BARBARA KRUGER, I shop therefore I am, 1990
43,9 x 27,3 x 10,7 cm / 16 1/2 x 11 inches
edition 9000
offset in black and red, paper shopping bag
published by Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany, 1990
excellent and close to mint condition
€ 1.000,- plus € 24,- registered mail Track & Trace
inv. BKru 000-pr
History of prices:
Bartlett Auctions Inc., Canada November 2025 € 983 (hammer price)
MLTPL, Hamburg, Germany January 2025 € 2.000
Artsy-MLTPL, Hamburg, Germany February 2024 € 2.200 (Make an offer)
Leslie Hindman Inc., Chicago, USA 19 July 2021 € 2.103 (hammer price)
Caviar20, Toronto, Canada 18 April 2021 € 1.794
Caviar20, Toronto, Canada 2 July 2020 CAD$ 1,950.- (€ 1.275,-)
Artcurial, Paris 16 May 2018 € 3.250
D. & E. Lake Ltd., Toronto, Canada 22 December 2017 US$ 770.-
Galerie & Antiquariat Gerhard Zähringer, Zürich, Switzerland 12 September 2017 US$ 415,-
Artnet.com / Deborah Ripley estimate: 28 August 2012 US$ 700-800.-
Harlowe-Powell Auction Gallery 15 October 2011 US$ 500.-
LAWRENCE WEINER, Stars don’t stand still in the sky, 1990
27,7 x 22 x 2 cm / 10 6/8 x 8 5/8 x 1/16 inches
enamel on metal
edition 60
published by Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, USA
not available
A.R. PENCK, I am ar. penck, 1989 – English version
30 cm x 38 cm
leporello, screenprint
size unfolded 30 x 453,5 cm
edition 100 + 20 AP
signed, numbered
published by Aschenbach Gallery, Amsterdam mint, uncommon in this impeccable condition
€ 500,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.APen 157-pr
leporello verso:
History of prices:
Bromer Booksellers, Boston, USA – (English version) US$ 1,045.- August 2022 (poor condition)
Ketterer Rare Books, Hamburg, Germany € 240,- 22 November 2016 (condition unknown)
Versandantiquariat Elke Rehder, Barsbüttel, Germany – (German version) € 480,- October 2012
Added information:
Artist’s book “I am ar. penck” was also issued in a German version.
A.R. PENCK, I am ar. penck, 1989 – German version
30 cm x 38 cm
screenprint
size unfolded 30 x 453,5 cm
edition 100 + 20 AP
signed, numbered
published by Aschenbach Gallery, Amsterdam
KRISTJÁN GUDMUNDSSON, Drawing, 1989
38 x 18 x 4 cm
solid graphite, paper
signed, numbered, dated
edition of 12
very rare
Galerie van Gelder Editions, Amsterdam, Netherlands
€ 4.800,-
’24’, 1989
Ø 10 cm, edition of 24
chrome metal, black cardboard box
engraved J.A. 19/24
published by ECART Edition, Geneva, Switzerland
€ 1.950,- plus € 13,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.JMA 000-pr
De Slagersvriend, number 3, 1989
32,6 x 43,6 x 5,8 cm
wooden case, green velvet interior with lettering in gold, content: original photos by Rineke Dijkstra, Koen Wessing, Willem Diepraam, Johan van der Keuken, Eli Content, a.o.
signed, numbered
edition 24
published by Eli Content, Amsterdam
B. WURTZ, Survival, 1989
10,2 x 14 x 0,6 cm
invitation card, hand stamped on cardboard
hand signed and numbered
edition 1045, here nr 13/1045
published by Feature, New York, USA
splendid condition
rare
€ 220,-
inv.BWur 851
CARSTEN HÖLLER, Zukunft ist wichtiger als Freizeit., 1989
5,4 x 4,9 x 0,6 cm
2 match books, vintage colour photo (8,8 x 13,1 cm)
edition 5000
hand out, published by the artist
mint condition
each € 130,- plus € 15,- Track & Trace EU registered mail
inv.CHoe 249
Carsten Höller was flabbergasted by Helmut Kohl’s speech at the Deutschen Ingenieurtag on 26th of May 1987 given in Munich, Germany: “…Wer über die Zukunft unserer Gesellschaft mitentscheiden will, tut gut daran, dies nicht nur in der unbeständigen Aufgeregtheit des Zeitgeistes zu tun, sondern mit Nachdenklichkeit und Besonnenheit.”
“…Einer Gesellschaft, in der für viele die Freizeit immer mehr zum wichtigsten Wert wird, ist schwer verständlich zu machen, dass Zukunft wichtiger ist als Freizeit und dass Zukunft ohne Anstrengungen nicht gesichert werden kann.”
The idea that a future with efforts or even hard labour, i.e. ‘Anstrengungen’, is more important than leasure time made the artist decide to appropriate the slogan of German politician Helmut Kohl.
SIGMAR POLKE, Untitled, 1989
98,5 x 69 cm / 38.5 x 27 inches
screen print on Schoellershammer 250 grams/m²
signed, edition 940
excellent condition
published by Griffelkunst Vereinigung, Hamburg, Germany
€ 880,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace EU registered mail
inv.SPol 000-pr
Sigmar Polke was the practicioner of large-scale works whose interest in cartoon and mass media was once called Capitalist Realism in Germany, and whose intensely varied marks yielded a lifelong inventiveness with form, media and chance.
The screen print edition Untitled 1989 of the Griffelkunst Vereinigung is part of the MoMA Print Collection, New York, USA.
History of prices:
Jeschke Jádi Auctions, Berlin, Germany 13 December € 600 (hammer price, poor condition)
Ketterer Kunst, Hamburg, Germany 24 May 2025 € 550 (hammer price)
Van ham Kunstauktionen, Cologne, Germany 9 April 2025 € 800 (hammer price, poor condition))
Antiquariat Querido, Düsseldorf, Germany March 2025 € 1.300
Grisebach Auktionen, Berlin, Germany 18 August 2023 € 1.143
Nosbüsh & Stucke, Berlin, Germany 13 May 2023 € 800 (hammer price)
1st Dibs, Hamburg, Germany, May 2022 € 3.400
Van Ham Kunstauktionen, Cologne, Germany, 6 February 2020 € 1.000 (hammer price)
Jetschke-Van Vliet, Berlin, Germany, November 2020 € 900 (hammer price)
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
