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

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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)

KLAUS VOM BRUCH ?, no title, ca 1981-1985 [VHS cassette + 4 photo’s]

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KLAUS VOM BRUCH ?, no title, ca 1981-1985
VHS cassette box, photo copy, 4 Fuji Color photo prints (each 8.8 x 12.6 cm)
splendid condition
unknown publisher
condition: splendid, although one photo has two weak corner folds

For this item an artist’s name is not at hand. It is attributed to Klaus vom Bruch but it cannot be approved. At some point in the eighties I got hold on this VHS cassette including four vintage photo prints. I have a vague remembrance that I got it from Vereniging van Videokunstenaars founded in Amsterdam in 1982. Somewhere I have the idea that this cassette was a kind of promotion material of a video film to be launched soon. Hence a lacking VHS video tape. KvG

MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM, Hear there, everywhere, 1989-1990 [screen print on postcard]

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MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM, Hear there, everywhere, 1989-1990
10,5 x 15 cm
postcard; offset, screen print
published by the artist
Collection K. van Gelder, Amsterdam
inv.MvW 37-39-pr

“In the United States, which Van Warmerdam first visited in 1989, the telephone buttons can be used for both numbers and letters. This led her to replace the meaningless letters with the words ‘Hear, there, every, where’, as though these words can be seen or heard while dialing. The postcard was produced by the artist herself; the four short words are silk-screen printed onto the card.”
From text by Kees van Gelder in catalogue ‘Close by in the distance’ (2011), p. 35.

DIETER ROTH, Bastel-Novelle, 1992 [Volume 35, signed, dated]

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DIETER ROTH, Bastel-Novelle, 1992
30 x 21 x 2 cm
offset
4 magazines, stapled, 2 yellow stickers on plastic bag
signed and dated: Basel, Juni 1992 with felt pen on plastic bag
edition only ca 10-15 plastic bags
Inside “Bastel Novelle 3”: also signed on couver in pencil: D.R. 78
published by Dieter Roth Verlag and issued as package with 4 booklets on behalf of Basel Art Fair 1992
mint condition, although light seepage of glue to front of the yellow stickers
very rare
€ 385,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.DRot 526-pr

 

Originally these four publications were issued by Hans Jörg Mayer in 1974-1978. In 1991 a second run as reprints issued by Dieter Roth Verlag were included in Volume 35 being part of ‘Dieter Roth Gesammelte Werke’.
Bastel-Novelle number 1 printed in an edition of 250.
Bastel-Novelle number 2 printed in a numbered edition of 300.
Bastel-Novelle number 3 printed in an edition of 1000, dated and signed with initials.

There is signed copy is in the collection of the Getty Museum.

History of prices:
Derringer Books, Avon, CT, USA December 2021 US$ 500.- Number 1, single Bastel-Novelle unsigned
Tim Byers Art Books, Richmond, UK December 2021 US$ 207.- Number 1, single Bastel-Novelle unsigned
Zwiggelaar Auctions, Amsterdam 9 December 2021 € 170,- Number 3, single Bastel-Novelle signed (hammer price)

HANNES VAN ES, Clear view on several black stains, 1987 [installation photo]

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HANNES VAN ES, Clear view on several black stains, 1987
17,7 x 24 cm
analogue press photo, Foto: P. Houcmant
inv.HvE 000-pr

This black and white photo was taken of an installation Hannes van Es made as part of his solo exhibition at Galerie van Gelder ‘Werken op papier: 1982 – 1987’. For the first time he used four Vanes acrylic paint cans as weights, placed at the corners of a paper floor work that he had covered with blobs of black Vanes paint. The latter was specifically made by a Spanish company for the purpose of his thick layered paintings.

HANNES VAN ES, portrait 1986 [photo print]

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HANNES VAN ES, portrait 1986
17,9 x 12,7 cm
colour photo print
photo: K. van Gelder
inv.HvE 000-pr

After his works had been installed in GvG (notice the dusty knees of his trousers) on Saturday 10 June 1986 Hannes van Es requested me to take a picture of him under a sculpture named “Vehicle” (1986), made of iroko wood, ivory, gold, silver, resina and lava granite. A small sterling silver crown above the artist’s head was the basic idea of having this photo taken. KvG