Peter Fischli and David Weiss

How to Work Better

1991
Screenprint in green, on wove paper, with full margins.
I. 17 1/2 x 8 1/4 in. (44.5 x 21 cm)
S. 27 1/2 x 19 5/8 in. (69.9 x 49.8 cm)
Signed by both artists and numbered 14/36 in pencil (there were also editions in other colors), published by the artists, framed.

Estimate
$2,000 - 3,000

Sold for $2,794

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Editions & Selected Works from the Lower East Side Printshop Archives: Online Auction

4 - 11 September 2024

1
Ed Ruscha
Liberty
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $7,620
2
Derrick Adams
Game Changing
Estimate $15,000 - 25,000
Sold for $25,400
3
Hank Willis Thomas
Rich Black Specimen: #26, #460, #21, #66
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
4
Jeffrey Gibson (Choctaw/Cherokee)
THE FUTURE IS PRESENT
Estimate $12,000 - 18,000
Sold for $20,320
5
David Shrigley
You Will Not Stop Me From Singing My Song
Estimate $2,500 - 3,500
Sold for $5,080
6No Reserve
Sam Durant
Another World Is Possible
Estimate $1,000 - 2,000 •
Sold for $1,143
7
Katherine Bernhardt
Shower Power
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $8,255
8No Reserve
Molly Greene
Insinuator
Estimate $400 - 600 •
Sold for $635
9
Alex Katz
Purple Tulips 1, from Flowers
Estimate $6,000 - 9,000
Sold for $7,620
10No Reserve
Shara Hughes
Night Opening
Estimate $500 - 700 •
Sold for $445
11No Reserve
Ana Benaroya
Mother's Milk
Estimate $500 - 700 •
Sold for $381
12
Carroll Dunham
Island (K. A64)
Estimate $2,000 - 3,000
Sold for $1,207
13No Reserve
Melvin Clark
Pharoah's House
Estimate $600 - 900 •
Sold for $191
14No Reserve
Phillip Galgiani
Bump and Grind
Estimate $300 - 500 •
Sold for $191
15
Chris Martin
Wednesday Miles, from Miles Davis at the Gilmore
Estimate $1,500 - 2,500
16
Laura Owens
Untitled
Estimate $800 - 1,200
Sold for $381
17No Reserve
Hiroshi Kumagai
Air Jordan I
Estimate $300 - 500 •
Sold for $635
18No Reserve
Oli Epp
Quarantine
Estimate $800 - 1,200 •
Sold for $445
19
Peter Saul
Traffic Jam, from Greenpeace 50 Years Print Portfolio
Estimate $300 - 500
Sold for $318
20No Reserve
Takashi Murakami
Planet 66; and Planet 66: Summer Vacation
Estimate $2,000 - 3,000 •
Sold for $1,905
21No Reserve
Mr Doodle
Pretty City
Estimate $600 - 900 •
Sold for $508
22
Jeff Koons
Balloon Dog (Blue)
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $3,810
23
Deborah Kass
Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner; and Enough Already
Estimate $2,000 - 3,000
24No Reserve
Sebastiaan Bremer
Heaven’s Canopy, from To Joy
Estimate $800 - 1,200 •
Sold for $762
25No Reserve
AYA TAKANO
A Night Walk - A Pink Moon Emerged
Estimate $400 - 600 •
Sold for $318
26No Reserve
Leo Gabin
Marching Band Does It Again
Estimate $400 - 600 •
Sold for $318
27
Samuel Jablon
Untitled
Estimate $1,000 - 1,500
Sold for $762
28No Reserve
Peter Doig
Fisherman
Estimate $1,000 - 1,500 •
Sold for $1,207
29
Albert Oehlen
Baum
Estimate $1,000 - 1,500
Sold for $1,651
30
Cassi Namoda
Ernesto finds potential on the other side, from Greenpeace 50 Years Print Portfolio
Estimate $800 - 1,200
31
Claire Tabouret
Self-portrait (blue)
Estimate $800 - 1,200
Sold for $953
32No Reserve
Chloe Wise
The River is All Wet
Estimate $800 - 1,200 •
Sold for $1,016
33No Reserve
Jenny Morgan
Golden Gaze
Estimate $800 - 1,200 •
Sold for $318
34No Reserve
Julian Rosefeldt
Manifesto (Umberto Boccioni, 1910)
Estimate $2,000 - 3,000 •
Sold for $191
35No Reserve
Eric Fischl
Untitled (2 Women and a Boy)
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000 •
Sold for $1,270
36
Shinique Smith
Red Rose
