Auction: 31st October 2023
Preview: 27.-29. October 2023
Once again Van Ham surprises with an extraordinary special sale: on 31 October 2023 the Cologne auction house will be offering the entire series of 270 works which were editioned by the international Swiss art magazine Parkett between 1984 and 2017. This sale represents the very first auction of all Parkett editions on the international market. For those interested in art this is a unique opportunity to acquire works by the most important contemporary artists, with estimated prices ranging from 200 to 500,000 euros. The museum quality of the legendary Parkett editions has already been recognised at exhibition venues of international renown, such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan.
Parkett published a total of 270 artist portraits consisting of three to five texts each by respected authors. Every one of the participating artists was actively involved in the design of the publication – from the selection of the images to the page layout – and in addition created an artwork in the form of an edition. The results were prints, sculptures, installations, media works, paintings and drawings. The list of the 234 artists in total (some of whom are represented several times) reads like a Who’s Who of contemporary art: they range from Mark Bradford, Elizabeth Peyton, Rashid Johnson, Julie Mehretu and Francis Alÿs to Katharina Fritsch, Damien Hirst, Marlene Dumas and Anish Kapoor, and through to Louise Bourgeois, Yayoi Kusama and Gerhard Richter, to name just a few.
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LOT 26:
Christian Boltanski
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Christian Boltanski: El Caso (für Parkett 22)
BOLTANSKI, CHRISTIAN
1944 Paris
Title: El Caso (for Parkett 22).
Date: 1989.
Technique: 17 black and white photographs on light card, mounted as a booklet on Depiction Size: 5cm.
Sheet Size: 8cm.
2 Notation: Signed and numbered (on the last page of the booklet).
Publisher: Parkett-Verlag, Zurich (publisher).
Number: 1/80.
Condition:
The multiple is in very good condition.
The pictures are photographed newspaper photos of brutal murders that were printed in the Spanish magazine "El Caso". "El Caso" was published from the 1950s to the 1980s.
With Parkett magazine.
"There is in the work of the artist something of the high priest and something of the charlatan. Boltanski transforms shards of nothing into art, bits of cardboard, lumps of sugar, old photos, but plays the game of showing us that his transformation is also mere illusion, that this art is also the nothing or next to nothing from which it has sprung."
Didier Semin, Parkett no. 22, 1989.
article on work and artist from Parkett edition no. 22.
Explanations to the Catalogue
