ANDY WARHOL, Mao, 1974 [wallpaper, double portrait]

ANDY WARHOL, Mao, 1974
135 x 44,5 cm
screen print, wallpaper with text “Andy Warhol – TRIM”
published by Musée Galliera, Paris, France
condition: fine, although partly hue-like discoloured
€ 850,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace EU registered mail

Wallpaper “Mao” can be found with different texts on the left or right border of the print. Apart from this black and white print colour versions were produced.

Andy Warhol had solo exhibition in Musée Galliera in Paris from 23 February through 18 March, 1974.

History of price:
Sworders Fine Arts Auctioneers, Stanstead, UK 22 August 2023 GBP 580 (hammer price)
DuMouchelles, Detoit MI, USA 16 July 2021 US$ 800.- (hammer price)

RAPHAËL LANGMAIR, Again (Monochrome), 2022

RAPHAËL LANGMAIR, Again (Monochrome), 2022
16,5 x 25 x 3 cm
2 burnt slices of bread, cardboard box, ink stamped text
signed, numbered, dated
edition 5
published by the artist
€ 150,-
inv.RLan 1146
In several works Raphaël Langmair deals with duplications. He finds an object and makes a replica, although differently from its original. In the past he used ink of an octopus for making one in print of that same octopus. In another work he takes a fruit market crate and rebuilds it into a triangle shaped one.
Recently one morning he burnt his toast. He took another slice of bread in order to make a toast again. While waiting he decided to burn deliberately the next one as well that brought him two burnt toasts that he turned into a piece, hence the title of this edition: “Again”. KvG

FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES, Untitled, 1991 [artist’s book]

FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES, Untitled, 1991
25,4 x 21,5 cm
SC, 48 pp. + 4 pp.
artist’s book, text by Steven Evens
published by Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milano, Italy
mint condition
not available anymore

The pages of this book are printed with a light blue rectangle against a blue paper background. The work is based on one of the artist’s stack works, recreated on pages. Apart from the two middle pages of the book having an essay by Steven Evans on white paper this work is a crystal clear conceptual allusion of Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s stack sculptures of printed matter.

ADITYIA MANDAYAM, The Ooze, 2018 [book, signed]

ADITYIA MANDAYAM, The Ooze, 2018
12 x 17 cm
book, offset, SC, 144 pp.
interview and texts by Aditya Mandayam (ca 30%)
other texts by Chris Fitzpatrick, Andrea Liu, Michal Novotny and Kees van Gelder
here signed in red ink
edition 500
published by Roma Publications, Amsterdam, Netherlands / Kunstverein München, Germany

 

Usually so-called artist’s books with texts by others than the artist involved are expelled from The Archive is Limited. This book invites to make an exception. “The Ooze” contains 49 pages of 144 that have been written by Aditya Mandayam. The front and back of the cover show reproduced drawings by the artist. “The Ooze” gives an insight in the thinking of Brud through theories and statements.

GERHARD RICHTER, Sils, 1992 [artist’s book, signed, numbered]

GERHARD RICHTER, Sils, 1992
15,5 x 11 cm
artist’s book, HC, 86 pp.
edition 1000, here number 464
signed and hand numbered in pencil
mint condition
published by Oktagon Verlag, München-Stuttgart, Germany
€ 400,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.GRich 102-pr

History of prices:
eBay-inyerfacedesign2009, Bristol, UK June 2025 € 415,-
Golden Waves of Books, Fayetteville, USA January 2023 € 540,-
Gold Books, Austin, USA, January 2023 € 485,-
Hafa Adai Books, Moncks Corner, USA, January 2023 € 455,-
Van Ham Auktionen, Cologne, Germany, 31 March 2022 € 990,- (hammer price)