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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 5, 2019 | Dorotheum | Vienna | Contemporary Art I | 234 | $****** - ****** | "Sailor" | |||
Nov 22, 2016 | Dorotheum | Vienna | Contemporary Art, Part I | 775 | $****** - ****** | Sailor |
Works on Paper
54.5 x 83 cm (21.46 x 32.68 in)
gouache on sheet
titled
Private Ownership (friend of the artist), Vienna - directly from Franz West.
titled, gouache on a sheet (a program?) Printed on both sides, which was folded multiple times, the front side reads: racetrack express poster, 54.5 x 83 cm, framed
The German word for sailor is ambiguous and is therefore a term for someone urinating.
Registered:
Franz West Private Foundation Archive, Vienna
Provenance:
Private Ownership, Vienna - directly from Franz West.
The early collages do not really have any expression on their face, they are partly in an expression of great oppression, I was never really convinced by Freud and the theory that one's entire life stems from universal sexual roots - every door a phallus and so on - and the collages so mock this too ...
Franz West in conversation with Georg Gröller, 23.9.2011
From: Franz West, Where is my eighth ?, Museum of Modern Art Foundation Ludwig, Vienna, 2013, Publisher of the bookstore Walther König, Cologne