Estimate $1,000 - 2,000
Sold for $1,270
37
Christina Quarles
Laid Up
Estimate $1,500 - 2,500
Sold for $953
38No Reserve
Susan Spencer
Growing Up White and Middle Class in America
Estimate $300 - 500 •
Sold for $191
39
Philip Pearlstein
Figure on Couch, from Six Lithographs Drawn from Life; Nude with Rocker; and Models and Horses
Estimate $1,500 - 2,500
40No Reserve
Mario Moore
Grisaille of Oshun
Estimate $400 - 600 •
Sold for $381
41No Reserve
Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe
Rancher
Estimate $1,000 - 2,000 •
Sold for $2,286
42No Reserve
Alison Elizabeth Taylor
Schilderachtig (Picturesque)
Estimate $800 - 1,200 •
Sold for $635
43
Jeff Sonhouse
Codependents
Estimate $1,000 - 1,500
44No Reserve
Ellen Coleman Izzo
Belly Up to the Bar V
Estimate $300 - 500 •
Sold for $127
45No Reserve
Jamea Richmond-Edwards
7 Mile Fly Girl
Estimate $300 - 500 •
Sold for $1,270
46No Reserve
Chinatsu Ban
So-Zo Pregnant, So-Zo Giving Birth
Estimate $400 - 600 •
Sold for $191
47
Marcel Dzama
Snowflake Defense
Estimate $800 - 1,200
48No Reserve
Edward del Rosario
Reformations
Estimate $300 - 500 •
Sold for $254
49No Reserve
Amy Cutler
Rug Beaters
Estimate $300 - 500 •
Sold for $445
50No Reserve
Curtis Talwst Santiago
Uncle Always Had Moves
Estimate $300 - 500 •
Sold for $318
51
Marc Chagall
L’Artiste et son modèle (Artist and Model)
Estimate $1,000 - 2,000
Sold for $1,397
52
Tomoo Gokita
Housewife
Estimate $1,500 - 2,500
Sold for $635
53No Reserve
Brian Calvin
Untitled (I Voted)
Estimate $500 - 700 •
Sold for $127
54
Nicole Eisenman
Untitled
Estimate $1,000 - 1,500
Sold for $1,080
55No Reserve
Nicole Eisenman
Crossing the Alborz
Estimate $800 - 1,200 •
Sold for $826
56No Reserve
Katherina Olschbaur
Sexy Horse
Estimate $400 - 600 •
Sold for $127
57
Nicolas Party
Double Face
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
58
Richard Prince
New Figures
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
59
Pablo Picasso
Profil de Jacqueline (Jacqueline's Profile) (A.R. 385)
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $5,334
60No Reserve
Alix du Serech
(Here is a distinctly woman's story...), from Gang Women and Legal Wives Series
Estimate $400 - 600 •
Sold for $191
61
Gary Simmons
Lineup Wall Chart, from 1993 Whitney Biennial in Seoul
Estimate $400 - 600
Sold for $254
62
Andy Warhol
Louis Brandeis, from Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century (F. & S. 230)
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $15,240
63No Reserve
Clarissa Sligh
Now It's My Turn
Estimate $300 - 500 •
Sold for $381
64No Reserve
Dread Scott
If White People Didn't Invent Air, from BOOM!
Estimate $800 - 1,200 •
Sold for $889
65
LaToya Ruby Frazier
If Everybody's Work Is Equally Important? (I)
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $4,826
66No Reserve
Darrel Ellis
Untitled
Estimate $150 - 250 •
Sold for $572
67No Reserve
Käthe Kollwitz
Selbstbildnis (Self-Portrait) (K. 171)
Estimate $300 - 400 •
Sold for $572
68No Reserve
Luis Jiménez
La Lucha (The Fight)
Estimate $600 - 800 •
Sold for $127
69No Reserve
Diane Victor
Big Bad Bed
Estimate $300 - 500 •
Sold for $191
70No Reserve
Kristen Schiele
Halloween House
Estimate $300 - 500 •
Sold for $191
71No Reserve
Nicasio Fernandez
Blooming (White)
Estimate $800 - 1,200 •
Sold for $254
72
Merce Cunningham & Allen Ginsberg
Untitled; and Mother Ghost, from 1993 Whitney Biennial in Seoul
Estimate $800 - 1,200
73No Reserve
William Villalongo
Through the Fire to the Limit
Estimate $600 - 900 •
Sold for $127
74
Robert Longo
Untitled (Janet), from Men in the Cities
Estimate $1,000 - 2,000
Sold for $1,778
75
