Donald Judd - Edition Schellmann: Fifty Are Better Than One London Thursday, June 6, 2019 | Phillips

Create your first list.

Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.

  • Literature

    Jörg Schellmann, ed., Wall Works, Munich/New York, 1999, pp. 95-99
    Jörg Schellmann, ed., Forty Are Better Than One, Munich/New York, 2009, pp. 176-177 and p. 402 (another example illustrated)
    Udo Kittelmann and Gabriele Knapstein, ed., Wall Works, Berlin, 2014, p. 152

  • Catalogue Essay

    The Wall Works Series

    "Increasingly the limitation of fine art editions to prints and objects did not seem to reflect the technical possibilities and the recent developments in artistic strategies and actual art production. Installation in architecture had become an important issue both in theory and artistic practice. Edition Schellmann was trying to develop an idea as to how the concept of installation in a given architectural space could be realised as an edition. The result was the Wall Works project. It celebrates the basic idea of architecture being the ‘mother, the synthesis of the arts’. From the cave drawing on, in the development of the work of art, it has been an integral part of architecture."

    - Jörg Schellmann, ed., Forty Are Better Than One, Munich/New York, 2009, p. 396

  • Artist Biography

    Donald Judd

    American • 1928 - 1994

    Donald Judd came to critical acclaim in the 1960s with his simple, yet revolutionary, three-dimensional floor and wall objects made from new industrial materials, such as anodized aluminum, plywood and Plexiglas, which had no precedent in the visual arts. His oeuvre is characterized by the central constitutive elements of color, material and space. Rejecting the illusionism of painting and seeking an aesthetic freed from metaphorical associations, Judd sought to explore the relationship between art object, viewer and surrounding space with his so-called "specific objects." From the outset of his three-decade-long career, Judd delegated the fabrication to specialized technicians. Though associated with the minimalist movement, Judd did not wish to confine his practice to this categorization.

     

    Inspired by architecture, the artist also designed and produced his own furniture, predominantly in wood, and eventually hired a diverse team of carpenters late in his career.

    View More Works

94

Untitled (Wall Project), from Wall Works

1992
Two red Plexiglas sheets, to be installed in two recesses on a white painted wall.
both Plexiglas sheets 60 x 85 cm (23 5/8 x 33 1/2 in.)
installation size variable and according to wall

Signed by Flavin Judd, Rainer Judd, and Marianne Stockebrand (Directors of the Donald Judd Estate) and numbered 10/12 in black ink on the accompanying Certificate of Authenticity (there were also 4 artist's proofs), published by Edition Schellmann, Cologne and New York. This wall work to be installed according to the artist's specifications on the certificate.

Estimate
£100,000 - 150,000 

Contact Specialist

Anne Schneider-Wilson

Head of Sale, Senior Specialist 
London
+44 207 4042

Edition Schellmann: Fifty Are Better Than One

London Auction 6 June 2019