Sale: 519 / Post War / Cont. Art II, June 19. 2021 in Munich Lot 427

 

427
Joseph Beuys
Soho News, 1979.
Magazine. Offset in colors
Estimate:
€ 600 / $ 648
Sold:
€ 2,250 / $ 2,430

(incl. surcharge)
Soho News. 1979.
Magazine. Offset in colors.
Schellmann 320. Signed and numbered on the title. From an edition of 25 copies. On newsprint (double sheet). 38.5 x 28 cm (15.1 x 11 in), size of sheet.
Published by Edition Günther Ulbricht, Düsseldorf (with the stamp on the title). Pages 8 and 9 with the essay "Beuys will be Beuys" by Gerald Marzorati based on an interview with Beuys at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on January 2, 1980, in which he outlines the core ideas of his art concept, as well as with an article about the exhibition at Guggenheim Museum New York (November 2, 1979 - January 2, 1980 on pages 44/45. [EH].
• In all of Europe there is only one Joseph Beuys (Soho News p. 44).
• "In terms of scope and content, this exhibition does not only excel every European Beuys show ever, it is also a stronger response than the German artist could have ever dreamt of." (Der Spiegel, November 5, 1979, about the Beuys exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum)
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PROVENANCE: Private collection Germany (acquired directly from the artist).

EXHIBITION: Joseph Beuys: Wo ist Element 3?, Ketterer Kunst, Berlin, March 26 – May 22, 2021.

The press saw Joseph Beuys‘ invitation to be the first German artist to honored in a retrospective in New York in 1979 as a spectacular event. Beuys, who had previously been a widely controversial figure and was even called a charlatan, achieved world fame overnight. The journalists reacted accordingly. Both Soho News and Spiegel magazine had Beuys on their cover in 1979. While the journalist Gerald Marzorati of the New York magazine titled “Beuys will be Beuys”, the Spiegel asked in traditional resentment “The Greatest. World fame for a charlatan?” The collector Günther Ulbricht, Düsseldorf (stamp on the cover) published the Soho News as a multiple in an edition of 25 + V. [Eugen Blume]



427
Joseph Beuys
Soho News, 1979.
Magazine. Offset in colors
Estimate:
€ 600 / $ 648
Sold:
€ 2,250 / $ 2,430

(incl. surcharge)