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GERHARD RICHTER, Kerze [1988] – Goslar

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GERHARD RICHTER, ‘Kerze’, n.d. [1988 Goslar Kerze]
89,5 x 94,5 cm / 35.2 x 37.2 inches offset
signed, edition 250
published by Verein zur Förderung moderner Kunst / Mönchehaus-Museum für moderne Kunst, Goslar, Germany
sold

still available: signed poster with text in very attractive high quality frame. Ref. Goslar Kerze, text, framed

Gerhard Richter’s Goslar Kerze is a reproduction of a painting called “Kerze” (1982), although image mirrored. Originally this motiv was used for a poster designed by the artist announcing his solo exhibition in Mönchehaus-Museum für moderne Kunst in Goslar in 1988.

 

 

In 2004 Süddeutsche.de Neueste Nachrichten announced a sudden appearance of Gerhard Richter’s ‘Kerze’ signed with the names Joseph Beuys and Georg Baselitz. “At that time I signed for fun also with Beuys and Baselitz”. This was not done as a provocation, but more in a spirit of “foolhardiness”.

 


Gerhard Richter signed with ‘Beuys’ and ‘Baselitz’.

The painter Gerhard Richter said he signed with names such as Beuys and Baselitz on early offset prints ‘just for fun’. He confessed this in the latest edition of “Monopol” magazine, published by Florian Illies. In 1988 Gerhard Richter signed 250 copies of his offset print ‘Kerze I’ at a price of 50 marks each, on behalf of the ‘Verein zur Förderung moderner Kunst’ in Goslar.
A few prints now popped up that show a completely different signature. Richter, who is now considered the most expensive German artist alive, said: ‘Back then I also signed with Beuys and Baselitz on them, out of burlesqueness.’ This was not a provocation, it was more “overconfidence”

Richter’s modest comment on “Kerze I” that was sold at Sotheby’s in New York last May for $ 26,400: ‘Of course, $ 26,000 is at least $ 25,000 too much.’

Süddeutsche Zeitung, 29.09.2004

 

 

History of prices:
Mönchehaus-Museum für moderne Kunst, Goslar, Germany    DM 800,- December 1988
Auction House Ketterer Kunst, Munich, Germany       € 7.500,- November 2011

ROB SCHOLTE, Mens erger je niet! / Ne l’en fais pas!, 1988

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ROB SCHOLTE, Mens erger je niet! / Ne l’en fais pas!, 1988
300 x 200 cm
hand knotted carpet with white tassels
signed, numbered and dated on linen cloth
edition 15
mint
published by Equador Production, Brussels, Belgium
€ 9.500,-
inv.RSchol 394-pr

RScholte1988-carpet.mensergerjeniet_certificate600

 

history
Installation of this carpet (version with black tassels) at Ranbir Singh/Petra Grunert’s home in Brussels, Belgium, in 1990
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DAVID ROBILLIARD, Old Flames are Dead Matches, 1987

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DAVID ROBILLIARD, Old Flames are Dead Matches, 1987
4 x 5,6 x 0,6 cm
matchbox, matches with coloured heads
signed and dated in print
edition unknown
published by Friedman-Guinness Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
mint condition
rare
each € 195,- plus € 15,- registered mail Trace & Track
inv.DRob 1160_1161-pr

 

David Robilliard (1952-1988) was a self-taught painter and poet. He shared a studio with Andrew Heard and met Gilbert & George in 1979 who called him their favourite poet. Later on he became one of their models and appeared as the angry young man in the film “The World of Gilbert & George” made in 1981. His poetical one-liners were super fluently present in his paintings and his poetry was performed frequently by the group The Robilliards, Stephen Chamberlain, and Mental Mary who put Robilliard’ s texts into songs.

LAWRENCE WEINER, Ab ovo usque ad mala, 1987

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LAWRENCE WEINER, Ab ovo usque ad mala, 1987
diameter dinner plate: 26,5 cm
porcelain dinnerware, 4 parts
hand signed on certificate, numbered and also signature baked in porcelain
edition 250 + 10 AP + 5 HC
pristine
published by Fodor Museum, Amsterdam
€ 680,-plus € 32 Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.LW 000-pr

 

‘Ab ovo’ (Latin: “from the origin, the egg”) is a reference to one of the twin eggs from which Helen of Troy was born. The eggs were laid by Leda after mating with Zeus disguised as a swan. As a metaphor the words refer to the beginning of something ominous; had Leda not lain the egg, Helen would not have been born, so Paris could not have eloped with her, so there would have been no Trojan War. This expression is distinct from the longer phrase ‘ab ovo usque ad mala’ (Latin: “from the egg to the apples”) which appears in Horace’s Satire 1.3. It refers to the course of a Roman meal, which often began with eggs and ended with fruit. Here obviously Lawrence Weiner understood the Latin phrase as the similar American English phrase ‘from soup to nuts’.

CESARE DA SESTO, Leda and the Swan, ca 1506-1510
In ‘Leda and the Swan’ Helen’s birth is depicted, painted after a lost painting by Leonardo da Vinci. Helen and Clytemnestra are shown emerging from one egg, Castor and Pollux from another.

TAKAKO SAITO, Ein Buch des Mikadobuchs, 1986

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TAKAKO SAITO, Ein Buch des Mikadobuchs, 1986
12,5 x 15,5 x 1,7 cm
unique series of 20
book and tooth pick in wooden box
not available; ask for details

The whole edition of ‘Ein Buch des Mikadobuchs’ forms a stack of paper sheets. Out of these asymmitrical cut outs 20 stabbed book blocks have been made, each ca 9 x 8 cm in size. The white silk paper pages are bound with a hand coloured cut off Mikado pin, to which a loose hand coloured tooth pick has been added. There is an original pencil drawing on top of each wooden box showing in red colour pencil the part, bound as book, of this Mikado puzzle book.

GERHARD RICHTER, Spiegel, 1986

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GERHARD RICHTER, Spiegel, 1986
21 x 29,8 cm
mirror glass on cork plate
edition 100 + XVII
signed, numbered, dated
published by Jahresgabe des Kunstvereins für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany

sold

 

History of prices:
Artax Kunsthandel, Düsseldorf, Germany € 1.800,- October 2005
Mo-Art Gallery, Amsterdam € 2.400,- November 2005
Van Ham Auktionen, Cologne, Germany € 2.375,- June 2012 at auction 311 – Lot 856