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,-
GER VAN ELK, Western Stylemasters, 1991
115 x 90 cm
photography
signed, numbered, combined dated
edition 50
not available
In the eighty’s Ger van Elk started to combine photographic illusion and reality with the Dutch 17th centuary art history, such as painted landscapes, still lives, portraits and animals. In his work ‘Western Stylemasters’ the standing artist looks at himself sitting, as such portrayed as part of a group of samplers as in Rembrandt’s paintings having the task to certify textiles.
DAMIEN HIRST, With Dead Head, 1991
19,4 x 24,4 cm / 7 5/8 x 9 5/8 inches
C print
signed, numbered
edition 1000
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 ($198 million), breaking Hirst’s own record with £ 10.3 million for The Golden Calf, an animal with 18-carat gold horns and hooves, preserved in formaldehyde. Nowadays, and already for years, he owns Other Criteria a commercial company publishing prints, editions and books by himself in the first place and established artists.
History of prices:
Artax Kunsthandel, Düsseldorf, Germany June 2013 € 2.800,-
Phillips Auction, New York, USA (Lot nr 243) September 2007 US$ 1,950.-
Additional information
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.-
RAÚL MARROQUIN, Marroquin Font, 1991
31,5 x 21,5 x 3,2 cm
screen print on sheets of acetate, cardboard box
signed and numbered on certificate, text in screen print on box
ca 1.3 kgs
edition 20
splendid condition
published by Zeger Reijers’ Multiples, Rotterdam, Netherlands
€ 1.200,- plus costs registered mail
Raúl Marroquin is known for undermining existing structures whether in video art, pop music (with his would-be pop band The Sets) or high-tech stream systems. In 1991 he introduced a new type font and in 1998 his letter innovation was bought by Adobe and integrated in their official typefaces. Later on also Apple Inc. included his font in their standard letter faces.
Although the name “Marroquin Font” on the cover of the box suggests the official title, it differs from the name printed on the accompanying and signed certificate. There the multiple is called “Marroquin Roman” referring to the typeface he designed in 1991 as a playful challenge to his friends who would never think of having their names connected to a typographic font. Traditionally a Roman font is provided with serifs, but Marroquin decided to have his without.
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 € 12 Track & Trace registred EU mail
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
History of prices:
Booklooker, Germany August 2024 € 90,-
eBay Feb. 2015 € 150,-
ZVAB € 295,- Feb. 2015 € 295,-
RICHARD PRINCE, Skull Bunny shopping bag, 1991
50 x 28 x 8 cm
offset on stiff paper bag
limited edition
published during Art Basel 1991 by Printed Matter, New York, USA and Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada
text ‘Learn to read Art’ by Lawrence Weiner, bag printed by Imschoot, Uitgevers
condition: used
€ 620,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.RPri 000
This paper bag by Richard Prince was produced for supporting Art Metropole at Art Basel 1991. For the sake of supporting Art Metropole Richard Prince signed 29 bags.
History of prices:
DR Fine Arts, New York, USA 18 October US$ 1,600.-
Artware, Berlin, Germany 18 October 2024 US$ 1,500.-
eBay-Fine Art LA Store, Los Angeles, USA 18 October 2024 US$ 2,000 (make offer)
Nosbüsch & Stucke, Berlin, Germany 13 May 2023 € 330,- (hammer price)
eBay-lakersla8, Los Angeles, USA, October 2022 US$ 2,000.- (make offer)
eBay-banksysells, New York, USA, December 2021 US$ 1,500.- (make offer)
Global Galleries, non-profit platform 18 July 2019 € 1.100,-
Artcurial SVV, Paris, France 16 May 2018 € 1.950,- (unsigned)
Nosbüsh & Stucke, Berlin, Germany 13 May 2023 € 330,- (hammer price)
eBay-artplus, New York, USA, December 2022 US$ 700.-
Zwiggelaar Auctions, Amsterdam June 24 2022 € 400,- (hammer price)
Printed Matter, New York, USA July 2021 US$ 500.-
eBay/moplen2003, 13 January 2021 € 650,-
Paddle auction, 16 July 2014 US$ 1,700.-
Art Metropole, Toronto and in booth at Art Basel 1991 SFr 150.- (in year of issue)
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.’
JIM SHAW, The Dogz – It’s Easter in My Brain / Willy Nilly, n.d. [1990]
7″ vinyl EP (45 rpm single), day-glo ink on picture sleeve
percussion: Mike Kelley
edition unknown signed
published by Cameo Appearance, USA
pristine
€ 195,- + € 12,- Track & Trace EU registered mail
inv.JSha 000-pr
A self-pressed (neo-psychedelic) design by Jim Shaw single from 1990 features two songs penned by Jim Shaw (“It’s Easter in My Brain” b/w “Willy Nilly”) with musical backing by “The Dogz” – an all-star cast of early nineties Cal Arts graduates featuring Mike Kelley, Stephen Prina, Eddie Ruscha, Art Byington and Richie Lee. The vocalists include Shaw, Liz Larner, Maija Beeton, Cindy Bernard, Laura Graham, and Martine Tomczyk. Some copies are signed by Jim Shaw.
History of prices:
Cameo Appearance Records, Los Angeles, USA US$ 100.- 1990
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.
