Richard Artschwager - Editions & Works on Paper New York Tuesday, October 24, 2023 | Phillips

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  • “They are waiting to be used. The variants can be periodically unleashed and be periodically returned to their kennel. They are portable – but once you put one in place it becomes locked into its context. What locks it in? It don’t know. Something different every time, I would Imagine.”
    —Richard Artschwager 

    Artschwager's multiples offer visual and analytical contradictions, subversively engaging simultaneously with the vernaculars of Pop, Minimalism, and Conceptualism: the Pop derivation from utilitarian objects, the Minimal application of industrial materials, and the Conceptual impulse to engage with the ideological structures of language. Twisting established dichotomies of artistic and industrial production, Artschwager blurs the line between what is faux versus real, handmade versus manufactured, functional versus useless, and ordinary object versus high art.

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      Brooke Alexander 1

    • Catalogue Essay

      Including: Clear blp, 13 3/8 x 4 3/8 x 5/8 in. (34 x 11.1 x 1.6 cm); Mirror blp, 13 3/8 x 4 3/8 x 3/4 in. (34 x 11.1 x 1.9 cm); Hair blp, 8 3/4 x 5 1/4 x 1 5/8 in. (22.2 x 13.3 x 4.1 cm); Black blp, 7 x 4 1/2 x 1 in. (17.8 x 11.4 x 2.5 cm); and Hanging blp, 7 1/8 x 3 3/8 x 3 3/8 in. (18.1 x 8.6 x 8.6 cm).

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Locations (A. 1)

1969
The complete set of five multiples, including wood, glass, Plexiglas, mirror and rubberized horsehair with formica, accompanied by a formica on wood container with Plexiglas lid.
container 15 x 10 3/4 x 5 in. (38.1 x 27.3 x 12.7 cm)
Signed and numbered 50/90 in blue ink on a label affixed to the underside of the container (there were also 18 artist's proofs), co-published by Brooke Alexander, Inc. and Castelli Graphics, New York.

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$2,000 - 3,000 

Sold for $6,985

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New York Auction 24-26 October 2023