YOKO ONO, War is over! (If you want it), 2000
52 x 40,5 x 15,5 cm / 20.4 × 16 × 6 inches
letterpress, paper shopping bag
edition unknown
published by Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada. Coll. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
Collection K. van Gelder, Amsterdam
GILBERT & GEORGE, As used by the sculptors, 1973
14,7 x 10,5 cm
postcard
signed (recto)
pubished by Hôtel Carlton Palace, Paris, France
rare
perfect condition
€ 295,- plus € 15,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.G&G 000
The signature is done with ballpoint at the lower part of the postcard. From a certain angle when the ink reflects the light one clearly detects the signature. This rather ephemeral handwriting makes the image undisturbed, and therefore very powerful.
Signature in detail:
TAKAKO SAITO, Behalte die ganze Haut in der Tasche, 2000
7,5 x 7 x 4,5 cm
garlic in handmade mini bag with verso publisher’s stamp
edition 33
signed twice, numbered
published by Noodle Edition, Düsseldorf, Germany
SIGMAR POLKE, The Editioned Works 1963 – 2000, 2000
30,5 x 24,2 x 4,2 cm
catalogue raisonné, 424 pp., weight 2,6 kgs
signed on dust cover
published by Hate Canz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany
pristine condition
very rare
€ 840,- including registered mail
inv.SPol 298
TAKAKO SAITO, Body Music, 2000
18,5 x 5,8 cm
unique glass with hand painted text: Body music. Drink a glass of grappa and listen to its going down.
signed, numbered, edition 6
Takako Saito is a specialist in understanding sound and music from a different angle. In ‘Body music’ she creates a conceptual musical score.
WJM KOK, Aluchrome, 2000
ca 33 x 27 cm
aluminum foil
in cardboard box with holder, gloves, screws, screw rings, instruction sheet
series of 24, here “Serial number: 136355054”
inv. WJM 000
PETER FISHLI & DAVID WEISS, Ohne Titel, 1998-1999
60 x 86 cm (50 x 76 cm)
digital print
edition 200 + 50 AP
signed, numbered
published by Texte zur Kunst, Berlin, Germany
€ 740,- plus € 32,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.F&We 000-pr
Each photograph is a double exposure, made by either Peter Fischli or David Weiss taking pictures and then handing the camera over to the other, or perhaps not, rewinding the film, and shooting again on the same roll of film. The result is a kaleidoscopic world of double-vision
“We were interested in the element of chance,” says Peter Fischli, adding “On the theoretical side, the photographs tread on rather thin ice.” David Weiss affirms: “In fact, they tread quite a thin line: we want to seduce viewers with floral opulence. But you can’t exactly view them ingenuously, either.”
History of prices:
Bernaerts Auctioners, Antwerp, Belgium € 500,- 5 December 2024 (hammer price)
Moderne und Zeitgenössischer Graphik, Cologne, Germany 21 March 2020 € 500,- (hammer price), poor condition
Grisebach, Berlin, Germany € 1.600,- 30 November 2019 (hammer price)
Koller Auction, Zurich, Switzerland SFr 1.000,- 9 December 2017 (hammer price)
YAYOI KUSAMA, Narcissus Garden, 1966 – 1999
ca 28 x 18 x 20 cm
plastic mirror ball, transparent plastic mini bag, ribbon, printed tag
edition 1500
mint condition; pristine ball in clear transparent plastic bag
very rare in this mint condition
published by Les Abattoirs, Lyon, France
p.o.r.
inv.YKus 1098-pr
This mirror ball in transparant plastic bag was shown in “Een goed in de weg staande tafel” curated by Jack Jaeger in Galerie van Gelder in 2001. A catalogue was issued.
In spite of its description being an edition of 1500 this multiple as shown above is difficult to find. It is known that the original version of plastic balls shown in the Venice Biennale in 1966 was produced in an edition of 1500, but one may wonder what has happened with the other 1499 copies. This apparently smaller plastic version is put in a plastic mini bag with tag saying: YAYOI KUSAMA One of the 1500 mirror balls of Narcissus Garden 1966-1999.
Added information
At least one other version of the yellow tag circulates, printed with another date i.e. ‘1966 – 2001’. Also the ribbon has been replaced by a chain. So the tag of the above ball was produced in 1999, the one pictured below in 2001. KvG
Example of a tag with chain instead of ribbon, with slightly aged plastic bag. This tag is of a later date, namely 1966-2001. 
History of price of metal version to compare:
SBI Art Auction Co, Ltd, Tokyo, Japan 25 January 2026 € 2,059 metal version, 2x balls (hammer price)
HENK PEETERS, rain of feathers, 1999
19 x 14,2 cm
hollow shaft of feather with a tiny dot hand glued on cover of booklet, DVD in jewell box
series of 30 unique collages on couver of 16 pp. inserted booklet
signed, dated, numbered
mint
published by Bifrons Foundation, Amsterdam 1999
€ 500,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
In 1998 Thora Johansen, director of the Bifrons Foundation in Amsterdam, invited Henk Peeters to make a film for her Flash project that found its premiere with nine DVD’s in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1999. Peeters very soon came up with an idea of having a rain of white feathers coming down on a glass plate until this was completely covered with a layer of down. It was filmed in colour with a blue background, added with music of invited composer and guitarist Eric Calmes. For the second request to make also a very short film of one minute Henk Peeters decided to have the film in negative run backwards within the given sixty seconds.
When opening the box the feather moves elegantly in the air.
MAURA BIAVA, For Urano, 1999
DVD, booklet
Bifrons Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands
€ 60,- plus € 8,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
First film of Maura Biava with music of composer Roderik de Man.