GERHARD RICHTER, Line Color Rainbow Mini Skirt, 2023 [skirt]

GERHARD RICHTER, Line Color Rainbow Mini Skirt, 2023
size M
fabric, 88% polyester, 12% elastane
Order-on-demand production through RedBubble, Melbourne, Australia
‘Designed and sold by Tabatha Anderson’, Manchester, USA
inv.GRich 000

Here the publisher is both dress designer and seller with the help of RedBubble Inc., a company that specializes in Order-on-demand. The print on the fabric is taken from the couver of a catalogue.
One may wonder whether this production – with the artist’s name ostentatious reproduced on the fabric – is made with the consent of Gerhard Richter. Yet, The Archive is Limited brings also unsigned works together, that have been produced during the artist’s lifetime. As such this skirt edition is archived as an authentic work. We consider it as being indirectly approved by or made with the consent of the artist, since apparently no legal forces prevented to have the offered item for sale. One may also look at it as an abuse of Gerhard Richter’s work and name or as a piracy’s action to reproduce the couver of a catalogue showing the name of its publisher Hatje Cantz.
In any case, this is clearly a matter of Product art, no doubt about that. KvG

Note.
On 19th of December 2023 this item was not for sale anymore. Between the 11th and 19th of December suddenly this skirt disappeared from the website of RedBubble, for unknown reasons.

GERHARD RICHTER, Abstract Cover Mini Skirt, 2023 [skirt ]

GERHARD RICHTER, Abstract Cover Mini Skirt, 2023
fabric, 88% polyester, 12% elastane
size M
mint
Order-on-Demand production through RedBubble, Melbourne, Australia
‘Designed and sold by BlankaBlank’, Wiesbaden, Germany
inv.GRich 000

Here the publisher is both dress designer and seller with the help of RedBubble Inc. that specializes in Order-on-Demand.
One may wonder whether this production – with the artist’s name ostentatious reproduced on the fabric – is made with the consent of Gerhard Richter. Yet, The Archive is Limited brings also unsigned works together, that have been produced during the artist’s lifetime. As such this skirt edition has been archived as an authentic work. We consider it as being indirectly approved by or made with the consent of the artist, since apparently no legal forces prevented to have the offered items for sale. In any case, this is clearly a matter of Product art, no doubt about that. KvG

GERHARD RICHTER, Gerhard Richter, 2023 [signed book, slipcase]

GERHARD RICHTER, Gerhard Richter, 2023
30 x 24 x 3 cm
HC, 192 pp., slipcase
signed as issued; limited edition
mint
published by David Zwirner Books, New York, USA
inv.GRich 000-000

The catalogue shows colour plates and installation views. It concerns a selection of the artist’s final works on canvas—made just before he announced his retirement from oil painting in 2017. Also an expansive suite of new drawings made with ink, graphite, and colored pencil on paper, is depicted in the book with a glossy dust couver.

LAWRENCE WEINER, Some Things Brought To Hand, 1995 [XL poster]

LAWRENCE WEINER, Some Things Brought To Hand, 1995
100 x 70 cm
offset poster,4x folded as issued (25 x 35 cm)
condition: good, no tears
published by Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
€ 175,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.LW 547-pr

This publication contains a complete list of editions and multiples anno 1995, assembled and curated by Caroline Nathusius and Vivian Bobka.

History of prices:
Antiquariat Querido, Düsseldorf, Germany December 2023 € 150,-
Derringer Books, Avon CT, USA November 2023 US$ 300.-
Grace Rush Books, Vancouver, Canada November 2023 US$ 250.-

LAWRENCE WEINER, Relative to Hanging, 1975 [artist’s book]

LAWRENCE WEINER, Relative to Hanging, 1975
16,9 x 11,8 cm
SC, 24 pp.
edition 500
published by Edition After Hand, Ringkøping, Denmark
splendid condition
€ 185,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.LW 000-pr

This artist’s book defines five ways of handling the national flag of Denmark:
1. having stood for (as)
2. having stood in (as)
3. having stood up (as)
4. having stood over (as)
5. having stood down (as)
and hence creating various images of how one may use a flag e.g., in a patriotic sense, a colonial way, a representing manner, and so on.

YANN SÉRANDOUR, Cahier Clairefontaine, 2006 [Cahier Clairefontaine + drawing]

YANN SÉRANDOUR, Cahier Clairefontaine, 2006
22 x 17 cm
stapled, 32 pp.
signed, numbered, here nr 9/32
insert of original ink drawing on firm tracing paper
edition 32
mint
published by Édition Cneai, Chatou, France
inv.YSer 000-pr

The couver of this edition was published in six colours: red, orange, yellow, blue, light blue and green.
The printed grids on the notebook pages of ‘Cahier Clairefontaine’ have been originally hand drawn by pupils of the Jules Verne Primary School in Croissy-sur-Seine in France and were reproduced in print. Industrially made notebooks are used for learning to write straight by making use of pre-printed horizontal blue and vertical red lines on each page.
The edition is 1500 of which 32 are numbered and signed.