Joseph Beuys

Untitled (Vitrine)

Auction Closed

November 16, 11:16 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Joseph Beuys

1921 - 1986

Untitled (Vitrine)

signed and dated 1960-180 (on the lower edge of the paint can); signed, dated 1970 and inscribed To James Joyce (on a label affixed to the soap); signed and dated 1976 (on a label affixed to the underside of the brick); signed and dated 1969-83 (on the cardboard box)

oil on metal paint bucket, ink on 3 sheets of paper (framed), 4 bars of soap, felt disks and needles, glazed ceramic brick, felt wedge, copper-sulfate on cardboard box in painted wood, steel in glass vitrine

81 1/4 by 86 3/4 by 19 5/8 in.

206.4 by 220.3 by 50 cm.

Executed in 1969-83.

Dr. Reiner Speck, Cologne (acquired directly from the artist)
Bernd Klüser Gallery, Munich
Udo and Anette Brandhorst, Cologne
Private Collection, New York
CRG Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in May 1998 by the present owner

New York, Hirschl & Adler Modern, Joseph Beuys Ideas and Actions, November - December 1988, no. 23, pp. 36-37, illustrated in color

Alisa Carroll, Art House: The Collaboration of Chara Schreyer & Gary Hutton, New York, 2016, pp. 16, 218, illustrated in color
Douglas Fogle and Hannake Skerath, eds., Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection, New York, 2021, p. 97, illustrated in color