat, Amsterdam during the seventies. One book object contains parallel horizontal lines on each page. The second volume contains hundreds of full stops on each page. Both books are three times thicker than the reprinted version by Ottenhausen Verlag in 1982. The front page states that each line is equal to seconds, id est all lines together represent the total amount of 29,771 meters it takes for the earth to once orbit around the sun; equal to one year.
In 1976 the artist made volume II making use of the notion ‘time’ using dots instead of lines to visualize the length of the orbit around the sun. The front page states that each point is equal to a second. All points together represent the amount of seconds it takes for the earth to once orbit around the sun.
The production of this self published book by Silver Press – owned by the artist – was very laborious and definitely no more than 6 – 8 copies were made, i.e. oppositie to the hand bound and ‘1st edition of 50 copies’ that is mentioned on the website of bookshop Boekie Woekie. In the seventies, on a regular basis I visited Kristjan’s house in Daniel Stalpertstraat in Amsterdam being confronted with how slowly the production of these copies were made.
In 1982 Ottenhausen Verlag in Aachen / Munich, Germany, took over the project and published 100 copies which were remarkably less voluminous than the original book object hand made by the artist. With the reprint the width of the spine of each volume is shrunken to almost half of its size, making the work less sculptural than the original.
Deutsche Sprache
Volumen I: Den Zeitraum, den der Planet Erde zur Umrundung der Sonne benötigt, nennt man ein Jahr. Das Kalenderjahr (tropisches Jahr) hat 365 Tage 5 Stunden 48 Minuten und 45,98 Sekunden = 31 556 926 Sekunden.Jeder Punkt in Band I entspricht einer Sekunde. Volumen II: Die Wegstrecke, die der Planet Erde in einer Sekunde zurücklegt, beträgt 29 771 Meter (Mittelwert). Die Linien in Band II entsprechen in ihrer Gesamtlänge dieser Wegstrecke.
2 Bände (724/720 Seiten)
This book is a by Kristjan Gudmundsson hand made object while he was living in Daniel Stalpertstraat, Amsterdam during the seventies. The book object contains hundreds of full stops on each page and is three times thicker than the reprinted version by Ottenhausen Verlag in 1982. The front page states that each point is equal to a second. All points together represent the amount of seconds it takes for the earth to once orbit around the sun. In 1976 the artist made volume II making use of the notion ‘space’ using lines instead of full stops to visualize the orbit of the earth around the sun in length.
Additional information
KRISTJAN GUDMUNDSSON, Once around the sun, 1982
each 27,6 x 27 x 3,5 cm
offset, two books in slipcase not signed, not numbered (as published)
edition 100
SC, book, 2nd ed.
published by Ottenhausen Verlag, Aachen / München 1982
History of prices:
Antiquariat Uebue, Zurich, Switzerland GBP 3.342,55 July 2025 – 2nd edition, unsigned as issued
Boekie Woekie Amsterdam € 4.000,00 March 2024 (2nd edition, set with water damage ‘…quite badly stained’)
Antiquariat Uebue, Zurich, Switzerland, December 2024 € 4.217,56 – 2nd edition, unsigned as issued
Antiquariat Uebue, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2022 US$ 4,101.88 – 2nd edition, unsigned as issued
Boekie Woekie Amsterdam € 4.000,00 February 2022 (2nd edition, set with water damage)
Boekie Woekie, Amsterdam € 1.600,00 November 2012 – 2nd edition, unsigned as issued
PIETER LAURENS MOL, This paper is yours, this is mine, 1974
43 x 29,5 cm / 30 x 4,2 cm (diameter)
punched sheet of thin paper (40 gr/m2), cardboard tube, printed texts in letterpress
edition unknown
published by the artist
condition: aged paper and cardboard, small crumpling on vertical edges
not available anymore
In the early seventies Pieter Laurens Mol was an outspoken protagonist of Concrete Poetry. Twisted Dutch sayings like ‘De vloer met jezelf aanvegen’ [meaning: instead of walk over someone… walking over oneself] were visualized into a print or photo. Or the six letters of the word POETRY were cast in concrete and hold together by a rope.
KRISTJAN GUDMUNDSSON, Orsök og Afleiðing [Cause and Consequence], 1974
32,5 x 33,3 cm (12,5 x 21,5)
Tipp-Ex correction paper on coloured paper, original frame vintage edition
edition 10, here number 1/10
numbered, dated and framed behind acrylic glass by the artist in 1974 personal signature: Til Þoru og Kees, frá Kidda og Mísu’
published by the artist, Amsterdam
p.o.r., Margin Scheme
In the seventies corrections on the typemachine could be made with the help of prefabricated paper correction strips of Tipp-Ex. Kristján Gudmundsson used these strips couvered with a film of chalk to make drawings. He told me that he was intrigued by the fact that the result of the zigzagging lines he drew could not be detected on the strip from which he drew the lines with a ruler. He said: ‘The strip doesn’t have any memory of how they were drawn’, i.e. on the coloured paper in both a parallel and diagonal way, as shown above. Hence the title.
This copy is the very first one out of an edition of ten. As soon as the first one was ready and framed it was given to us as a gift in Daniel Stalpertstraat in Amsterdam, a place we frequently visited in the early seventies. KvG
History of price:
Galleri i8, Reyjavík, Iceland November 2021 € 3.800,- (edition behind acrylic glass frame)
JOSEPH BEUYS, Holzpostkarte, n.d. [1974]
10,2 x 14,9 x 3,3 cm
screen print, wood
signed
edition 600
published by Edition Staeck, Heidelberg, Germany
€ 580,- plus € 13,- costs Track&Trace
inv.JBeuys 283
History of prices:
eBay-Bruckners, Neudorf, Austria December 2024 € 604,60 (make offer)
Tim Byers, Richmond, UK 26 January 2021 GBP 400.-
Van Ham Kunstauktionen, Cologne, Germany 1 June 2016 € 323,-
JOSEPH BEUYS, Holzpostkarte, n.d. [1974]
10,2 x 14,9 x 3,3 cm
screen print, wood
signed
verso ink stamped F.I.U. / Free International University
edition 600
published by Edition Staeck, Heidelberg, Germany
€ 480,- plus € 13,- costs Track & Trace
