Franz West *
(Vienna 1947–2012)
“sailor”, c. 1975, titled, gouache on a sheet (a programme?) printed on both sides, which was folded multiple times, the front side reads: rennbahn express poster, 54.5 x 83 cm, framed
The German word for sailor is ambiguous and is also a term for someone urinating.
Registered:
Franz West Private Foundation Archive, Vienna
Provenance:
Private Ownership (friend of the artist), Vienna - directly from Franz West.
The early collages do not really form a unified whole at all... To my eye, they are partly an expression of great oppression, but also partly an expression of mockery, often with a certain amount of cheerfulness and lightness as well... I was never really that convinced by Freud and this theory that one’s entire life stems from universal sexual roots - every door a phallus and so on - and the collages also mock this too...
Franz West in conversation with Georg Gröller, 23.9.2011
From: Franz West, Wo ist mein Achter?, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, 2013, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne
Specialist: Mag. Elke Königseder
Mag. Elke Königseder
+43-1-515 60-358
elke.koenigseder@dorotheum.at
05.06.2019 - 17:00
- Realized price: **
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EUR 60,300.-
- Estimate:
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EUR 40,000.- to EUR 60,000.-
Franz West *
(Vienna 1947–2012)
“sailor”, c. 1975, titled, gouache on a sheet (a programme?) printed on both sides, which was folded multiple times, the front side reads: rennbahn express poster, 54.5 x 83 cm, framed
The German word for sailor is ambiguous and is also a term for someone urinating.
Registered:
Franz West Private Foundation Archive, Vienna
Provenance:
Private Ownership (friend of the artist), Vienna - directly from Franz West.
The early collages do not really form a unified whole at all... To my eye, they are partly an expression of great oppression, but also partly an expression of mockery, often with a certain amount of cheerfulness and lightness as well... I was never really that convinced by Freud and this theory that one’s entire life stems from universal sexual roots - every door a phallus and so on - and the collages also mock this too...
Franz West in conversation with Georg Gröller, 23.9.2011
From: Franz West, Wo ist mein Achter?, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, 2013, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne
Specialist: Mag. Elke Königseder
Mag. Elke Königseder
+43-1-515 60-358
elke.koenigseder@dorotheum.at
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| Auction: | Post-War and Contemporary Art I |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
| Date: | 05.06.2019 - 17:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 25.05. - 05.06.2019 |
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