Asta: 541 / Contemporary Art Day Sale del 09 giugno 2023 a Monaco di Baviera Lot 196

 

196
Donald Judd
Untitled, 1961-1963.
Woodcut in azure
Stima:
€ 15,000 / $ 16,200
Risultato:
€ 21,590 / $ 23,317

( commissione inclusa)
Untitled. 1961-1963/ 1969.
Woodcut in azure.
Jitta/Schellmann 73. Signed and with the date "4/6/69", the number "# 2/2" and inscribed with, among others, "13-R". Once more inscribed with the motif number "13-R" on the reverse. One of 2 copies aside from an edition of 12. On firm paper. 64 x 40.5 cm (25.1 x 15.9 in). Sheet: 77,5 x 55,9 cm (30,5 x 22 in).
From an edition of 12 woodcuts.
Printed by Roy C. Judd and published by the artist. [JS].
• Particularly fine document of American Minimal Art, of which Judd has been the main protagonist since the 1960s.
• Rich de-luxe copy, published by the artist aside from the edition of 12 copies published by Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich.
• Very rare. To date only two other copies of this motif have been offered on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).
• The 13 parallelogram pictures, which Judd made between 1961 and 1963, and of which he also made 26 laterally reversed woodcuts, are key works of Judd's Minimal-Art
.

PROVENANCE: Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York.
Private collection Northern Germany (acquired from the above in 2005).

"In the years 1961-1963 an impressive series of 26 woodcuts was created. It consists of 13 images and their respective mirror images. All are printed in cadmium red. Twelve blocks are then printed again in cerulan blue (cat. no. 37- 74). The picture is no longer a rectangle with horizontals and verticals. It is a parallelogram—the general class of forms in which the rectangle is a specific variant of form. In each print, the parallelogram has the same dimensions, is placed at the center of the picture and is articulated by vertical lines demarcated by a line that runs parallel to the bottom edge of the parallelogram. Sometimes the line is broken, sometimes it is solid. The parallelogram is closely associated with Judd's object investigations, which are motivated by the desire to create things without appearances."
Jitta/Schellman, Donald Judd. Prints and works in editions, Cologne/New York 1993, p. 33.




196
Donald Judd
Untitled, 1961-1963.
Woodcut in azure
Stima:
€ 15,000 / $ 16,200
Risultato:
€ 21,590 / $ 23,317

( commissione inclusa)