[toshspice]

May 4, 2017 22:54:23 GMT 1 tartarus said:

Destroys? well if that isnt a bit over the top as an explanation god knows what is! Looks like a couple of slashes with a razor blade or stanley blade so should be easy fixed. Bloody pointless thing to do, cant imagine what the hell he got out of doing it!

It's a PR job. Wool just got himself a whole heap of publicity. 

[tartarus]

May 4, 2017 22:58:50 GMT 1 toshspice said:

May 4, 2017 22:54:23 GMT 1 tartarus said:

Destroys? well if that isnt a bit over the top as an explanation god knows what is! Looks like a couple of slashes with a razor blade or stanley blade so should be easy fixed. Bloody pointless thing to do, cant imagine what the hell he got out of doing it!

It's a PR job. Wool just got himself a whole heap of publicity. 

oh! i just assumed he was dead already since its 3 million quids worth!


Sorry Mr Wool! 

[Viking Surfer]

Looking at his art on google images, I would genuinely take a Bambi La La Land.

[tartarus]

May 4, 2017 23:21:48 GMT 1 Viking Surfer said:

Looking at his art on google images, I would genuinely take a Bambi La La Land.

that doesnt sound like good news! 

[gmidd]

May 4, 2017 22:54:23 GMT 1 tartarus said:

Destroys? well if that isnt a bit over the top as an explanation god knows what is! Looks like a couple of slashes with a razor blade or stanley blade so should be easy fixed. Bloody pointless thing to do, cant imagine what the hell he got out of doing it!

Insurance scam? It all seems a bit fishy to me. Very odd.

[Deleted]

CW - if you know you know, makes Banksy prices look like a bargain....

[milo99]

Never understood art like this, I know he doesn't need any publicity though

[Sliding on the Walls]

THAT'S AWFUL!!!!








(the painting, I mean)

[tartarus]

May 5, 2017 1:22:20 GMT 1 gmidd said:

May 4, 2017 22:54:23 GMT 1 tartarus said:

Destroys? well if that isnt a bit over the top as an explanation god knows what is! Looks like a couple of slashes with a razor blade or stanley blade so should be easy fixed. Bloody pointless thing to do, cant imagine what the hell he got out of doing it!

Insurance scam? It all seems a bit fishy to me. Very odd.

Would be weird if it was, anything is possible of course! But the damage looks so minimal and clean the repair isnt that hard or expensive. I think the publicity idea is probably spot on. Patch the back, touch up, back on sale in a week! 

[Deleted]

It certainly looks like a set up.

Whether it's and excuse for a potential buyer to back out or whether it's a publicity stunt. Or whether this valued at millions painting is insured, it doe slook like a very delicate slash and looking at the artists ouevres. I'm sure he could knock out anotehr one easily.

[Howard Johnson]

I have a near mint first edition of Christopher Wool & Felix Gonzalez Torres "show is over" lithograph, and would like to trade for my favorite wool "if you can't take a joke" poster. I'm not sure on the market value of these two but happy to add a bit of cash or another print to make it happen. Thank you!

[adewilliams]

Looking to sell



Christopher Wool and Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Untitled (poster), 1993
56 x 37 in. / 142.2 x 94 cm.

It is a large poster and has some marks and a small, less than 5mm tear in one corner, overall though, in nice condition.

Central London based but happy to post in a tube.

I am looking to get as close to £1k as possible, very happy to take offers.

thanks

Created originally in 1993 for the Printed Matter exhibition at Dia in New York as a "stack" piece.

Publisher: Printed Matter, New York

[rosac]

fantastic. love mine.

[purpleandred]

I'll swap you a MINT Banksy Soup cans

Nice poster, GLWTS

[Ruggs]

This is mine framed up.

[Winter]

Love his work, looks great

[Ruggs]

Interestingly, an offset lithograph published by Gagosian Gallery, London in 2013, (which I think the one for sale was also from) realised a hammer price of £2.6k at Forum Auctions back in July this year.

www.forumauctions.co.uk/33608/Wool-Poster?auction_date=&auction_no=1012&catId=&excl_keyword=&first_name=&gridtype=listview&high_estimate=&ipp=10&keyword=&last_name=&low_estimate=&name=&page_no=25&sort_by=lot_no&title=&view=lot_detail

[adewilliams]

Oct 30, 2017 14:30:02 GMT 1 Ruggs said:

Interestingly, an offset lithograph published by Gagosian Gallery, London in 2013, (which I think the one for sale was also from) realised a hammer price of £2.6k at Forum Auctions back in July this year.

www.forumauctions.co.uk/33608/Wool-Poster?auction_date=&auction_no=1012&catId=&excl_keyword=&first_name=&gridtype=listview&high_estimate=&ipp=10&keyword=&last_name=&low_estimate=&name=&page_no=25&sort_by=lot_no&title=&view=lot_detail

makes this one a steal, a deal, sale of the f**kingcentury. In fact i think i'll keep it.

Unless someone wants to buy it.

[adewilliams]

Now sold, thanks

[ryry1984]

Gutted I missed this, love it

[Sliding on the Walls]

Dont know what it is about Christopher Wool but his art really angers me

[slayer]

Nov 7, 2017 23:17:38 GMT 1 Sliding on the Walls said:

Dont know what it is about Christopher Wool but his art really angers me

Haha...a realy good requirement for not buying a Piece of art for displaying at home

[mose]

This piece is fantastic, but also a concern for me. What's to stop it being reproduced by the thousands when the Felix Gonzalez-Torres work is shown again? It was already shown in 2013 at Gagosian London, another fat stack of them:

www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/the-show-is-over--october-15-2013/exhibition-video

Now, if there was a way to differentiate them, there's something. To me, an identifiable, first-showing, Felix Gonzalez-Torres still alive example from Printed Matter is something special indeed. A true piece of history worth premium.  But, being that there is nothing like a receipt or whatnot, can variations be discerned?