Hannah Wilke
Hername
Estimate $1,000 - 1,500
Sold for $1,016
76
Nan Goldin
Kenny putting on his makeup, Boston
Estimate $600 - 800
Sold for $1,524
77
Nan Goldin
Simon on the Subway, NYC
Estimate $2,500 - 3,500
Sold for $3,048
78
Nan Goldin
Self-Portrait Laughing, Paris
Estimate $1,000 - 1,500
Sold for $1,397
79No Reserve
Ashley Bickerton
Just Another Shitty Day in Paradise, from Mettlesome & Meddlesome
Estimate $600 - 800 •
Sold for $1,778
80No Reserve
Karen Cunningham
Businessmen, from Commuter Series; and Asser Levy Pool, from Public Pool Series #4
Estimate $300 - 500 •
Sold for $191
81
Enoc Pérez
Fontainebleau, Miami
Estimate $1,000 - 1,500
Sold for $2,032
82
Pol Bury
Guggenheim
Estimate $300 - 500
Sold for $191
83No Reserve
Günther Förg
Gardone
Estimate $2,000 - 4,000 •
Sold for $1,270
84No Reserve
William Cordova
Untitled (lineage)
Estimate $400 - 600 •
85No Reserve
Deborah Grant
Fuck; Fucked; and More Fucked
Estimate $600 - 900 •
Sold for $191
86No Reserve
Philip Taaffe
Lizard Page
Estimate $600 - 900 •
Sold for $254
87
Ai Weiwei
BOMB
Estimate $1,000 - 1,500
Sold for $1,016
88
Richard Artschwager
Matrosen (Sailors), from Kölner Kunstmarkt 72
Estimate $500 - 700
Sold for $318
89
Richard Artschwager
Notes on a Room: two plates
Estimate $500 - 1,000
Sold for $381
90
Lorna Simpson
Van Der Zee Prop Vase, from 1993 Whitney Biennial in Seoul
Estimate $800 - 1,200
Sold for $381
91
David Levinthal
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Estimate $2,000 - 4,000
92
Hank Willis Thomas
All Lies Matter
Estimate $1,000 - 1,500
Sold for $1,651
93
Deborah Roberts
The Front Lines
Estimate $2,000 - 3,000
Sold for $3,048
94
Glenn Ligon
Untitled (Crowd/The Fire Next Time)
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
95
Kara Walker
Excerpt
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
96
Kara Walker
Untitled
Estimate $2,500 - 3,500
97No Reserve
So Yoon Lym
James
Estimate $300 - 500 •
Sold for $127
98No Reserve
Blane De St. Croix
Tree Line (Haiti and Dominican Republic Border)
Estimate $400 - 600 •
Sold for $127
99No Reserve
Meredith Monk
Impermanence
Estimate $300 - 500 •
100No Reserve
Jacob El Hanani
Untitled
Estimate $1,000 - 2,000 •
Sold for $1,397
101
Matthew Day Jackson
Metamorphosis
Estimate $2,000 - 3,000
102No Reserve
Mona Hatoum
Untitled (Brain)
Estimate $800 - 1,200 •
Sold for $1,778
103No Reserve
Anish Kapoor
Fifteen Etchings: plate 12
Estimate $800 - 1,200 •
Sold for $953
104
Jeff Wall
Rome 1
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $2,413
105
Ai Weiwei
Artist’s Hand
Estimate $2,500 - 3,500
Sold for $4,826
106
Peter Saul
Amboosh
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $3,810
107
Christian Marclay
Ring Ring Ring
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
108
Andy Warhol
Lincoln Center Ticket (F. & S. 19, R. p. 130)
Estimate $2,000 - 4,000
109
This lot is no longer available.
110
John Baldessari
8 Plants x 6 = 48: one plate (H. 96)
Estimate $1,500 - 2,500
Sold for $1,778
111
Arturo Herrera
Berlin Singers
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $3,810
112
Gerhard Richter
Aladin (P11)
Estimate $2,500 - 3,500
Sold for $3,048
113
Gerhard Richter
Ifrit (P8)
Estimate $2,500 - 3,500
Sold for $4,445
114
Damien Hirst
Kingsdown Beach, from Where the Land Meets the Sea (H13-2)
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $4,826
115No Reserve
Zao Wou-Ki
Untitled (Å. 193)
Estimate $2,000 - 4,000 •
Sold for $2,286
116
Tauba Auerbach
Plate Distortion II; and Plate Distortion III
Estimate $2,000 - 3,000
117No Reserve
Rebecca Horn
Swan Ladder (P. 40/41)
Estimate $800 - 1,200 •
Sold for $2,286
118No Reserve
