Auction 504 Parkett - The Complete Editions
Oct 31, 2023
Hitzelerstr. 2, 50968 Köln, Germany

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 82:

Ellen Gallagher
Ellen Gallagher: Ruby Dee (für Parkett 73)

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Sold for: €2,000
Start price:
800
Estimated price :
€1,000 - €2,000
Buyer's Premium: 32%
VAT: 19% On commission only
Users from foreign countries may be exempted from tax payments, according to the relevant tax regulations
Auction took place on Oct 31, 2023 at VAN HAM Kunstauktionen GmbH Co. KG
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Ellen Gallagher: Ruby Dee (für Parkett 73)
GALLAGHER, ELLEN
1965 PROVIDENCE/RHODE ISLAND

Title: Ruby Dee (for Parkett 73).
Date: 2005.
Technique: Plasticine applications on colour etching on card.
Measurement: 15 x 10 x 0,5cm.
Notation: Signed, dated and numbered (verso).
Publisher: Parkett-Verlag, Zurich (publisher).
Number: I/V.
Frame/Pedestal: Display frame.

Condition:
The work is in very good condition. Not examined out of the frame.

Outside of the edition of 30 arabic numered issues.

The model for the work was the cover of the African-American magazine "Jet" from 1963. The cover shows Ruby Dee, who was an actress, poet, playwright, journalist and civil rights activist.

With Parkett magazine.

"Gallagher is a handworking, hand laborer (.). The production of a simple, flat, engaging image is never her sole purpose. This is why she works in print, as well as in painting and in drawing. Process, layers, materials - physicality is everything to her. Flesh is a texture as much as a color. DeLuxe is collage (paper), photomontage (digital), photogravure (the process of printing from an intaglio plate, etched according to a photographic image); it is mounted, built-up and -upon by: abrasion, aquatint, burnishing, drypoint, embrossing, etching, laser cutting, stenciling, tattoo-machine engraving (yes for skin) - adding blue varnish, crystals, cut paper, toy eyeballs, white spaces, glitter, gold leaf, pomade. and this is not even the half of it."
Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, Parkett nr. 73, 2005.

Article on the work and artist from Parkett edition no. 73.

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