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Live auction artworks by Olaf Breuning / Nan Goldin / Dan Graham / Nate Lowman / Richard Phillips / Ugo Rondinone / Josh Smith / John Waters / John Baldessari and Lawrence Weiner / Peter Fischli and David Weiss /
Olaf Breuning
It's A Man's World
2008
Silver gelatin print
Edition of 6, 1/2 AP
18 x 36 inches / 45.7 x 91.4 cm
Courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
Artist website
"Inspired by the Beaux-Art Costume Ball in 1931, where a bunch of New York’s architects of the time dressed as skyscrapers. Breuning shot his version at Park Avenue Armory and added some recent buildings as well as moustaches."
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Nan Goldin
Nan on the Bowery, NYC
1978
Dye-bleach print
Signed, dated and titled on the back
Edition of 25 / AP1
20 x 24 inches / 50.8 x 61 cm
Courtesy Janine and Thomas Koerfer-Weill
"A beautiful early self-portrait of the famous artist, shot on Bowery at a time when downtown New York City was at once a dangerous place and a great living space for artists."
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Dan Graham
Two color photographs and a drawing
1967
Proposal for a Bookshop and Store
Partially Underwater in Marseille, 2007
Blue and black ball-point pen drawing
11 x 8.5 inches / 29.7 x 21 cm
and
Mafia Mansion with Swans, Deal, New Jersey
Living Room, Motel House, Staten Island, N.Y.
2006 / 1967
2 Color photographs, unique
each: 9 x 13 3/8 inches / 23 x 34 cm
Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth New York, London, Zurich
"Dan Graham’s photographs question the ways in which each space affects behavior. The Motel interior seems to perfectly match the façade of the Mafia Mansion. One of the rare drawings of Dan Graham is offered in addition, a sketching for a museum’s pavilion in Marseille, France."
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Nate Lowman
Yes, we have no bananas
2008
Ink and alkyd on canvas
16 x 20 inches / 40.6 x 50.8 cm
Courtesy the artist and Maccarone Gallery, New York
Artist website
"Named after a song that was a major hit back in 1923, six years before the Great Depression. Lowman adds the symbols of the world’s most important currencies to make an affirmative thus ironic statement on world economies."
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Richard Phillips
Solipsistica Nihilisti
2009
5 color silkscreen print
Edition, 11/25
44.5 x 31 inches / 113.03 x 78.74 cm
Courtesy the artist and Gagosian Gallery, New York
Artist website
“The silkscreen is a homage to supermodel Natasha Poly, portrayed here in combination with a trephine, one of the oldest surgical instrument for cutting out a round piece of skull bone. This work is exclusively available through charity auctions.”
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Ugo Rondinone
Moonrise
2003
Cast, Polyurethane black
Edition 25/25
6.8 inch diameter / 17.3 cm Durchmesser
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
Artist website
"The first mask the Swiss artist ever created. A crucial piece in regards of the later Moonrise series. Prehistoric and contemporary elements mingle in an unanticipated way."
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Josh Smith
Parkett Book Collage + 1 set of all available 50 issues of Parkett
2009
Mixed media, ink and collage on wood (front and back)
each work unique,
Ed. 38/XV, signed and numbered
24 x 18 x 3/4 inches / 60 x 45 x 2 cm
Courtesy of Parkett
Artist website
"Smith once compared his work to a reflection in a store window that every day puts a different thought into your head. His collages / paintings have an independent grandeur while remaining subtle and plain."
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John Waters
Visit Marfa
2003
Offset print
Edition 41 of 100
30 x 22 inches / 76.2 x 55.88 cm
Courtesy the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Artist website
"A mock advertisement for Marfa, the small town in West Texas, where Donald Judd permanently installed his foundation. Waters mobilizes the carnival poster motif to poke fun at the art hot spot."
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John Baldessari and Lawrence Weiner
The Metaphor Problem Again
2007
Diptych, 4-color lithographs
Signed and numbered, in a portfolio
Edition of 27/75 + 15 AP
24 x 27.5 inches / 61.5 x 70 cm
Courtesy Ink Tree Editions and Mai 36 Gallery, Zurich
Artist website
"The collaboration of the two long-time friends took place in Hotel Castel in Zuoz, a place known for its commitment to art, up in the seclusion of the Swiss Alps. The book and the portfolio, with their hidden jokes, testify to the artists’ joyful, humorous exchange of medium."
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Peter Fischli and David Weiss
Untitled (Funghi 06)
2006
Color Print
Signed
39.4 x 57 inches / 100 x 144.8 cm
Courtesy the artists, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich; Matthew Marks Gallery, New York; Sprüth Magers Berlin London
Artist website
"The double exposure photographs of Fischli / Weiss oscillate between beauty and triviality, coincidence and manipulation, provocation and decoration. Exposed on roll film, the final composition was eventually unveiled by the photo lab. The artists regarded the successful ones as a gift."
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