Lot 167
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167
Raymond Hains
SAFFA, 1970.
Wood, painted, sand paper
Estimation:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,400 Résultat:
€ 35,560 / $ 38,049 ( frais d'adjudication compris)
SAFFA. 1970.
Wood, painted, sand paper.
Signed, dated and titled on the reverse. 99 x 42 x 13.5 cm (38.9 x 16.5 x 5.3 in).
[AR].
• Early work from the famous matches series of the pioneer of 20th century art.
• Together with artists such as Arman, Yves Klein and Jean Tinguely, he signed the first manifesto of Nouveau Réalisme in 1960.
• He participated in documenta in Kassel in 1968 and 1997, and was posthumously represented in the main exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2017.
• Other works from this group are in international collections like the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice; the Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon; and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris (with the label on the reverse).
Corporate Collection Ahlers AG, Herford (acquired from the above in 2011).
EXHIBITION: François Dufrêne, Raymond Hains. Une amitié entre l'art et les mots. Freundschaft zwischen Kunst und Wort, Passage de Retz, Paris, December 5, 2011 - January 15, 2012 (not in the catalog).
Wood, painted, sand paper.
Signed, dated and titled on the reverse. 99 x 42 x 13.5 cm (38.9 x 16.5 x 5.3 in).
[AR].
• Early work from the famous matches series of the pioneer of 20th century art.
• Together with artists such as Arman, Yves Klein and Jean Tinguely, he signed the first manifesto of Nouveau Réalisme in 1960.
• He participated in documenta in Kassel in 1968 and 1997, and was posthumously represented in the main exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2017.
• Other works from this group are in international collections like the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice; the Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon; and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris (with the label on the reverse).
Corporate Collection Ahlers AG, Herford (acquired from the above in 2011).
EXHIBITION: François Dufrêne, Raymond Hains. Une amitié entre l'art et les mots. Freundschaft zwischen Kunst und Wort, Passage de Retz, Paris, December 5, 2011 - January 15, 2012 (not in the catalog).
"SAFFA" is an early example of Hains' iconic series of oversized matchbooks, which he began in the mid-1960s, revisiting it in the early 2000s. The title is the acronym of an Italian tobacco company. Made by a carpenter according to his instructions, Hains' matchbooks challenge the notion of authorship. Playing with the idea of the readymade, the works move between humor and seriousness, aesthetic pretension and thingness
167
Raymond Hains
SAFFA, 1970.
Wood, painted, sand paper
Estimation:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,400 Résultat:
€ 35,560 / $ 38,049 ( frais d'adjudication compris)