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.

FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES, Untitled (Passport II), 1993

FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES, Untitled (Passport II), 1993
15 x 10 cm
SC, stapled, 12 pp incl. cover
unlimited edition
condition: excellent, although cover very slightly yellowed
€ 50,- plus € 8,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.FGonz-T 1075

 

History of prices:
Catawiki-arnaudf, Assen, Netherlands, 25 May 2020 € 86,-
Catawiki-arnaudf, Assen, Netherlands, 24 December 2018 € 40,-

FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES, Catalogue Raisonné, 1997 [Vol. 1 + 2]

FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES, Catalogue Raisonné, 1997
each 31.4 x 25.4 cm
Vol. 1 and 2, 280 pp., HC
weight: 2,3 kgs
published by Cantz Verlag, Ostfieldern-Ruit, Germany
condition: splendid, cover of Vol. 1 has very tiny bumps at the right top en lower corners, hardly noticeable
€ 820,- plus € 28,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.FGT 483-pr

 

Felix Gonzalez-Torres was born in 1957 in Cuba, and grew up in Puerto Rico before moving to New York City. He died of AIDS in 1996. Gonzalez-Torres had his first one-man exhibition at Andrea Rosen Gallery in 1990, where he continued to show his work until his death. The estate of Felix Gonzalez-Torres is represented by Andrea Rosen Gallery, N.Y.

His work was the focus of several major museum solo exhibitions in his lifetime and after his death. Retrospectives of his work have been organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (1995), the Sprengel Museum in Hannover, Germany (1997) and the Serpentine Gallery in London (2000) and there are currently several of Gonzalez-Torres’ works in the “Open Ends” exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York through Feb 2001.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres combined the impulses of Conceptual art, Minimalism, political activism, and chance to produce a number of “democratic artworks”— including public billboards, give-away piles of candies, and
stacks of paper available to the viewer as souvenirs. These works, often sensuous and directly audience-centered, complicate the questions of public and private space, authorship, originality and the role of institutionalized meaning. He used the stuff of interior design–electric light fixtures, jigsaw puzzles, paired mirrors, wall clocks and beaded curtains–to queer exhibition spaces in the most simple and poignant ways. His primary audience, as he explained in an interview reproduced here, was his lover, Ross (who died of AIDS 6 years before his own death in 1996). Yet his work clearly appeals to a large audience for its combination of formal restraint and emotional lushness. The theme of lovers is comingled with themes of mortality, loss and absence which surface in the later work. Always charged with the sensibility of an overtly queer man, his art nonetheless often passed under the radar of the self-appointed moral guardians in both the political and art worlds. Felix Gonzales-Torres was a not-so-secret agent, able to infiltrate mainstream consciousness in a most beautiful and poetic way. Activist without being didactic, a catalyst of that rare combination of sensuality and political empathy, he raised the bar on future queer art making, and continues to be one of the most influential artist of his generation.

 

History of prices:
Panoply, US$ 950.- 14 April 2020
Ursus Books, US$ 750.- 14 April 2020
eBay-bvendre, The Hague, Netherlands € 102,19 November 2007

MIKE KELLEY, Love, Theft, Gifting and More Love, 2009 [tattoo patch print]

MIKE KELLEY, Love, Theft, Gifting and More Love, 2009
15,6 x 17,2 cm
iron on patch print; bent as issued, instruction in print
& LOUISE LAWLER, No Smoking, 2009 (match book)
booklet, 24 pp.
cardboard box (19 x 14 x 3 cm) with sticker on Mylar lid with silver coloured rubber band
including 12 cards by Mike Kelley / Louise Lawler, Sophie Calle, Trisha Donnelly, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Sam Durant, Fabrice Gigi, Jamie Isenstein, Leigh Ledare, Mai-Thu Perret, Aura Rosenberg, Greg Parma Smith and Lawrence Weiner
published by Swiss Institute, New York, USA
mint condition
temporary offer: € 210,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace EU registered mail
inv.MK 04-pr

History of prices:
eBay-artplus, New York, USA March 2024 US$ 300.-
D.R. Fine Arts, New York, USA May 2023 US$ 300.-
D.R. Fine Arts, New York, USA May 2022 € 250,-
AbeBooks September 2017 US$ 500.-

FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES, Untitled (Double Portrait), 1991 [print from stack]

FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES, Untitled (Double Portrait), 1991
69 x 98 cm
stack with offset posters, gold ink on paper
unlimited edition
condition: excellent
published by the artist
€ 160,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace registered EU mail

inv.FGT 000-pr

See Tate Modern: Untitled “Double Portrait”

History of price:
Archives, Paris, France January 2024 US$ 504.-