RENÉ DANIELS, De donkere kamer, 1986 [screen print]

RENÉ DANIELS, De donkere kamer, 1986
ca 21 x 30 cm
screen print
signed, dated
edition 250
published by Code magazine, Amsterdam
€ 750,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.RDan 000

Galerie The Living Room in Amsterdam published Code, a magazine founded by artists of the gallery. Since 1987 each issue was ca twice a year published in 450 copies. To each magazine a signed screen print was added; folded as insert. Participating artists Jiri Dokoupil, Peter Schuyff, Günther Förg, Rob Scholte, a.o. Several prints that were never used as an insert are unfolded and are rare.

Code is an artist’s magazine initiated by artist Martin van Vreden and published between 1983 – 1989 during which ten issues were produced. The first eight issues contained a screen print in an edition of 250 copies of artists like Rob Scholte, Frank van den Broeck, René Daniels, Peter Schuyff and Jiri Georg Dokoupil. Many artists including Martin van Vreden that published in the magazine were closely attached to The Living Room at hat imd an influential and ambitious gallery in Amsterdam introducing successfully Dutch artists like Rob Scholte, Henk Visch and Fortuyn/O’Brien.

History of prices:
BVA Auctions, Amersfoort, Netherlands 19 December 2022 € 640,- (hammer price)
Kunstgalerij De Vuyst, Lokeren, Belgium 2 March 2019 € 550,- (hammer price)
Venduehuis der Notarissen, The Hague, Netherlands 19 April 2018 € 500,- (hammer price)
Adams Amsterdam Auctions, Amsterdam 4 December 2018 € 240,- (hammer price)
Jetske-Van Vliet, Berlin, Germany 3 July 2010 € 600,- (hammer price)

PHILIP CORNER, Piece of reality, 1986

PHILIP CORNER, Piece of reality, 1986
plastic box: 6 x 3 x 5 cm, paper with stamped text: ca. 2,5 x 1 cm
signed, numbered
edition 150,
published by Edition Hundertmark, Düsseldorf, Germany

This ‘Piece of reality’ of Philip Corner was made for a box with many contributing artists. The edition of 150 was in fact a series of different tiny objects as shown.

JOSEPH BEUYS, Schwefelpostkarte [1984]

JOSEPH BEUYS, Schwefelpostkarte [1984]
10,5 x 15 x 0,5 cm
galvanised iron, sulphur, text
signed by Joseph Beuys and Klaus Staeck
ca. 100 produced
Edition Staeck, Heidelberg, Germany
p.o.r.

This card was meant as a Christmas card covered with a thick layer of sulphur representing cleansing Western society since it is used as a desinfecting medicine. The back of the metal card reads: “frohe schweflige weinachten”:

DADI GUDBJÖRNSSON, Thingummy – Collective Drawings, n.d. [1984]

Thingummy – Collective Drawings, n.d. [1984]  
19 x 19 x 1,7 cm
vinyl record 33 RPM, 46 sheets in offset, 2 original linocut prints, cardboard box
numbered edition of 500
mint, although condition box: used
published by Mobshop, Varmá, Iceland and Kalejdoskop / Sune Nordgren, Ahus, Sweden
€ 140,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.DGud 365-pr

FRANCESCO CLEMENTE, White Shroud, 1983 [text by Alan Ginsberg]

FRANCESCO CLEMENTE, White Shroud, 1983 – text by Alan Ginsberg
40 x 31 cm
offset, HC, 32 pp., cloth bound green cover with guild title, plastic dust jacket
screen print on first page
edition 1111, here nr 821
published by Kalakshetra Publications Press, Madras, India
condition: excellent, apart from tiny missing plastic part of 1 cm on plastic protection jacket, otherwise a flawless copy in the original tight acetate dust jacket, with Indian hand made rough linen cover
€ 240,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail inv.FCle 000-pr

 


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History of prices:
Dr. Fine Arts, New York, USA US$ 300.- March 2023
The Archive is Limited, Amsterdam € 300,- July 2019
booksellers offer between US$ 252 – 350,- June 2014

JOSEPH BEUYS, Sonne statt Reagen [LP], 1982

JOSEPH BEUYS, Sonne statt Reagan, 1982
18 x 18 cm
LP vinyl
signature in print
produced by label Musikant
very good condition
€ 220,- + € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.JBeu 000

In response to the planned deployment of medium-range nuclear missiles, a large peace movement of the 1960s started in Germany, in which Joseph Beuys was also involved. Being politically committed, Beuys tried his hand with tongue-in-cheek as a pop singer. His song “Sonne statt Reagan” is against Ronald Reagan’s armaments policy. The song was released on record and Beuys appeared in front of a large audience at demonstration meetings of the peace movement. Together with the band Die Desserteure he performed the song in the ARD TV program »Bananas« on July 3, 1982.

Extra information:

JOSEPH BEUYS, Sonne statt Reagan, 1982
18 x 18 cm
LP vinyl
printed signature on sleeve, hand signed, framed
published by NBK / Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany

History of prices:
Kunstveiling.nl, 31 January 2021 € 700,-
eBay, December 2011 € 1.100,-

JOSEPH BEUYS, Sonne statt Reagan, 1982
18 x 18 cm
LP vinyl
signature in print on sleeve, hand signed in red circle of oil paint
added text: ‘Überbringer: Staeck 8.11.82’
edition 90 
published by Edition Staeck, Heidelberg, Germany