La Ligne d’Arrivée, 1993
21 x 9,7 cm
‘Plat du Jour’ voucher of 200 FFrs
edition of 100
signed, numbered, dated
rare
€ 185,- plus € 13,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
‘La Ligne d’Arrivée’ was a restaurant opposite Galerie Gilbert Brownstone & Cie in Paris. The voucher – here unused – could be validated by dining at the restaurant. Only ca 30 have been signed by the artist and very few have been issued, because soon the restaurant closed its doors.
History of prices:
€ 125,- Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam December 2011
€ 150,- Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam June 2016
‘U 40 drop cloth’, 1992
ca 30 x 30 cm
each piece is unique, edition of 106
dripping paint on cloth, pizza box, label on lid
signed, dated
€ 450,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
produced by Galerie van Gelder Editions, Amsterdam
This is a series of unique ‘Drop cloths’ John Armleder has made on cotton. While preparing his solo exhibition in the Centraal Museum Utrecht in 1992 creating a large three panel ‘Pour Painting’ of 3 x 6 meters. After having finished the huge painting the poured over piece of cotton was one big left-over, which was eventually cut into 105 pieces, still wet and very smelly. The 106th piece appeared to be a real left-over as it is shaped in the form of a very long stretched out triangle. The artist folded this one zigzagging into the last pizza box. The code ‘U 40′ refers to the forty paintings he showed in the museum. On the pizza box is a large red sticker ‘U 40 Drop Cloth’ with artist’ name and date. All are signed on the inside of the box. Some of the works are signed on the cloth itself as well as on the box. The edition has not been numbered.
Note: in 1993 the Wiener Secession in Vienna produced a second drop cloth edition, smaller in size and on coloured fabric with a label on the inside of each pizza box.
JOHN M ARMLEDER, Ardor, 1992
height 6 cm, Ø 19,5 cm
electric heater, plug-in electricity cable, cardboard box, label
signed, numbered
edition 12
published by Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy
Foto: K. van Gelder, Amsterdam
sold
JOHN M ARMLEDER, OLIVIER MOSSET, SYLVIE FLEURY, Three Monkeys, 1991
72,5 x 104 cm
screen print
edition of 100
signed, dated
€ 740,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.AMF 000-pr
In the nineties John Armleder told me the following. One day he, Olivier Mosset and Sylvie Fleury passed a shopping window in which three cuddly toy monkeys were put on display. They looked at each other and at themselves and Sylvie took a picture. Three monkeys forming the AMF clan under which name they regularly had exhibitions together. Not much later this screen print was made.
AMF is a word play of the artists surnames and a company named AMF / American Machine and Foundry that merged in 1969 with Harley Davidson Company. Its logo AMF refers also to one of the AMF artists Olivier Mosset, an enthousiastic Harley Davidson motorcyclist.
History of price:
Koller Auktionen, Zürich, Switzerland 27 June 2023 € 765,- (hammer price)
The Archive is Limited, Amsterdam July 2023 € 700,-
’24’, 1989
Ø 10 cm, edition of 24
chrome metal, black cardboard box
engraved J.A. 19/24
published by ECART Edition, Geneva, Switzerland
€ 1.950,- plus € 13,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
untitled, 1988
200 x 300 cm
polyester flag
edition of 10
Published by Gran Pavese, The Hague (?), Netherlands
John M Armleder has worked for more than thirty years, starting off in the 1960s as a performance artist in the Fluxus inspired Geneva group Ecart (trans. French for ‘diversion’). Rather than work out of a studio, he travels, using galleries as studio spaces, working up shows in response to particular spaces, opportunities, possibilities. Here a flag of dots was made for a flag project in The Netherlands in 1988.
‘Furniture Sculpture 193, Caprice’, 1988
Ø 25,4 cm
engraving on bowling ball Caprice by Columbia, vinyl bag
edition 24
not signed, unnumbered
comes with vintage label hand written by JMA and used at Art Basel Edition 1992
€ 3.000,- plus € 32,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.JMA 994-label
‘Cercle et Carré’, 1987
196 x 30 x 39 cm lamp, metal grid, (original) wooden base
edition 18
signed, numbered, dated, certificate
published by Galerie Anselm Dreher, Berlin, Germany
€ 7.500,-
John M Armleder once said (in the eighties) that the work he makes is similar to making B-movies. Here one could conclude that ‘Circle et Carré’ looks very much like the work of a designer. Indeed the lamp is truely a design, but the image with metal grid on the wall is not and just a remarkable addition of the artist.
Stempelboek / Book of stamps, 1975
30 x 21 x 2 cm
edition 51 + 39 HC
published by Brummense uitgeverij van Luxe Werkjes / Jan Brand, Arnhem – Peter van Beveren, Middelburg
not available
This artists book with hand made stamps has been made in co-operation with the Kunstinformatiecentrum in Middelburg run by Peter van Beveren. Some of the 34 contributions are signed a.o. Tim Ulrichs, Marten Hendriks, Hans Werner Kalkman, Robert Jacks, Ken Friedman, Klaus Groh, Uwe Kreutzfeld, John Armleder, Ben Sleeuwenhoek, Endre Tot and Woody van Amen. A few pages are slightly wrinkled due to the technique of stamping.
JOHN ARMLEDER, Niente, purtroppo!, 1975
20,8 x 14,6 cm
SC, 20 pp.
edition 650 + 50 signed
here not signed
published by Edition Galerie Gaëtan and Écart publications, Geneva, Switzerland
condition: fine, although slightly yellowed on spine
€ 140,- plus € 15,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.JMA 279-pr
On top of the edition of 650 an extra 50 copies are signed, i.e. 10 signed, dated and numbered I – X by the artist and participants, incl. original documents and 40 signed, dated and numbered 1 – 40.
History of prices:
Julia J Agius, Geneva, Switzerland, March 2023 SFr 170,-
Laurence McGilvery, La Jolla, CA, USA, 7 July 2022 US$ 150.-
Anartist, New York, USA, 7 July 2022 US$ 100.-
