Iphigenie/Titus Andronicus (Iphigenia/Titus Andronicus)

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Joseph Beuys (1921-1986)
Iphigenie/Titus Andronicus (Iphigenia/Titus Andronicus)
oil on photopositive and negative on film in artist's steel frame
28 x 21½in. (71.4 x 54.5cm.)
Executed in 1985, this work is from an edition of forty-five plus five artist's proofs

Provenance

Lorenz Monk Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature

J. Schellmann, Joseph Beuys, Munich 1985, no. 395 (illustrated, unpaged).
Warhol Beuys Polke, exh. cat., Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum, 1987, no. 27 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 89).
Photography: Contemporary German Art: 1960 to the Present, exh. cat., Minneapolis, Walker Art Centre, 1992 (another from the edition illustrated, front cover).
J. Schellmann (ed.), Joseph Beuys: Die Multiples, Werkverzeichnis de Auflagenobjekte und Druckgraphik 1965-86, Munich 1992, no. 523 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 381).
J. Schellmann (ed.), Joseph Beuys: The Multiples, A Catalogue Raisonné of Multiples and Prints 1965-1986, New York 1997, no. 523 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 381).

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Lot Essay

Joseph Beuys simultaneously performed Goethe's Iphigenia and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus at the Frankfurt theatre festival experimental 3 in May 1969. This work incorporates photographic negatives taken during this seminal performance.

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