JOHN BALDESSARI, Brain / Cloud: with Seascape and Palm Tree, 2009

JOHN BALDESSARI, Brain/Cloud: with Seascape and Palm Tree, 2009
74 x 58 cm edition of 145
inkjet print
signed on certificate, numbered, dated                                                                                                                                        

John Baldessari: “I like banal images and I can’t think of anything more banal than a palm tree and an ocean.”
not available anymore

 

History of prices:
Counter Editions GBP 1,200.- September 2012

SARAH MORRIS, Big Ben 2011, 2012

SARAH MORRIS, Big Ben 2012, 2011
76 x 60 cm
screen print with one glaze on 410 gsm paper
edition of 200
signed, numbered, dated
Counter Editions, London, UK GBP 900.- September 2012

Since the mid-1990s Sarah Morris has been creating complex, geometric, abstract paintings derived from cityscapes and architectural detail, signs and symbols. To celebrate the Paralympic Games 2012 in London Morris has created an abstract representation of one of the city’s most iconic landmarks: Big Ben. The grids and vivid colours create a sense of dynamism and also may evoke images of athletic tracks, swimming lanes, and field markings.

History of price:
Counter Editions, London, UK GBP 900.- September 2012

MARTIN CREED, Work No. 1273, 2011 [lithograph]

MARTIN CREED, Work No. 1273, 2011
76 x 60 cm
lithograph on 300 gsm paper
edition of 250
signed, numbered, dated
pubished by Counter Editions, London, UK

Martin Creed imposes simple rules on his creativity. He might create a painting using only paintbrushes bought in a multi-pack, or make only one mark a day with the same felt-tip pen until the whole paper surface is covered. Repetition, stacks, and intervals are familiar motifs in his work, along with ascending and descending structures. For Work No.1273, Creed has made five single brush marks using a palette derived from the Olympic colours. The marks are arranged in an ascending form that seems to represent an extended podium.

History of prices:
Counter Editions, London, UK £ 640.- September 2012

TAKAKO SAITO, Buch der Brust, 1984

TAKAKO SAITO, Buch der Brust, 1984
14,5 x 3 x 12,5 cm
gouache pen, pencil, crayon drawings, copper and thread hinge, handmade cardboard box, cellophane, 10 pp.
edition 8
published by Noodle Edition, Dusseldorf, Germany
sold

Takako Saito shaked up notions of perception and aesthetic experience. Games of chess, playing cards, making art together, games in general were turned into a non-visual experience and activity, such as making use of smell, tactility, and aurality, with a result of breaking existing rules. She has made various kinds of books including Rhine water, sound of thrown paper cubes, and the like. In ‘Buch der Brust’ the artist challenged the traditional notion of a book by turning the pages into the shape of a women’s breast.

GERHARD RICHTER, Die Welt, 2012

GERHARD RICHTER, Die Welt, 2012
57,3 x 40 cm
digital pigment print on heavy quality paper
signed, numbered
edition 100
published by Die Welt, Berlin, Germany
mint condition
€ 7.800,- plus € 32,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.GRich 401-pr

The own family is a recurring motive in the work of Gerhard Richter, opposite to newspaper clippings of people he doesn’t know and that he integrates in his paintings. He painted his first wife, Ema, he portrayed his daughter “Betty” as well as his “Uncle Rudi” and “Aunt Marianne”. The latter two family members were painted in relation to Nazi Germany.

The front page of the edition of the daily newspaper “Die Welt” depicts Richter’s second wife Sabine in a white bathrobe and his son Theo in a striped towel, although not recognizable. Painted in his renowned style of blurring a realistic image. Gerhard Richter remarked that it reminded him of Ingres’ painting ‘The Turkish Bath’ (the picture was taken in hotel “Waldhaus” in Sils-Maria).

History of prices:
ArtPrintX.com, Ravensburg, Germany € 8.714,- February 2024
Artsation GmbH, Munich, Germany € 10.400,- June 2016
Lempertz, Cologne, Germany € 5.208,- November 2015 (hammer price)
Artsation GmbH, Munich, Germany € 10.400,- December 2014
Artsation GmbH, Munich, Germany € 7.350,- September 2013
Artsation GmbH, Munich, Germany € 5.350,- August 2013
Die Welt, Berlin, Germany September (year of issue) € 2.000,-

 

Extra information:

GERHARD RICHTER, Die Welt of 5 October 2012
offset newspaper
29,5 x 40 cm
edition ca 251.500
splendid condition, folded to tabloid size as shown
published by Die Welt, Berlin, Germany
inv.GRich 000-pr

UGO RONDINONE, Cigarettesandwich, 2011

UGO RONDINONE, Cigarettesandwich, 2011                                                                                                                                     DVD 52′, jewel case
edition 300
published by Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Switzerland
not available

Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone examinins the psychic and emotional nature of even the most banal events that occur in real life. Since 1997, Rondinone has been making neon-lit, rainbow-colored signs from phrases he appropriates from pop songs and everyday exclamations that are joyous affirmations of love and life, including the sculpture “Hell, Yes” which spells out the title in gigantic rainbow letters on the facade of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in Manhattan’s Bowery district in New York City.

History of prices:
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Switzerland     € 300,- / US$ 400.- August 2012

UGO RONDINONE, still.life. (apple), 2008

UGO RONDINONE, still.life. (apple), 2008                                                                                                                   2.25 x 2.5 x 2.25 inches
painted bronze, lead
edition 20
not available

Ugo Rondinone’s “still.life (apple)” is a highly realistic, lead-filled, painted bronze sculpture. A promotion text explains: ‘As the title still.life suggests, Rondinone’s multiple represents a self-contained, frozen moment; weighted and isolated with lead. This apple is an object of desire: it is a sublime example of trompe l’oeil, which reflects a long tradition of still life in paintings’.

History of prices:
Sculpture Center, New York, USA     US$ 6,500.- February 2012

SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, Fragment, 1969 – 2010

SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, Fragment, 1969-2010
32,3 x 23,9 cm (image 9,9 cm x 10,7 cm)  /  12.7 x 9.4 inches (image size is 3.9″ x 4.2″)
black and white photograph
signed, numbered
edition 70

Depicting circumstances with absurdist tweaks, his Situations as he calls them read as visual poems that explore the idiosyncrasies of human existence and tend toward the comical while retaining philosophical gravity. Gudmundsson uses himself as the subject of the Situations, but does not consider the works to be self-portraits but, rather, open-ended reflections on a more universal level.