Property from an Important American Collection
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Joseph Beuys
Felt Suit
- Estimate
- $60,000 - 90,000
$100,000
Lot Details
Felt suit, sewn,
1970
jacket 33 x 25 in. (83.8 x 63.5 cm)
pants 45 x 23 in. (114.3 x 58.4 cm)
pants 45 x 23 in. (114.3 x 58.4 cm)
numbered 89 in black ink on a label affixed to the inside of the jacket (the edition was 100 and 10 hors commerce), published by Galerie René Block, Berlin.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
"...on the one hand, it's a house, a cave that isolates a person from everybody else. On the other, it is a symbol of the isolation of human beings in our era. Felt plays the part of an insulator."
Keto von Waberer, interview with Joseph Beuys, Eine innere Mongolei, p. 206
Keto von Waberer, interview with Joseph Beuys, Eine innere Mongolei, p. 206
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