MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM, Klok, 1995
height ca 40 cm, different heights
bronze, ceiling clamp, electric device
series of 12 unique doorbells, cast in different pitches
Collection Kees van Gelder
‘Marijke van Warmerdam could be the very founder of Reaction Art, i.e. context triggers her imagination. The idea of making a school bell in the form of a carillon with two melodies struck Van Warmerdam as a good alternative to the piercing sound of the bell that normally rings out across the schoolyard. She invited composer Jeff Hamburg to make one melody for the start of lessons and another for when school ends. From there in the context of her first commercial gallery show in Amsterdam in 1995 she decided to turn the gallery’s doorbell into a doorbell bell creating a very deep sound in the building when visitors rang it.’ september 2012 KvG
MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM, ‘Vuilnisbak’, 1995
65 x Ø 35 cm
zinc dustbin, gold leaf, varnish
signed, dated, numbered
edition 20
p.o.r.
‘We use a dustbin every day and half our lives end up in it.’ Based on this idea, the artist felt it was time to place dustbins on a pedestal by providing them with a layer of gold leaf.
MARIJKE VAN MARMERDAM, Pannenkoek, 1995
176 x 117 cm
screen print on paper, aluminum
edition 50 only few copies left
€ 9.500,- excluding crating and transport
MARIJKE VAN WARMERDAM, La Fille aux Crêpes, 1995
13,6 x 20,6 cm
paper on aluminum
edition 10 + 2 AP
published by the artist
During the opening days of the Venice Biennale 1995 Marijke van Warmerdam was named ‘the girl with the pancakes’ by Didier Vermeiren, because of her contribution in the catalogue. For her first Dutch solo exhibition (in Galerie van Gelder) in 1995 she used this nickname as the title of the exhibition, beside her own name. With the edition La fille aux crêpes she sought to raise that ambiguity once again.
VICTOR VASERELY, Rosenthalkarte, n.d. [ca 1995]
16 x 11,5 cm
printed ceramic postcard, pencil, plastic support, paper cushion, beauty box + original Rosenthal mail wrapping; complete as issued
edition unknown
published by Rosenthal GmbH, Selb, Germany
pristine condition (unused)
€ 120,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.VVa 000-pr
History of prices:
eBay-shop6zip9, Cologne, Germany January 2025 € 149,-
Galeria Tarquinia. Los Lagos, Chile 11 October 2022 € 750,-
eBay-armonia24, Planegg, Germany 11 October 2022 € 99,-
Catawiki, Assen, Netherlands 20 December 2018 € 310,- (hammer price)
RICHARD PRINCE, ‘I never had a penny to my name, so I changed my name.[1985]’, 1994
10,5 x 15 cm signed, dated
€ 225,- plus € 12,- Track & trace regsitered EU mail
inv.BF-storage.card
This postcard, here signed and dated, is a reproduction of a Richard Prince Joke painting.
Additional information
Remarkably, a shadow line in between the two parts of the reproduced painting has been replaced by a designer’s cut on the postcard. This makes a white line bluntly separating the left from the right section.
Coll. Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
inv.BF-storage.card
LOUISE BOURGEOIS, Untitled, 1994
each 92,7 x 71 cm / 36 x 28 inches
hand coloured intaglio print
edition 65 (black and white) and edition 35 (red)
signed, numbered
published by The Paris Review, New York, USA
not available
Louise Bourgeois made sculptures in wood, steel, stone and cast rubber and used drawing and printing as a tool of artistic expression, often organic in form and sexually explicit, emotionally aggressive yet witty, covered many stylistic bases. But from first to last they shared a set of repeated themes centered on the human body and its need for nurture and protection in a frightening world; protection often translated into images of shelter or home.
History of prices:
each US$ 3,500.- September 2012
DIETER ROTH, Quick, 1965/1994
20 x 32 x13 mm
mini book, plastic box, folded stencil ca A5, signed, dated: 1965/94
edition 45 + 105
published by Boekie Woekie, Amsterdam 1994
excellent condition
€ 785,- + € 12,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.DRot 000-pr
Artist book originally published by Rudolf Reiser in 1965 in an edition 150. In 1994 Rudolf Zwirner / Galerie Rudolf Zwirner in Cologne found one day a shoe box in his storage with left-overs of the edition. He asked Walter Koenig / Buchhandlung Walther Koenig if he was interested in these books. The latter contacted the artist who suggested that he could take the shoe box with the books to Boekie Woekie artist’s Bookshop in Amsterdam for a revival of this project, once started in 1965. Dieter Roth wanted to have a little container for the book, which was supplied by the bookshop. In this way the remaining 105 copies which remained unsold, were re-issued in Amsterdam in 1994, signed and dated ‘1965/94’ by Roth on the front cover, supplied with a wrap-around information sheet (apart from Dutch text, with stenciled handwriting of the artist) in Icelandic, German (recto), English and Dutch (verso); together with a small plastic box.
The artistic practice of Dieter Roth (Swiss, born in Germany, 1930–1998) encompassed everything from painting and sculpture to film and video, but it is arguably through his editioned works—prints, books, and multiples—that he made his most radical contributions. These experiments include the use of organic materials in lieu of traditional mediums, including book-sausages filled with ground paper in place of meat, and multiples of plastic toys mired in melted chocolate, as well as a dazzling array of variations on printed postcards. Here the magazine Quick was cut and used to the smallest book he ever made.
History of prices:
Koller, Switzerland 3 December 2025 € 428,- (hammer price)
Zwiggelaar Auctions, Amsterdam 6 December 2024 € 1.100,- (hammer price)
Querido Antiquariat, May 2024 € 350,-
Boekie Woekie, Amsterdam September 2013 € 450,-
Boekie Woekie, Amsterdam July 2012 € 220,-
