CINDY SHERMAN, Woman in Pool, 2007 [XL beach towel]

CINDY SHERMAN
Woman in Pool, 2007
print on huge beach towel, tag, plastic envelope
178 x 152,5 cm / 70 x 60 inch
original wrapping as issued
mint
produced by Works on Whatever
€ 450,- plus € 32,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.CShe 000

History of price:
eBay-FTRInternational, Daejeon, South Korea February 2025 US$ 400,-
eBay-TheArteryFineArt, Miami, USA May 2024 US$ 1,210.- (make offer)
eBay-TheArteryFineArt, Miami, USA December 2022 US$ 1,000.- (make offer)

FISCHLI & WEISS, Untitled (Mushroom), 2006

PETER FISCHLI and DAVID WEISS, Untitled (Mushroom), 2006
50 x 60 cm / 20 24 inches
photograph
edition 120
recto: signed, dated, numbered

Untitled (Mushroom) is taken from a series of photographs of ferns, fungi, flowers, insects, grasses and undergrowth. 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 maybe not, rewinding the film, and shooting again on the same roll of film. The result is a kaleidoscopic world of double-vision. A kind of what they called “concentrated daydreaming”—real-time glimpses into daily life in Zurich: a mountain sunrise, a restaurant chef in his kitchen, sanitation workers, a bicycle race, and so here mushrooms in nature.

 

History of prices:
Counter Editions, London, England    €  2.500,- / GBP 2,000.- September 2012
Auctionata Inc., New York, USA € 1.916,- / US$ 2,400.- November 2014

YANN SÉRANDOUR, Helvetica as Metallica, 2006

Helvetica as Metallica, 2006
wood cut print
49 x 59 cm
edition 20
numbered, signed
printed by David Liaudet, Esbam, Le Mans, France

The inversion of two extremely opposed visual identities. Helvetica is a sans serife font created in 1957 by Swiss graphic designer Max Miedinger (1910–1980) for the Haas Type Foundry in Basel. Metallica is an American heavy metal group formed in 1981 in Los Angeles.

OLIVIER MOSSET, wallpaper, 2006

OLIVIER MOSSET, wallpaper, 2006
53 x 100,5 cm / 20.86 inches x 11 yards
edition 100
published by Wallpaper by Artists, Lyon, France
extremely rare
mint condition
Private collection, Amsterdam
Margin Scheme

With this plain yellow wallpaper Olivier Mosset continues his exploration of monochromes, a smooth manufactured plane with no more than one colour and its materiality. Although this wallpaper too is meant to be attached to a wall creating a monochrome colour field, here the roll could be looked at as a monochrome sculpture by Olivier Mosset. As a kind of DIY edition quite a few rolls have been used to create a monochrome wall in yellow by Olivier Mosset. Hence quite uncommon.
inv.OM 31

EDWARD RUSCHA, City Space, 2006

EDWARD RUSCHA, City Space, 2006
23.75 x 19.75 inches
colour aquatint with sugar lift flat bite and hard ground etching
edition 30
published by Crown Point Press, San Francisco, USA
not available

Edward Ruscha seems to strip down traffic signs and in general gives order to the barrage of mass media-fed images that assault us on a daily basis. His early career as a graphic artist continues to strongly influence his aesthetic and thematic approaches, as may be shown here in City Space.

History of price:
Crown Point Press, San Francisco, USA € 5,000.- March 2010

EDWARD RUSCHA, Your Space #2, 2006

EDWARD RUSCHA, Your Space #2, 2006
29.75 x 29 inches
edition 30
colour aquatint with sugar lift flat bite and hard ground etching
published by Crown Point Press, San Francisco, USA
not available

At the age of 18, Edward Ruscha intended to become a commercial painter but found himself drawn to fine art, over time being shaped by three influences: Marcel Duchamp, Pop art, and the movies. Meeting Duchamp when the Pasadena Art Museum hosted the French conceptual artist’s first U.S. show, Ruscha was especially affected by his use of readymade objects and imagery, rendered unfamiliar through unexpected titles or text. He says: ‘When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like flowers in a vase; I just happened to paint words like someone else paints flowers. It wasn’t until later that I was interested in combinations of words and making thoughts, sentences, and things like that.’

History of price:
Crown Point Press, San Francisco, USA € 5,000.- February 2010

FRED TOMASELLI, Guilty, 2005

FRED TOMASELLI, Guilty, 2005
13 x 13 inches
inkjet print, perforated archival paper
edition 100, signed, numbered
published by James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA December 2012

For his works on paper Fred Tomaselli saves New York Times articles and defaces them with paint because some articles have made him angry. Other works on paper utilize the grid form with brightly painted sections and were taken from LSD tabs which usually come in quarter inch perforated squares.
Fred Tomaselli: “In my collages, I use all these images that are made by others. They come through my hands and they end up being something else. You could call me the conductor of these images. There’s something similar about how newspapers operate, with their editors, fact-checkers, photographers, and writers all coming together to spotlight certain things and omit others. They try to present themselves as objective entities, but they are anything but that. I love the idea that in my work I’m just another subjective voice in this subjective world of the news. I become another editor, imposing my editorial acumen.”

MARLENE DUMAS / MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM, Lucy / Lucia, 2005

Photo: K. van Gelder, Amsterdam

MARLENE DUMAS
Lucy, 2005
lithograph
edition 25
signed, dated + catalogue signed by both artists
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MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM
Luciaaaa!, 2005
lithograph, gold leaf
edition 25
signed, dated + catalogue signed by both artists
published by Walther Koenig Buchhandlung, Cologne, Germany
2 parts in linen covered cardboard triptych box
 

Photo: K. van Gelder, Amsterdam

Caravaggio’s painting Sepulture of Santa Lucia, which hangs in the Regional Museum of Palazzo Bellomo in Syracuse, prompted Marlene Dumas and Marijke van Warmerdam to make works on the legend of martyr Santa Lucia. Both ‘Lucia’ of Dumas and ‘Luciaaaa!’ of Van Warmerdam is a reproduction in high quality print of one of the works they made for their duo exhibition ‘Con vista al celestiale’ in Syracuse.
Marijke van Warmerdam thought that Lucia’s calling to God and God’s calling to Lucia could best be expressed with the aid of a Jacob’s ladder. She says: ‘A Jacob’s ladder descends from heaven and God calls: “Luciaaaa!” I placed her name in gold letters upside-down on the print, actually as seen through the eyes of God.’

Photo: K. van Gelder, Amsterdam

History of prices:
Phillips, London, UK € 1.145,- 23 September 2025 (hammer price)
Sotheby’s, Amsterdam 23 May 2007 € 5.040,- / $ 6,795.- (incl. premium)
Phillips, New York, USA 1 December 2007 US$ 3,750.-