Mechanical Reproduction, 1994
14,8 x 10,5 cm
artists: HENRY BOND & LIAM GILLICK, SYLVIE FLEURY, RICHARD HAWKINS, ARNOLD MOSSELMAN and WOLFGANG TILLMANS
17 machine produced photos, 2 pages with text, transparant celluloid cover, 20 pp.
hand numbered
edition 50 extremely rare
published by Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
€ 1.500,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered mail
Published on behalf of exhibition ‘Een goed in de weg staande tafel’ / “A table absolutely standing in the way” in Galerie van Gelder in 1994, curator Jack Jaeger.
SYLVIE FLEURY
no title, 1993
100,5 x 70,5 cm
edition 200 of which 100 are signed, numbered and dated
published by Galerie van Gelder Editions, Amsterdam, Netherlands
mint
€ 300,- plus € 18,- registered mail
Galerie van Gelder Editions invites artists to come up with an idea for wrapping paper to be used in the gallery for wrapping sold art works.
History of prices:
Kunstauktionshaus Schloss Ahlden, Ahlden, Germany € 500,- 28 November 2020 (hammer price)
Galerie van Gelder Editions, Amsterdam, Netherlands € 95,- / Dfl. 200,- September 1993 (year of issue)
SYLVIE FLEURY, Slim-Fast / vanille, 1993
15 x 18 x 10 cm
screen print on wooden block
signed, numbered
edition 250
condition: very good
published by Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
€ 650,- plus € 28,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
A recurrent contamination of the masculine world and the feminine, of fashion and art or advertising is seen in the works of Sylvie Fleury. In the early nineties she showed in her first exhibition with John M Armleder and Olivier Mosset a pile of empty Coco Chanel boxes intuitively collected by her for years, because of its attractiveness as she once said. Her installations with shopping bags triggered people to call her the ‘Bag Lady’ at a certain point. Nowadays her work is described as political, but definitively her oeuvre does not lack a post-conceptual attitude at all. With the multiple ‘Slim-Fast’ she shows that the idea is very close to how the artist originally was attracted by the Coco Chanel mascara and perfume boxes, only now more rationally made with a tongue-in-cheek to Pop-art.
History of prices:
Piasa, Paris, France 27 September 2023 € 350 (hammer price)
Dorotheum, Vienna, Austria 10 October 2022 € 576,-
Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland August 1993 SFr 500,-
SYLVIE FLEURY, The Art of Survival, 1993
27 x 21 cm, 72 pp.
artist’s magazine / artist’s book,
SC, Lumbeck binding
edition unknown
published by Verlag Walther König, Cologne, Germany / Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
very good condition rare
€ 200,- plus € 18,- registered mail
This is the first catalogue of Sylvie Fleury designed as if it is a fashion magazine. Due to its Lümbeck binding and aging of the glue almost all copies collapsed into a bunch of loose pages when used. Here still in well-bound shape, hence rare.
History of prices:
Amazon.de, Germany April € 245,63
AbeBooks.de, Germany April € 219,66
Anartist-Heritage Bookseller, New York, USA April 2026 GBP 190.29
Anartist, New York, USA January 2025 € 249,-
Booklooker, € 140,- November 2022
Amazon-USA, US$ 688.- October 2022
Amazon-USA, US$ 822.- 28 May 2021
Amazon-UK, GBP 590.12 21 April 2020
Amazon-USA, US$ 794.- 19 December 2017
SYLVIE FLEURY, Vital Perfection, 1993
9,3 x 27,8 x 17 cm
faux fur-lined cardboard shoe box, printed in gold on lid
signed, numbered
edition 100
published by Hervé Mikaeloff, Paris, France rare
€ 950,- plus € 32,- Track & Trace registered EU mail, Margin Scheme
This shoe box (number 19/100) was part of goup exhibition ‘Post Human’, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg / d’Este Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Collection National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, AU Sylvie Fleury
Collection MOMA, New York, USA Sylvie Fleury
History of prices:
Phillips Auctions, London, UK 7 June 2024 € 353,- (hammer price, poor condition)
Live Auctioneers-Wright, Chicago, USA 6 October 2021 € 488,- (hammer price, see condition)
JOHN M ARMLEDER, OLIVIER MOSSET, SYLVIE FLEURY, Three Monkeys, 1991
72,5 x 104 cm
screen print
edition of 100
signed, dated
€ 740,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.AMF 000-pr
In the nineties John Armleder told me the following. One day he, Olivier Mosset and Sylvie Fleury passed a shopping window in which three cuddly toy monkeys were put on display. They looked at each other and at themselves and Sylvie took a picture. Three monkeys forming the AMF clan under which name they regularly had exhibitions together. Not much later this screen print was made.
AMF is a word play of the artists surnames and a company named AMF / American Machine and Foundry that merged in 1969 with Harley Davidson Company. Its logo AMF refers also to one of the AMF artists Olivier Mosset, an enthousiastic Harley Davidson motorcyclist.
History of price:
Koller Auktionen, Zürich, Switzerland 27 June 2023 € 765,- (hammer price)
The Archive is Limited, Amsterdam July 2023 € 700,-
