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 34:
Olaf Breuning
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Olaf Breuning: Lemon Pig (für Parkett 71)
BREUNING, OLAF
1970 SCHAFFHAUSEN, SWITZERLAND
Title: Lemon Pig (for Parkett 71).
Date: 2004.
Technique: Polystyrene, painted and coloured plastic.
Measurement: 25 x 23 x 31cm.
Notation: Signed and numbered (at the downside).
Publisher: Parkett-Verlag, Zurich (publisher).
Number: 1/60.
Condition:
At the raspberry nose a small element is missing. Otherwise in very good condition.
Enclosed with this art work is a glue tube as well as a writing by the artist containing the information that parts that are falling off should be glued anew with the glue.
With Parkett magazine.
"The subject matter is of little importance, and ultimately, what is on view matters just a little. It is always the same story: all images are of equal value, all scenarios are possible. Breuning's motto encapsulates it: 'Whatever.' His works are extraordinary catalysts for interpretation, powerful scenario-machines, intriguing and visually fascinating tableaux, but at the end of the tunnel, the message is clear and unequivocal: 'Whatever.'"
Marc-Olivier Wahler, Parkett no. 71, 2004.
Artikel zu Werk und Künstler aus Parkett Edition Nr. 71.
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