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Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Joseph Beuys

Schlitten (Sled)

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November 16, 11:16 PM GMT

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120,000 - 180,000 USD

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Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Joseph Beuys

1921 - 1986


Schlitten (Sled)

signed (on the sled); stamped 37 and dated 1969 (on a label affixed to the sled)

felt blanket, fabric straps with metal buckles, flashlight and fat on wooden sled

16 by 35 ½ by 13 ¼ in.

40.6 by 90.2 by 33.7 cm.

Executed in 1969, this work is number 37 from an edition of 50 plus 5 hors de commerce. 

Galerie René Block, Berlin
Galleria Lucio Amelio, Naples
Christie's London, 25 May 1995, lot 116 
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Joseph Beuys, Aktioner, Aktionen, January - February, 1971, no. 189, n.p., illustrated
Tokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art, Joseph Beuys: An Exhibition Based on The Ulbright Collection, June - July 1984, no. 48, p. 65, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Antwerp, Galerie Ronny Van de Velde, Joseph Beuys. Multiples, December 1988, no. 5 (another example exhibited)
Munich, A11 Artforum, Joseph Beuys - a Private Collection, February - April 1990, no. 11, p. 115, illustrated in color and p. 147 illustrated (another example exhibited)
Kunsthaus Zürich; Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía; Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Joseph Beuys, November 1993 - September 1994, no. 27, p. 77, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Brussels, Paleis voor Schone Kunsten and Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille, Wide White Space 1966-1976, October 1994 - May 1996, p. 269 (another example exhibited)
London, Tate Gallery, The Froelich Foundation: German and American Art from Beuys to Warhol, September - November 1996, no. 81, p. 248, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Houston, The Menil Collection and London, Tate Modern, Joseph Beuys. Actions, Vitrines, Environments, October 2004 - May 2005, no. 11, p. 47, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, The Broad (permanent collection) (another example)
Germano Celant, Beuys: Tracce in Italia, Naples, 1978, no. 29, p. 32, illustrated
Jörg Schellmann, ed., Joseph Beuys: Multiples, Catalogue Raisonné of Multiples and Prints 1965-85, Munich, 1985, no. 11, n.p., illustrated
Jörg Schellmann, ed., Joseph Beuys: Multiples, Catalogue Raisonné of Multiples and Prints 1965-85, Munich, 1992, no. 12, pp. 14-15, illustrated and pp. 52-53, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Zürich, Kunsthaus, Joseph Beuys, 1994, p. 75, illustrated
Maja Wismer, “One of Many: The Multiples of Joseph Beuys,” Art Expanded, 1958-1978, Vol. 2 of Living Collections Catalogue, Minneapolis, 2015, illustrated in color (online)
Douglas Fogle and Hannake Skerath, eds., Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection, New York, 2021, p. 96, illustrated in color and p. 413
Alisa Carroll, Art House: The Collaboration of Chara Schreyer & Gary Hutton, New York, 2016, pp. 53 and 219, illustrated in color (installed in the Four Seasons, San Francisco)