Category Archives: J-P



ALEX KATZ, Ada with Sunglasses, 2008 [beach towel]

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ALEX KATZ
Ada with Sunglasses, 2008
176 x 153 cm
beach towel, tag, original wrapping
limited edition
published by Works on Whatever, New York, USA
mint condition
€ 750,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
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History of prices:
Los Angeles Modern Auction, LA, USA 21 August 2025 US$ 500.- (hammer price)
eBay-thearteryfineart, Miami, Florida, USA September 2022 US$ 1.000.- (make offer)
eBay-thearteryfineart, Miami, Florida, USA January 2022 US$ 800.- (make offer)
Works on Whatever, New York, USA in 2008 US$ 98.-

OLAF NICOLAI, Kombination I, 2007

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OLAF NICOLAI, Kombination I, 2007 24 × 24 cm
collage, various color combinations, edition of unique series unknown
Galerie Hans Mayer, Duesseldorf, Germany

Repetition is an important motif which appears in Olaf Nicolai’s works continuously. He focuses on the repetitiveness of images from our memory and our subconscious. He also makes works with distorted advertising art. Thus, familiar images are put in new situations again and again. Nicolai often integrates scientific findings into his concepts. His fascination with mathematical models, universal algorithms, symbolism, and regular patterns can be seen in many of his works or installations.

OLAF NICOLAI, Kombination, 2009
24 × 24 cm
collage, various color combinations
published by NBK / Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
not available

History of prices:
NBK / Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany € 1.800,-  December 2012

MIKE KELLEY, Little Friend, 2007 [doll]

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MIKE KELLEY, Little Friend, 2007
43 x 30 x 16,5 cm / 17 x 11 x 6.5 inches
fake fur, felt, plastic, speaking device, original cardboard box
covered in blue plush with plastic eyes, felt hands and feet
edition of 800
pristine condition
comes in original window box
published by Whitney Museum, New York, USA
€ 1.250,- plus € 32,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
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This plush toy has a startling characteristic. Like many plush toys, when you squeeze their belly they speak, but here Mike Kelley made this one to speak 20 different phrases you don’t expect to hear from a toy. It says a.o. things like “Hurt me, I don’t mind,” and “Do you really love me?”

History of prices:
Phillips Auctions, New York, USA US$ 967.- (incl. premium)
Los Angeles Modern Auctions, Los Angeles, USA US$ 1,270.- 12 June 2025 (incl. premium)
Los Angeles Modern Auctions, Los Angeles, USA US$ 1,016.- 18 March 2025
Bonhams Cornette de Saint-Cyr, Brussels, Belgium € 832,- 24 September 2024
Art.net, private collection, Miami USA US$ 2,750.-, May 2023 (make an offer)
Vince Fine Arts, Miami, US$ 4,500.- January 2023
Lama Auctions, Van Nuys, CA, USA US$ 813.- 16 December 2021 (incl. premium)
Vince Fine Arts, Miami, US$ 3,000.- April 2020
Alternate Projects, US$ 1,800.- April 2020
Artsation, Berlin, Germany € 2.500,- March 2014
Whitney Museum, New York, USA, € 360,- / US$ 475.- October 2012

JILL MAGID, Lincoln Ocean Victor Eddy, 2007 [regular copy]

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JILL MAGID, Lincoln Ocean Victor Eddy, 2007
20,8 x 14,5 cm
artist’s book, 54 pp.
edition 800
numbered
mint
published by The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
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This artist’s book/diary was funded by The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council for the Off the record commission.

* Cover text:
“Last winter I came back to New York City after living five years abroad. I rented an apartment in Brooklyn and took the subway often. Everyone is in transit, except the officers. I approached one and asked him to search me.”

OLIVIER MOSSET, wallpaper, 2006

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OLIVIER MOSSET, wallpaper, 2006
53 x 100,5 cm / 20.86 inches x 11 yards
edition 100
published by Wallpaper by Artists, Lyon, France
extremely rare
mint condition
Private collection, Amsterdam
Margin Scheme

With this plain yellow wallpaper Olivier Mosset continues his exploration of monochromes, a smooth manufactured plane with no more than one colour and its materiality. Although this wallpaper too is meant to be attached to a wall creating a monochrome colour field, here the roll could be looked at as a monochrome sculpture by Olivier Mosset. As a kind of DIY edition quite a few rolls have been used to create a monochrome wall in yellow by Olivier Mosset. Hence quite uncommon.
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CHRISTIAN JANKOWSKI, Überhappy, 2005 [DVD]

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CHRISTIAN JANKOWSKI, Überhappy, 2005
DVD, 2’28” min.
composition “Überhappy (1)” by Chiel Meijering
2nd film by counterpart advertising company DDB, Berlin and Chief Creative Officer Amir Kassaei
booklet, 12 pp., English text by Paul Groot
one time limited edition 800
published by the Bifrons Foundation, Amsterdam
menu for both loop and single play
€ 180,-

Basically Christian Jankowski is collaborative in nature and his works are based on interactions with non-artworld counterparts, including bankers, weight-lifting champions, cleaning companies, porn studios, horror film producers and in this case director/founder Thora Johansen of the Bifrons Foundation in Amsterdam. Often incorporating chance, accident, and spur of the moment decisions lead to the finished artwork, Jankowski never fulfils a brief as expected, identifying contemporary phenomena that interest him and inverting their meaning.
In the case of Überhappy Christian Jankowski asked both director and harpsichordist Thora Johansen to let herself musically involved and to dance in her studio which she co-operatively did. Question is whether this is painful for her or the artist. Or both…..

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