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,-
LILY VAN DER STOKKER, Ja, goed!, 1994
29,7 x 42 cm
offset 4-colour print
limited edition of 15
signed, numbered, dated (verso)
published by GALERIE VAN GELDER EDITIONS, Amsterdam
€ 500,- plus € 15,- registered mail
Mechanical Reproduction, 1994
14,8 x 10,5 cm
artists: HENRY BOND & LIAM GILLICK, SYLVIE FLEURY, RICHARD HAWKINS, ARNOLD MOSSELMAN and WOLFGANG TILLMANS
17 machine produced photos, 2 pages with text, transparant celluloid cover, 20 pp.
hand numbered
edition 50 extremely rare
published by Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
€ 1.500,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered mail
Published on behalf of exhibition ‘Een goed in de weg staande tafel’ / “A table absolutely standing in the way” in Galerie van Gelder in 1994, curator Jack Jaeger.
TONY CRAGG, Untitled, 1994
each 34,5 x 39 cm
6 etchings
signed in pencil
limited edition
mint
published by Griffelkunst, Hamburg, Germany
€ 975,- plus € 32,- Track & Trace registered mail
inv.TCra 1025-pr
This series of etchings has the following titles: Things, Autumn, Current, The Foggy, Desert and Vessel.
History of prices:
K & K Auktionen, Heidelberg, Germany € 1.100,- 14 July 2023 (hammer price)
Berrenge, Berlin, Germany € 850,- 2 December 2022 (Qty 4, hammer price)
Dorotheum, Vienna, Austria € 832,- 10 October 2022 (Qty 6, hammer price)
Sturies Andreas, Düsseldorf, Germany € 950,- 14 November 2020 (hammer price)
Doebele-Kunstauktionen, Dettelbach-Effeldorf, Germany € 600,- 16 May 2020 (hammer price)
Catawiki June 2014 € 410,-
SYLVIE FLEURY
no title, 1993
100,5 x 70,5 cm
edition 200 of which 100 are signed, numbered and dated
published by Galerie van Gelder Editions, Amsterdam, Netherlands
mint
€ 300,- plus € 18,- registered mail
Galerie van Gelder Editions invites artists to come up with an idea for wrapping paper to be used in the gallery for wrapping sold art works.
History of prices:
Kunstauktionshaus Schloss Ahlden, Ahlden, Germany € 500,- 28 November 2020 (hammer price)
Galerie van Gelder Editions, Amsterdam, Netherlands € 95,- / Dfl. 200,- September 1993 (year of issue)
SYLVIE FLEURY, Slim-Fast / vanille, 1993
15 x 18 x 10 cm
screen print on wooden block
signed, numbered
edition 250
condition: very good
published by Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
€ 650,- plus € 28,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
A recurrent contamination of the masculine world and the feminine, of fashion and art or advertising is seen in the works of Sylvie Fleury. In the early nineties she showed in her first exhibition with John M Armleder and Olivier Mosset a pile of empty Coco Chanel boxes intuitively collected by her for years, because of its attractiveness as she once said. Her installations with shopping bags triggered people to call her the ‘Bag Lady’ at a certain point. Nowadays her work is described as political, but definitively her oeuvre does not lack a post-conceptual attitude at all. With the multiple ‘Slim-Fast’ she shows that the idea is very close to how the artist originally was attracted by the Coco Chanel mascara and perfume boxes, only now more rationally made with a tongue-in-cheek to Pop-art.
History of prices:
Piasa, Paris, France 27 September 2023 € 350 (hammer price)
Dorotheum, Vienna, Austria 10 October 2022 € 576,-
Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland August 1993 SFr 500,-
SYLVIE FLEURY, The Art of Survival, 1993
27 x 21 cm, 72 pp.
artist’s magazine / artist’s book,
SC, Lumbeck binding
edition unknown
published by Verlag Walther König, Cologne, Germany / Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
very good condition rare
€ 200,- plus € 18,- registered mail
This is the first catalogue of Sylvie Fleury designed as if it is a fashion magazine. Due to its Lümbeck binding and aging of the glue almost all copies collapsed into a bunch of loose pages when used. Here still in well-bound shape, hence rare.
History of prices:
Amazon.de, Germany April € 245,63
AbeBooks.de, Germany April € 219,66
Anartist-Heritage Bookseller, New York, USA April 2026 GBP 190.29
Anartist, New York, USA January 2025 € 249,-
Booklooker, € 140,- November 2022
Amazon-USA, US$ 688.- October 2022
Amazon-USA, US$ 822.- 28 May 2021
Amazon-UK, GBP 590.12 21 April 2020
Amazon-USA, US$ 794.- 19 December 2017
AP, 1993-1994
enamel door sign (name plate)
22,7 x 16,2 cm, edition 6 + 2 AP
signed, numbered, dated
published by GALERIE VAN GELDER EDITIONS, Amsterdam
€ 3.400,-
* John M Armleder made this logo composed of two letters inside a tumbled zero for AP Magazine published by Galerie van Gelder in Amsterdam. Each copy was supposed to have a glued sticker with this logo on the cover. The first and only issue has contributions of John Tremblay, Claude Closky, Sylvie Fleury and Marijke van Warmerdam. A small edition was produced as an enamel door plate. Ever since a proof of this plate is mounted next to the entrance of Galerie van Gelder. For the Basel Art Fair 1992 he initiated a co-operation called ‘AP / Associated Publishers Ecart Editions’ with the following galleries:
La Ligne d’Arrivée, 1993
21 x 9,7 cm
‘Plat du Jour’ voucher of 200 FFrs
edition of 100
signed, numbered, dated
rare
€ 185,- plus € 13,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
‘La Ligne d’Arrivée’ was a restaurant opposite Galerie Gilbert Brownstone & Cie in Paris. The voucher – here unused – could be validated by dining at the restaurant. Only ca 30 have been signed by the artist and very few have been issued, because soon the restaurant closed its doors.
History of prices:
€ 125,- Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam December 2011
€ 150,- Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam June 2016
SYLVIE FLEURY, Vital Perfection, 1993
9,3 x 27,8 x 17 cm
faux fur-lined cardboard shoe box, printed in gold on lid
signed, numbered
edition 100
published by Hervé Mikaeloff, Paris, France rare
€ 950,- plus € 32,- Track & Trace registered EU mail, Margin Scheme
This shoe box (number 19/100) was part of goup exhibition ‘Post Human’, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg / d’Este Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Collection National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, AU Sylvie Fleury
Collection MOMA, New York, USA Sylvie Fleury
History of prices:
Phillips Auctions, London, UK 7 June 2024 € 353,- (hammer price, poor condition)
Live Auctioneers-Wright, Chicago, USA 6 October 2021 € 488,- (hammer price, see condition)
