SIGMAR POLKE, Untitled, 1989
98,5 x 69 cm / 38.5 x 27 inches
screen print on Schoellershammer 250 grams/m²
signed, edition 940
excellent condition
published by Griffelkunst Vereinigung, Hamburg, Germany
€ 880,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace EU registered mail
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Sigmar Polke was the practicioner of large-scale works whose interest in cartoon and mass media was once called Capitalist Realism in Germany, and whose intensely varied marks yielded a lifelong inventiveness with form, media and chance.
The screen print edition Untitled 1989 of the Griffelkunst Vereinigung is part of the MoMA Print Collection, New York, USA.
History of prices:
Jeschke Jádi Auctions, Berlin, Germany 13 December € 600 (hammer price, poor condition)
Ketterer Kunst, Hamburg, Germany 24 May 2025 € 550 (hammer price)
Van ham Kunstauktionen, Cologne, Germany 9 April 2025 € 800 (hammer price, poor condition))
Antiquariat Querido, Düsseldorf, Germany March 2025 € 1.300
Grisebach Auktionen, Berlin, Germany 18 August 2023 € 1.143
Nosbüsh & Stucke, Berlin, Germany 13 May 2023 € 800 (hammer price)
1st Dibs, Hamburg, Germany, May 2022 € 3.400
Van Ham Kunstauktionen, Cologne, Germany, 6 February 2020 € 1.000 (hammer price)
Jetschke-Van Vliet, Berlin, Germany, November 2020 € 900 (hammer price)
SIGMAR POLKE, Untitled, 1988
98,5 x 69 cm / 38.5 x 27 inches
screen print on Schoellershammer 250 grams/m²
signed, edition 940
published by Griffelkunst Vereinigung, Hamburg, Germany
splendid condition
not available
SPolk 555
Sigmar Polke was the practicioner of large-scale works whose interest in cartoon and mass media was once called Capitalist Realism in Germany, and whose intensely varied marks yielded a lifelong inventiveness with form, media and chance.
The screen print edition Untitled 1989 of the Griffelkunst Vereinigung is part of the MoMA Print Collection, New York, USA.
History of prices:
Jeschke Jádi Auctions, Berlin, Germany 13 December € 500 (hammer price, poor condition)
1st DIBS, Hamburg, Germany, May 2022 € 3.400,-
Century ’87, 1987 each 16,2 x 82,4 cm
6 streamers, screenprint, limited edition:
‘Daan van Golden in de Hortus’
‘Nam June Paik in het Postkantoor’
‘Scholte en Dokoupil op de Wallen’
‘Pieter Laurens Mol op Solder’
‘Clemente in de Kelder’
‘Titus Nolte in de Oude Manhuispoort’
* In 1987 Sjarel Ex initiated Century ’87 together with Els Hoek and Nicolette Gast on behalf of Amsterdam Cultural Capital. It was an exhibition in the Amsterdam city centre featuring installations from 30 contemporary Dutch and foreign artists including Nam June Paik, Barry Flanagan, James Lee Byars, Boltanski, Sarkis, Daan van Golden, Rene Daniels and Marlene Dumas. The graphic design group Wild Plakken distributed the black and white streamers all over town in order to draw attention to the project. Very fine copies. Rare.
ALISON KNOWLES, Untitled, 1986
ca. 9 x 6 x 1 cm / vitrine 12 x 11 x 11 cm
white bean embedded in papier maché
signed, numbered
edition 100
published by Edition Hundertmark, Düsseldorf, Germany
MONTEVIDEO, juni 1984 [program magazine]
ca 21 x 15 cm
offset printed program, 12 pp.
Viewing texts on Ulises Carrión, David García, Annie Wright, John Sanburn, Dan Dinello / Sally Shapiro, Madelon Hooykaas / Elza Stansfield, Sluik / Kurpershoek and John Orentlicher.
€ 35,-
MONTEVIDEO, 1984 [program magazine]
each ca 21 x 15 cm
offset printed program, Dutch texts
lot of 4 issues: maart, mei, juni, juli, each 8 or 12 pp.
March: Astrid Heibach / Klaus mom Bruch, Pim van Pagee / John Sturgeon, Christiaan Bastiaans, Kees de Groot, Sluik / Kurpershoek and Dedo (Harry Hebink). May: viewing texts on Lydia Schouten, Roos Theuws, Eric and Mary Ross, Juan Downey, Noel Harding and Bill Viola. June: viewing texts on Ulises Carrión, David García, Annie Wright, John Sanburn, Dan Dinello / Sally Shapiro, Madelon Hooykaas / Elza Stansfield, Sluik / Kurpershoek and John Orentlicher. July: Hooykaas / Stansfield, Sluik / Kurpershoek, Pieter Baan Muller, Bartlett / Klinkowstein / Tambellini, Marshall Reese and Dan Reeves
sold
ALISON KNOWLES, A Bean Concordance, 1983 New York, 1983
28 x 20 cm / 10 x 7.5 inches
108 pp. of which 90 pp. illustrated
published by Printed Editions, New York, 1983
A Bean Concordance gathers together a variety of material that relates to beans from social detritus across cultures. Clippings include pieces about Native American bean rituals, the Japanese tradition of Setsubun, in which end of winter is marked by throwing beans, and Italian proverbs using beans as well as more graphic findings from newspapers and packaging. In short many bean stories, pictures and ephemera collected and designed by Alison Knowles. Contributors include Alison Knowles, George Brecht, Robert Filliou, Simone Forti, Geoffrey Hendricks, Dick Higgins, Anne Tardos, Yasunao Tone, and many others. Estimate $50.00 August 2013
The first Montevideo catalogue, 1982
17,4 x 25,4 x 3,8 cm
screen print on black cassette with colophon on label, 40 archive cards with tab
text by Tineke Reijnders
Participating artists a.o.: Michael Cardena, Ulises Carrión, René Coelho, Dedo (Harry Heyink), Nan Hoover, Livinus, Sluik/Kurpershoek. At that time all living and working in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
HANS KOETSIER, Advertisements 1969-1981
60 x 46,3 cm
HC, screw binding of heavy weight cardboard pages
signed
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Artist’s book with series of advertisement as art format that weighs 11 kilograms due to the heavy cardboard pages. A bi-lingual text of 9 pages is added to the collection of 93 facsimile plates of front pages of Dutch newspapers Vrij Nederland, Het Parool and NRC-Handelsblad.