Jim Lambie
Sunspots: three plates
Estimate $1,000 - 2,000 •
Sold for $445
119No Reserve
Anish Kapoor
Untitled (P. 69)
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000 •
Sold for $6,096
120
Zaha Hadid
Untitled
Estimate $1,000 - 2,000
Sold for $635
121
Damien Hirst
Untitled (Spin Painting)
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $2,413
122
Larry Bell
Fraction #311
Estimate $500 - 700
Sold for $1,016
123No Reserve
Carroll Dunham
Red Shift (K. A11)
Estimate $2,000 - 3,000 •
Sold for $1,207
124No Reserve
Amy Kao
Liminal #2
Estimate $300 - 500 •
Sold for $699
125No Reserve
Karlos Cárcamo
Metropolitan; and Jamaica
Estimate $600 - 800 •
Sold for $1,016
126
Sol LeWitt
Brushstrokes in All Directions (K. 1994.05)
Estimate $1,000 - 1,500
Sold for $2,032
127
Sam Francis
Untitled (SF-106A) (L. L108)
Estimate $700 - 1,000
Sold for $2,794
128
Sam Francis
Untitled (SFE-090)
Estimate $1,000 - 1,500
Sold for $1,524
129No Reserve
Jane Kent
Second Hand Sunshine
Estimate $400 - 600 •
Sold for $127
130
Ed Moses
Wedge Series, No. 3 - No. 7 (D. pp. 313-315)
Estimate $2,000 - 3,000
Sold for $762
131
Agnes Martin
Agnes Martin Painting and Drawings 1974-1990
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $2,540
132No Reserve
Kate Shepherd
#410 LONG RANGE BINOCULARS, Beside a Canal, from BAZOOKA JOE, VALUE 3 COMICS, Rembrandt
Estimate $300 - 500 •
Sold for $318
133
Martin Puryear
Untitled (State 2)
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $5,334
134
Various Artists
Four x Four x Four
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
135No Reserve
James Siena
The Woods
Estimate $400 - 600 •
Sold for $572
136
Edgar Negret
Estrella
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $2,540
137
Donald Judd
Untitled: one plate (S. 100)
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $3,810
138
Carlos Cruz-Diez
Untitled, from Couleur Additive (Colour Addition); [Untitled]; and [Untitled]
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $1,270
139
Carlos Cruz-Diez
Chromointerference Manipulable
Estimate $1,000 - 2,000
140No Reserve
Francisco Sobrino
Untitled
Estimate $600 - 900 •
Sold for $762
141
Donald Judd
Untitled: one plate (S. 105)
Estimate $1,000 - 2,000
Sold for $2,286
142
Ellsworth Kelly
Yellow with Dark Blue, from Suite of Twenty-Seven Color Lithographs (A. 15)
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $5,080
143
Al Held
Scholes I; and Scholes II
Estimate $1,500 - 2,500
Sold for $2,540
144No Reserve
Jonggeon Lee
Pyramid I
Estimate $300 - 500 •
Sold for $699
145No Reserve
Vik Muniz
Metaphysical Interior with Large Factory, after Giorgio de Chirico, from Pictures of Paper
Estimate $1,000 - 2,000 •
Sold for $445
146
After Pablo Picasso
Papiers Collés 1910-1914 (see Bl. 1231, see C. bks 137)
Estimate $2,500 - 3,500
Sold for $1,270
147
After Willem de Kooning
Poems by Frank O'Hara
Estimate $800 - 1,200
Sold for $508
148No Reserve
Henry Moore
Elephant Skull: plate VIII (C. 121)
Estimate $400 - 600 •
Sold for $508
149No Reserve
Carroll Dunham
At the Edge (K. A19)
Estimate $600 - 800 •
Sold for $445
150
Terry Winters
Untitled (for Trisha Brown)
Estimate $6,000 - 9,000
151
Terry Winters
Atmospheres (F. & S. 59-70)
Estimate $10,000 - 20,000
152
Richard Serra
out-of-round X
Estimate $1,000 - 2,000
Sold for $1,778
153
Daniel Arsham
Selenite Erosion Wallpaper
Estimate $1,000 - 2,000
154No Reserve
Carsten Höller
Black Canary
Estimate $500 - 1,000 •
Sold for $699
155No Reserve
Cammi Climaco
This Time In Heaven
Estimate $700 - 900 •
Sold for $508
156No Reserve
Jaime Muñoz
Madre
Estimate $800 - 1,200 •
Sold for $191
157No Reserve
