Category Archives: photographs



WILLIAM EGGLESTON, 2025, Point d’Ironie [Nr. 70]

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WILLIAM EGGLESTON, 2025, Point d’Ironie
39,6 x 30,2 cm
8 pp., offset on thin paper, Number 70
published by Agnes B., Paris, France
mint condition, center folded as issued
inv.Pointd 954-pr

‘William Eggleston (born in 1939, Memphis Mississippi) is an American photographer who pioneered color photography. For the Point d’Ironie, William Eggleston selected four photographs from The Outlands. The Outlands, a series of photographs taken by Eggleston between 1969 and 1974, establishes the groundbreaking visual themes and lexicon that the artist would continue to develop for decades to come.’ Agnes b.

KATHARINA FRITSCH, Spaziergänger mit Hund, 1986 [artist’s postcard]

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KATHARINA FRITSCH, Spaziergänger mit Hund, 1986
14,8 x 10,5 cm
offset, postcard
published by Sonsbeek 86, Arnhem, Netherlands
recto: mint – verso: aged paper
limited edition
photo: Thomas Ruff, Düsseldorf, Germany
€ 50,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.KFrit 886_89-pr

This artist’s postcard was especially printed for sculpture exhibition Sonsbeek ’86 and distributed free to the public attending the show. As with other Fritsch items there was only one printing of the card. In the catalogue raisonné this card is archived as a multiple. Image is by Thomas Ruff, Düsseldorf, Germany.

SYLVIE FLEURY, portrait of a gallerist [wearing bow tie by John M Armleder], 1991

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SYLVIE FLEURY, portrait of a gallerist (wearing bow tie by John M Armleder), 1991
2 unique black and white analogue photo prints
each 15,6 x 10,5 cm / 10,5 x 15,6 cm
signed note, envelope, date-stamped 6-11-1991, 4 parts
inv.SF 377-pr

These photos were taken during the instalment of John Armleder’s second solo exhibition at Galerie van Gelder in 1991, for which he made a.o. three large Pour paintings. He dipped two bow ties into a puddle of paint that was leaking from the paintings leaning against the wall. Sylvie immortalised that action by taking a picture of the gallerist wearing one of the ties.
Vaguely, I remember that Sylvie Fleury wanted to capture my more than average height by photographing from a frog’s point of view. i am not sure, I should ask her about this, I guess. KvG

Note
The letterhead on the notepad sheet reads: “Those SHOES! I must have Those SHOES!” – Confessions of a Crazed Shopper.

gerlach en koop, Een sculptuur van zes meter lang, 2008 [booklet + photograph]

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gerlach en koop, Een sculptuur van zes meter lang, 2008
21 x 15,1 cm
SC, sewn, 48 pp., insert: colour photograph
text by Hans Theys, English / Dutch
edition 300
self-published through gebr. genk, uitgevers, The Hague, Netherlands
inv.GenK 000-pr

“A six metre long sculpture” is a hybride artist’s book, due to the addition of an essay by Hans Theys on the last 12 pages. For an artist’s book, that is a considerable part contributed by a third party.

The first part of the booklet starting on the couver depicts empty pages with a continuous red and blue scribbling at the bottom of each page. The total length is six meters, hence the sudden cut-off by means of a vertical line at the back of the booklet.

AERNOUT MIK, Voorwerp, achter te laten in treinen, 1992 [cassette, photograph]

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AERNOUT MIK, Voorwerp, achter te laten in treinen, 1992
7 x 11 x 1,5 cm
sound tape, cassette, photograph
signed, dated
series of 10 unique works
published by the artist
Collection K. van Gelder, Amsterdam
inv.AMik 000-pr

…That same intensity of being addressed I felt when I saw the cassette tape of Aernout Mik in 1992. Especially the accompanying title “Object to leave behind in trains” lifted me an inch off the ground. A wonderful purifying plan: get rid of objects by letting others find them.”
Kees van Gelder, in catalogue ‘When artists form ideas’, 2021, Parts Project, The Hague, Netherlands.

‘The idea is that the owner of “Object to leave behind in trains” leaves this item in a train’. Talk with Arnout Mik in Bunnik (NL) on 22 March 2024.

“Miks beelden zijn vaak nogal hermetisch waardoor ze iets zelfingenomens krijgen, maar bij dit werk is dat minder het geval. Op en onder een tafel staan een groot aantal voorwerpen: een enorm blik tonijn, een glazen potje met afgeknipte nagels, een papieren zak met een blikje Budweiser-bier. De titel maakt dat je het beeld gemakkelijk voor je ziet: het nagelpotje staande op het koffieplankje naast het raam – wie zou dat hebben achtergelaten en waarom? De groene legertas vol flessen azijn tegenover je op de lege bank in de trein naar Schiphol.” Hans den Hartog Jager, ‘De Utrechtse School’, NRC Handelsblad, 14 februari 1997.

MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM, Op naar een nieuwe wereld!, 2004 [signed edition]

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MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM, Op naar een nieuwe wereld! / On to a new world!, 2004
31 x 23 cm
mat colour photo on aluminum plate, clamshell box
signed, dated, numbered
comes with catalogue
edition 42
mint
published by Buchhandlung Walther Koenig, Cologne, Germany
€ 250,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.MvW 000

The tendency to balance between reality and abstraction is characteristic of the work of Marijke van Warmerdam. This ‘flattening’ of reality may seem to make the work less accessible, but her titles always offer guidance and redemption. They function as a catalyst for the image as a whole, in other words: the image that may be viewed together with the title – as an angle to look from.

The edition ‘On to a new world!’ looks like a landscape of an unknown planet, as if it has been photographed from a high-altitude satellite. A shooting star is added. One may make a wish, it is said. In reality, the landscape is a close-up of a badly plastered wall.
Marijke van Warmerdam likes to take a positive approach, often anticipating on what will possibly take place in the future. By means of the imperative ‘On to a new world!’ she wants to face the future with an optimistic view.
KvG, June 2023

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