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.
LOT 69:
Sylvie Fleury
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Sylvie Fleury: His Mistress' Toy (für Parkett 58)
FLEURY, SYLVIE
1961 Geneva
Title: His Mistress' Toy (for Parkett 58).
Date: 2000.
Technique: Ladies' slipper in European size 37, moulded from polyurethane, with integrated noisemaker (squeaking) on Depiction Size: 11,5cm.
Sheet Size: 17,5cm.
Notation: Signed, numbered and inscribed (in cast) under the sole.
Publisher: Parkett-Verlag, Zurich (publisher).
Number: 4/99.
Condition:
The multiple is in very good condition and is fully functional.
The copies 1-50 of the edition are left shoes, copies 51-99 are right shoes.
With Parkett magazine.
"Sylvie Fleury's 'studio work' thus takes place in all the various realms of social added-value production and fetishization, and she whirls together - codes pertaining to fashion, art, high and low culture, models of male and female self-configuration - appropriating and playing with self-images, life-models, and forms of existence in styling and manner that in effect pulverizes every last hierarchy of sex, class, and genre."
Beatrix Ruf, Parkett no. 58, 2000.
Article on the work and artist from Parkett edition no. 58.
Explanations to the Catalogue

