SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, Untitled [horizon/zon], 1991
51 x 55 x 1 cm
edition 10
metal, steel stamped initials, year and number 9/10
published by the artist
p.o.r.
SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, sketch for Untitled [horizon/sun], 1990
14 x 21 cm
ball point ink on back of invite
Originally Sigurdur Gudmundsson planned to have four horizontal lines and five vertical lines within the iron frame. He brought this idea back to two lines in both ways. In the left top corner a detail is drawn of the 1 x 1 cm bars.
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,-
DAMIEN HIRST, With Dead Head, 1991
19,4 x 24,4 cm / 7 5/8 x 9 5/8 inches
C print, signed recto, numbered
edition 1000
Phillips Auction, New York, USA (Lot nr 243) September 2007 € 1.500,- / $ 1,950.-
Artax Kunsthandel, Düsseldorf, Germany June 2013 € 2.800,- / $ 3,665.-
In September 2008, Damien Hirst sold a complete show ‘Beautiful Inside My Head Forever’ at Sotheby’s by auction and by-passing his galleries he works with. The auction raised £ 111 million ($198 million), breaking Hirst’s own record with £ 10.3 million for The Golden Calf, an animal with 18-carat gold horns and hooves, preserved in formaldehyde. Nowadays, and already for years, he owns Other Criteria a commercial company publishing prints, editions and books by himself in the first place and established artists.
DAMIEN HIRST, With Dead Head, 1991
57 x 76 cm / 22,5 x 30 inches
photographic print on aluminum, signed, numbered
edition 15
Sotheby’s Auction, London, England June 2004 € 25.200,- / GBP 21,600.-
Der Augenblick der stehen bleibt, 1991
29,7 x 21 cm
20 pp. perforated gummed stamps with text ‘Fluxeum Wiesbaden 1. Mai 1991’
published by Harlekin Art, Wiesbaden, Germany
pristine
€ 60,- plus costs of mailing
Fluxus 558
Participating artists are Geoffrey Hendricks, Klaus Staeck, Tim Ulrichs, Heinz Gappmayer, Charley Banana, Ben Patterson, Milan Kunc, Takako Saito, Corsin Fontana and many others
JOHN BALDESSARI, Hand and Chin (With Entwined Hands), 1991
33 x 22 inches
photogravure with colour spit bite aquatint
edition 25
published by Crown Point Press, San Francisco, USA $ 3,500.- June 2009
John Baldessari has created thousands of works that demonstrate the narrative potential of images and the associative power of language within the boundaries of the work of art.
HREINN FRIDFINNSSON, Fragment of Remembrance, 1990
ca 48 x 72 cm / ca 19 x 28 inches (sizes may differ from each other)
iron, silver foiled cristals, 13 parts in wooden box with sticker
edition 12
signed, numbered on certificate
published by Galerie van Gelder Editions, Amsterdam rare
€ 6.500,- plus € 32,- Track & Trace registered mail
Margin Scheme
‘Fragment of Remembrance’ refers to memories of his youth and is partly made of a rolled up iron sheep fence used in the countryside of Iceland to keep sheep together close to the farm, when they are not taken to the mountains for grazing. Born in 1943 in Baer Dölum, Iceland, Hreinn Fridfinnsson employs media that are remarkably varied in scale and substance, from photography, drawings and tracings to presentations and installations of sound, texts and ready-mades. As in this edition Fridfinnnsson often presents found objects with which he interferes as little as possible, creating new works that investigate ideas of the self and of time. He has said that: ‘Notions of time are always compelling. The feeling and the interest in the essence of time is serious, but my dealing with time is not knowledge-based; it is more exploratory and feeling-based.’
GENERAL IDEA, Aids-Amsterdam Tram Project, 1990
62,5 x 63,7 cm
screen print on sticker
handwritten title: Amsterdam Tram Project edition 40, nr 2/40
signed, numbered and dated in black ink
exclusively made for and published by Museum Fodor, Amsterdam
very rare in this mint condition
sold
More than three decades ago in 1990 trams in Amsterdam were covered with this very early AIDS silkscreen poster of General Idea. The ‘Amsterdam Tram Project’ became quite controversial, i.e. conductors refused to drive their trams covered with the colourful and marked stickers afraid of giving their support to or at least being compromised and associated with homosexuality. Later on the artists group had other versions produced in larger editions.
In the mid-1980’s, the Canadian art group General Idea – AA Bronson, Felix Partz, and Jorge Zontal – created a symbol using the acronym AIDS, using the letters in a manner that resembled Robert Indiana’s LOVE logo. This witty allusion became part of Imagevirus, a project of paintings, sculptures, videos, posters, wallpapers and exhibitions that investigated the term AIDS as both word and image, using the mechanism of viral transmission. Imagevirus spread like a visual virus, producing an image epidemic in urban spaces from Manhattan to Sydney. It was displayed as, among other things, a Spectacolor sign in Times Square, a sculpture on a street in Hamburg, and a poster in the New York subway system. General Idea felt compelled to make Imagevirus at a time when AIDS was emerging as a global epidemic affecting gay men disproportionately.
Museum Fodor Amsterdam issued the posters in a signed and numbered edition. Beautiful and witty allusion of Robert Indiana’s famous LOVE icon.
MARIEN SCHOUTEN, untitled 1986
diameter dinner plate: 26,5 cm, hand painted on porcelain cup, saucer, breakfast and dinner plate
edition 250 + 10 AP + 5 HC, here number 242
signed in print underneath dinner plate, hand signed on certificate
published by Kamer van Koophandel / Museum Fodor, Amsterdam
mint condition
€ 360,- plus € 32,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.MSch 1000_1005
Also available:
Dinner-service, 1986-1990
Erik Andriesse, Rob Birza, Marlene Dumas, Kees de Goede, Rob van Koningsbruggen, Marien Schouten, Han Schuil, Jan Sierhuis, Peter Struycken, Toon Verhoef, Co Westerik and Lawrence Weiner.
size dinner plates: 26,5 cm diameter
set of 12 transfer printed and glazed ceramics
all dinner plates signed underneath, each ceramic set comes with signed and numbered certificate
edition of 250 + 15 AP
published by Fodor Museum, Amsterdam and produced by Royal Mosa, Maastricht, Netherlands
mint condition
complete set € 2.800,- + FedEx courier costs
RICHARD ARTSCHWAGER, Bookends, 1990
17 x 16.5 x 10 cm
formica on wood, metal, 2 parts
edition 50, signed, numbered
published by Brooke Alexander Editions for Printed Matter, Inc., New York, USA
not available
The two bookends may be put on their side as a stack that turns them into a sculpture. Or as Richard Artschwager stated in an interview: “You want sculpture, you got sculpture”.
KRISTJÁN GUDMUNDSSON, Drawing, 1989
38 x 18 x 4 cm
solid graphite, paper
signed, numbered, dated
edition of 12
very rare
Galerie van Gelder Editions, Amsterdam, Netherlands
€ 4.800,-
inv.MSch 1000_1005
