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
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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
signed, dated
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.
ENZO CUCCHI, T-shirt, size L, 1986
print on cotton
edition unknown
condition: mint and folded as issued
very rare
published by Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
€ 195,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace EU registered mail
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Here, this item comes in light weight customized cardboard box.
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
Provenance Pop Shop, New York, USA.
RENÉ DANIELS, De donkere kamer, 1986
ca 21 x 30 cm
screen print
signed, dated
edition 250
published by Code magazine, Amsterdam
€ 550,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
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Galerie The Living Room in Amsterdam published Code, a magazine founded by artists of the gallery. Since 1987 each issue was ca twice a year published in 450 copies. To each magazine a signed screen print was added; folded as insert. Participating artists Jiri Dokoupil, Peter Schuyff, Günther Förg, Rob Scholte, a.o. Several prints that were never used as an insert are unfolded and are rare.
Code is an artist’s magazine initiated by artist Martin van Vreden and published between 1983 – 1989 during which ten issues were produced. The first eight issues contained a screen print in an edition of 250 copies of artists like Rob Scholte, Frank van den Broeck, René Daniels, Peter Schuyff and Jiri Georg Dokoupil. Many artists including Martin van Vreden that published in the magazine were closely attached to The Living Room at hat imd an influential and ambitious gallery in Amsterdam introducing successfully Dutch artists like Rob Scholte, Henk Visch and Fortuyn/O’Brien.
History of prices:
Bernaerts Auctioneers, Antwerp, Belgium 26 April 2024 € 400,- (hammer price)
BVA Auctions, Amersfoort, Netherlands 19 December 2022 € 640,- (hammer price)
Kunstgalerij De Vuyst, Lokeren, Belgium 2 March 2019 € 550,- (hammer price)
Venduehuis der Notarissen, The Hague, Netherlands 19 April 2018 € 500,- (hammer price)
Adams Amsterdam Auctions, Amsterdam 4 December 2018 € 240,- (hammer price)
Jetske-Van Vliet, Berlin, Germany 3 July 2010 € 600,- (hammer price)
PHILIP CORNER, Piece of reality, 1986
plastic box: 6 x 3 x 5 cm, paper with stamped text: ca. 2,5 x 1 cm
signed, numbered
edition 150,
published by Edition Hundertmark, Düsseldorf, Germany
This ‘Piece of reality’ of Philip Corner was made for a box with many contributing artists. The edition of 150 was in fact a series of different tiny objects as shown.
KEITH HARING, Untitled, ca 1985
Pop Shop bag – white
print on plastic bag, red rope
published by Pop Store, New York, USA
condition: used
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KEITH HARING, Three Eyed Face, 1985
10,8 x 10 x 3,6 cm
transistor radio, including lid
edition unknown, provenance Pop Shop, New York 1985
published by Pop Shop, New York, USA
private collection
JOSEPH BEUYS, Schwefelpostkarte [1984]
10,5 x 15 x 0,5 cm
galvanised iron, sulphur, text
signed by Joseph Beuys and Klaus Staeck
ca. 100 produced
Edition Staeck, Heidelberg, Germany
p.o.r.
This card was meant as a Christmas card covered with a thick layer of sulphur representing cleansing Western society since it is used as a desinfecting medicine. The back of the metal card reads: “frohe schweflige weinachten”:
TAKAKO SAITO, Monolog von Kartoffel, 1984
18 x 16 x 7 cm / size cardboard box: 7,7 x 19 x 15,2 cm
stamp printed texts, Pergamin paper, wood, hanging thread and hand made cardboard box (also signed, numbered)
slightly coloured due to aging
edition 5, here number 3/5
signed, numbered, dated
published by Noodle Edition, Düsseldorf, Germany
€ 485,- + € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
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