JOSEPH BEUYS (1921-1986)
JOSEPH BEUYS (1921-1986)

Iphigenie/Titus Andronicus

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JOSEPH BEUYS (1921-1986)
Iphigenie/Titus Andronicus
signed and numbered 'Josef Beuys 30/45' (on the label)
Photopositives and negatives on film, stamped 'Braunkreuz' with brown oil paint, and tape between two glass plates, in artist's steel frame with felt
28.3/8 x 21.7/8 x 2in. (72 x 55.5 x 5cm.)
Executed in 1985, this work was published by Edition Schellmann, Munich & New York, in an edition of 45 (IX & 5 AP)
Literature
J. Schellmann (ed.), "Joseph Beuys. Multiples. Catalogue Raisonné of Multiples and Prints 1965-1985" (6th edition), Munich/New York 1985, no. 395 (another from the edition illustrated).
J. Schellmann (ed.), "Joseph Beuys, Multiples, Catalogue Raisonné of Multiples and Prints 1965-1985" (8th edition), Munich/New York 1997, no. 523, p. 381 (another example illustrated in colour).

Lot Essay

The photos used for this work were taken by Ute Klophaus during the action "Iphigenia/Titus Andronicus" at the "Experimenta 3", Frankfurt, on 29/30 May 1969.

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