Ed Kienholz (1927-1994)

For $131.00 and For $132.00

細節

Ed Kienholz (1927-1994)
Kienholz, E.
For $131.00 and For $132.00
each signed, dated and stamped with artist's thumbprint 'KIENHOLZ 69' (lower right)
watercolor, pencil and ink stamp on paper in artist's frame
each: 12 x 16 in. (30.7 x 41.9 cm.)
Executed in 1969 (2)

來源

Lee Nordness Galleries, New York.
Eugenia Butler, Los Angeles.

拍品專文

"Frustrated one day because he didn't have the right screwdriver... [Ed Kienholz] ruefully asked, 'Why can't an artist just trade for what he wants without running downtown all the time to get it?' The following day, he produced a 12 x 16-inch watercolor on rag paper with the rubber-stamped words For Nine Screwdrivers. When he saw a neighbor he knew would have the requisite screwdrivers, he traded the watercolor for the set of screwdrivers, whose value was no more than $14.30...The second part of the watercolor project traded art works for money but with an unusaual twist: Kienholz invented his own currency. A framed sheet of paper with a cash amount stamped on the paper. The series plays havoc with the market value of art works. In the artist's own words: "I kept number $1.00 to be given with number $10,000.00 thinking that someone might want both ends of the work" (R. Brooks, exh. cat., Kienholz, A Retrospective, New York, 1996, p. 140).