Mark Dean Veca
No Quarter
Estimate $500 - 700 •
Sold for $508
158No Reserve
Angel Otero
Fish Rain
Estimate $800 - 1,200 •
Sold for $508
159No Reserve
Sue Coe
Thank You America (Anita Hill); and Those with Guns Eat First: plate 19, from The Tragedy of War
Estimate $400 - 600 •
Sold for $191
160No Reserve
David Shrigley
I Must Rest My Rampage Is Over, from You Are Special
Estimate $800 - 1,200 •
Sold for $1,905
161
Claes Oldenburg
N.Y.C. Pretzel (A. & P. 250.5)
Estimate $100 - 200
Sold for $889
162
Alexander Calder
Les Oignons (Onions; Galactic System)
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $2,540
163
Alexander Calder
Flying Colors: four plates
Estimate $2,500 - 3,500
Sold for $2,540
164No Reserve
Takashi Murakami
Melting DOB D
Estimate $1,000 - 1,500 •
Sold for $699
165
Ryan McGinness
Mother & Child (Monoprint #4)
Estimate $1,500 - 2,500
166
Loie Hollowell
Milk Fountain
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
167No Reserve
Lisa Yuskavage
The Motherfucker; and The Asspicker, from The Bad Habits
Estimate $1,000 - 2,000 •
Sold for $762
168No Reserve
Lisa Yuskavage
K.K.
Estimate $1,000 - 2,000 •
Sold for $1,905
169No Reserve
Lisa Yuskavage
Babie
Estimate $500 - 700 •
Sold for $445
170
Lisa Yuskavage
Bad Habits Facing West
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $1,905
171
William N. Copley
Man and Woman
Estimate $300 - 500
Sold for $381
172
Jeff Koons
Untitled (Girl with Dolphin and Monkey)
Estimate $9,000 - 12,000
173
Mel Ramos
Zebra (H. 88)
Estimate $1,000 - 1,500
174
Mel Ramos
Korn Kween (H. pp. 66-67)
Estimate $900 - 1,200
175No Reserve
Jim Dine
Throat, from 11 Pop Artists Volume II (M. 36)
Estimate $300 - 500 •
Sold for $318
176
Tom Wesselmann
Monica Lying Down, One Arm Up (W.P.I. P90L01)
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
177
Tom Wesselmann
Monica Sitting, One Leg on the Other (W.P.I. P90L06)
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
178
Tom Wesselmann
Monica Lying on Her Side with Scribbles (W.P.I. P90L46)
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
179No Reserve
Felipe Baeza
SK Look
Estimate $800 - 1,200 •
Sold for $572
180
Bruce Nauman
Use Me (C. 59)
Estimate $2,500 - 3,500
Sold for $3,302
181
Paul Chan
(Sexual Healing/Shift for Harassment), from Alternumerics
Estimate $1,000 - 1,500
182
Kay Rosen
The Ed Prints
Estimate $1,000 - 1,500
183No Reserve
Louise Lawler
Notes on a Room: three plates
Estimate $300 - 500 •
Sold for $762
184
Andrew Raftery
Open House: Renovated Ranch
Estimate $1,000 - 1,500
Sold for $1,524
185
Peter Fischli and David Weiss
How to Work Better
Estimate $2,000 - 3,000
Sold for $2,794
186
Jonas Wood
Bromeliad
Estimate $1,000 - 2,000
Sold for $5,334
187
Cildo Meireles
Zero Dollar: two prints
Estimate $1,000 - 2,000
188
Tom Friedman
Untitled (dollar bill, back)
Estimate $2,000 - 3,000
189
Ed Ruscha
A Collection of 10 Artist's Books
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $3,810
190No Reserve
William Powhida
Tips For Artists Who Want To Sell (new and unimproved)
Estimate $600 - 900 •
Sold for $381
191
Maurizio Cattelan
The 1:6 Scale Wrong Gallery
Estimate $1,500 - 2,500
Sold for $1,778
192
Louise Lawler
Assembled
Estimate $2,500 - 3,500
193
The Connor Brothers
What Matters in Life
Estimate $600 - 900
Sold for $1,397
194No Reserve
Jack Pierson
Bullshit
Estimate $800 - 1,200 •
Sold for $762

Editions & Selected Works from the Lower East...

4 - 11 September 2024

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Peter Fischli and David Weiss

How to Work Better

Editions & Selected Works from the Lower East Side Printshop Archives: Online Auction