BEN VAUTIER, Attention travaux en cours, 2012
27 x 27,5 x 34,5 cm
printed texts on plastic file box, 4 drawers
published by Quo Vadis, Paris, France
History of price:
Quo Vadis, Paris, France € 50,- December 2012 (year of issue)
For a very short period a similar and more fancy version was offered for sale as featured below. It had white brims on the front side of each drawer. The inner part of the drawers were also white.
BEN VAUTIER Attention travaux en cours / Big Box Ben, 2012
27 x 27,5 x 34,5 cm
printed texts on plastic file box, 4 drawers
published by Quo Vadis, Paris, France
History of price:
Quo Vadis, Paris, France € 53,- November 2012 (year of issue)
BEN VAUTIER, Écrire entre les lignes, ca 2012
plastic display for shop counter, 50 pens with 4 different sentences in print
Parker Guitars Vector
published by Parker Pen Company, Newhaven, East Sussex, UK extremely rare
pristine
€ 4.800,- + € 32,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
A word, a thought or a slogan like ‘To write between the lines’ is in the art of Ben Vautier a trade mark for many years now. He is known for his performances, installations, his Fluxus shop in Nice and texts on paintings and objects. Writing his texts in white-on-black is his favorite activity. He calls his art Total Art.
Both museums and private entrepreneurs gladly make use of his tongue-in-cheek words. Here Parker Pen Company managed to make a deal with the artist concerning Ben Big Box products. This is definitely a sculpture and not so much a counter display for selling Parker pens.
JIM SHAW, Hairdo, 2012
61 x 45,7 cm
lithograph, signed, numbered, edition 100
produced by Baltic, Gateshead, UK € 436,- / £ 350.- November 2012
The comic book image ‘Hairdo’ of a 1960s bouffant wig references a passage from Shaw’s proposed prog-rock opera based on his fictional religion Oism, a narrative he has been working on for more than 20 years. The image also refers to a mural ‘The Rinse Cycle’ 2012, in which a group of oversized bouffant hairdo’s hover around a desert landscape they share with the interior view of a washing machine in mid-cycle.
UPON PAPER No. 2: Los Angeles, 2012
68,6 x 50,8 cm / 20 x 27 inches
SC, 80 pp., paper box
published by Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, Germany
€ 85,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace registered mail
Published bi-annually, and housed in a paper box Upon Paper is a large-format periodical offering a platform for works on paper. Each issue is devoted to a single theme. The theme for this inaugural issue is ‘Color’ and comes with contributions of Peter Saville, Nick Knight, Francis Bacon, Erwin Frotin, Walter Pfeiffer and Bob Dylan.
UPON PAPER No. 1: Los Angeles, 2012
68,6 x 50,8 cm / 20 x 27 inches
SC, 80 pp., paper box
published by Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, Germany
€ 85,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace registered mail
Published bi-annually, and housed in a paper box Upon Paper is a large-format periodical offering a platform for works on paper. Each issue is devoted to a single theme. The theme for this inaugural issue is Los Angeles.
LAWRENCE WEINER, Untitled [Dem Frieden eine Form geben], 1985
85 x 60 cm
offset
edition 50, of which 30 copies numbered 1/30 – 30/30 and 20 AP copies numbered I/XX – XX/XX
signed, numbered
Edition René Block, Berlin, Germany
condition: splendid
€ 680,-
TAKAKO SAITO, Buch der Brust, 1984
14,5 x 3 x 12,5 cm
gouache pen, pencil, crayon drawings, copper and thread hinge, handmade cardboard box, cellophane, 10 pp.
edition 8
published by Noodle Edition, Dusseldorf, Germany
sold
Takako Saito shaked up notions of perception and aesthetic experience. Games of chess, playing cards, making art together, games in general were turned into a non-visual experience and activity, such as making use of smell, tactility, and aurality, with a result of breaking existing rules. She has made various kinds of books including Rhine water, sound of thrown paper cubes, and the like. In ‘Buch der Brust’ the artist challenged the traditional notion of a book by turning the pages into the shape of a women’s breast.
GERHARD RICHTER, Die Welt, 2012
57,3 x 40 cm
digital pigment print on heavy quality paper
signed, numbered
edition 100
published by Die Welt, Berlin, Germany
mint condition
€ 7.800,- plus € 32,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.GRich 401-pr
The own family is a recurring motive in the work of Gerhard Richter, opposite to newspaper clippings of people he doesn’t know and that he integrates in his paintings. He painted his first wife, Ema, he portrayed his daughter “Betty” as well as his “Uncle Rudi” and “Aunt Marianne”. The latter two family members were painted in relation to Nazi Germany.
The front page of the edition of the daily newspaper “Die Welt” depicts Richter’s second wife Sabine in a white bathrobe and his son Theo in a striped towel, although not recognizable. Painted in his renowned style of blurring a realistic image. Gerhard Richter remarked that it reminded him of Ingres’ painting ‘The Turkish Bath’ (the picture was taken in hotel “Waldhaus” in Sils-Maria).
History of prices:
ArtPrintX.com, Ravensburg, Germany € 8.714,- February 2024
Artsation GmbH, Munich, Germany € 10.400,- June 2016
Lempertz, Cologne, Germany € 5.208,- November 2015 (hammer price)
Artsation GmbH, Munich, Germany € 10.400,- December 2014
Artsation GmbH, Munich, Germany € 7.350,- September 2013
Artsation GmbH, Munich, Germany € 5.350,- August 2013
Die Welt, Berlin, Germany September (year of issue) € 2.000,-
Extra information:
GERHARD RICHTER, Die Welt of 5 October 2012
offset newspaper
29,5 x 40 cm
edition ca 251.500
splendid condition, folded to tabloid size as shown
published by Die Welt, Berlin, Germany
inv.GRich 000-pr
UGO RONDINONE, Cigarettesandwich, 2011 DVD 52′, jewel case
edition 300
published by Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Switzerland not available
Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone examinins the psychic and emotional nature of even the most banal events that occur in real life. Since 1997, Rondinone has been making neon-lit, rainbow-colored signs from phrases he appropriates from pop songs and everyday exclamations that are joyous affirmations of love and life, including the sculpture “Hell, Yes” which spells out the title in gigantic rainbow letters on the facade of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in Manhattan’s Bowery district in New York City.
History of prices:
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Switzerland € 300,- / US$ 400.- August 2012