[rosac]

Nov 12, 2017 18:43:30 GMT 1 mose said:

This piece is fantastic, but also a concern for me. What's to stop it being reproduced by the thousands when the Felix Gonzalez-Torres work is shown again? It was already shown in 2013 at Gagosian London, another fat stack of them:

www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/the-show-is-over--october-15-2013/exhibition-video

Now, if there was a way to differentiate them, there's something. To me, an identifiable, first-showing, Felix Gonzalez-Torres still alive example from Printed Matter is something special indeed. A true piece of history worth premium.  But, being that there is nothing like a receipt or whatnot, can variations be discerned?

The version I have framed came from the Felix Gonzalez Torres retrospective at Guggenheim museum NY in spring of 1995. It was produced by Felix Gonzalez Torres as a stack piece in collaboration with Wool. The piece is dated 1993, which is when it was first exhibited, with printing date listed as 1995 because this was specifically from the Guggenheim installation. FGT stack pieces are always printed on thin uncoated stock. Not just this poster, all posters FGT produced for all of his stack sculptures. If you see one that's on glossy stock like being sold here then it’s a similar Wool poster produced much more recently (without involvement of FGT, obviously, since he's been dead for 20 years). Wool made several paintings in early 90s using this same text but with variations in how text was formatted and other details. I don't know for a fact that these new Gagosian posters were printed on coated stock but large format posters typically are, and the Gonzalez-Torres/Wool posters definitely are not so if its a thick shiny poster that's probably what it is.

From collecting standpoint the one I have is earlier, it's Wool and FGT, it's a real artist's multiple, it's documented in the FGT catalogue raissone, among other places.

New or old these printed sheets are produced and made available for visitors to take each and every time the artwork is exhibited. There is the potential for thousands upon thousands of these sheets to be in circulation, so very tough verifying the exhibition from which any particular sheet was taken.

I have fairly strong provenance/story to go with mine and I’m confident it’s genuine. So I’m happy with that.

It’s a beautiful and very powerful piece I’m proud to have on my wall.

[Ruggs]

Nov 12, 2017 21:54:15 GMT 1 rosac said:

Nov 12, 2017 18:43:30 GMT 1 mose said:

This piece is fantastic, but also a concern for me. What's to stop it being reproduced by the thousands when the Felix Gonzalez-Torres work is shown again? It was already shown in 2013 at Gagosian London, another fat stack of them:

www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/the-show-is-over--october-15-2013/exhibition-video

Now, if there was a way to differentiate them, there's something. To me, an identifiable, first-showing, Felix Gonzalez-Torres still alive example from Printed Matter is something special indeed. A true piece of history worth premium.  But, being that there is nothing like a receipt or whatnot, can variations be discerned?

The version I have framed came from the Felix Gonzalez Torres retrospective at Guggenheim museum NY in spring of 1995. It was produced by Felix Gonzalez Torres as a stack piece in collaboration with Wool. The piece is dated 1993, which is when it was first exhibited, with printing date listed as 1995 because this was specifically from the Guggenheim installation. FGT stack pieces are always printed on thin uncoated stock. Not just this poster, all posters FGT produced for all of his stack sculptures. If you see one that's on glossy stock like being sold here then it’s a similar Wool poster produced much more recently (without involvement of FGT, obviously, since he's been dead for 20 years). Wool made several paintings in early 90s using this same text but with variations in how text was formatted and other details. I don't know for a fact that these new Gagosian posters were printed on coated stock but large format posters typically are, and the Gonzalez-Torres/Wool posters definitely are not so if its a thick shiny poster that's probably what it is.

From collecting standpoint the one I have is earlier, it's Wool and FGT, it's a real artist's multiple, it's documented in the FGT catalogue raissone, among other places.

New or old these printed sheets are produced and made available for visitors to take each and every time the artwork is exhibited. There is the potential for thousands upon thousands of these sheets to be in circulation, so very tough verifying the exhibition from which any particular sheet was taken.

I have fairly strong provenance/story to go with mine and I’m confident it’s genuine. So I’m happy with that.

It’s a beautiful and very powerful piece I’m proud to have on my wall.

My version pictured earlier in this thread is from the same Guggenheim Museum exhibition. Here's some close-ups.

[bjoern]

Awesome!

[Deleted]

Hey all,

Sorry not to post in art wanted, I just don't think it's used these days as others have said.

I'm looking to buy a Christopher Wool / Felix Gonzalez 'Untitled' poster. It's unsigned and really just a fakeable poster, but I think its cool and would like to put it up. If you've got one for sale please let me know,

Thanks !!!

[rosac]

Mar 9, 2018 21:59:45 GMT 1 losvce said:

Hey all,

Sorry not to post in art wanted, I just don't think it's used these days as others have said.

I'm looking to buy a Christopher Wool / Felix Gonzalez 'Untitled' poster. It's unsigned and really just a fakeable poster, but I think its cool and would like to put it up. If you've got one for sale please let me know,

Thanks !!!

I have one but it’s not for sale... One of my favourite pieces despite only a ‘poster’. Good luck with your search

[Deleted]

Yeah, its not the most expensive or "high quality" piece, but I'm a fan, cool image 

[Ruggs]

I purchased one from the US last year from a very good source. Mine is a smaller sized poster from an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, New York in 1995. Absolutely love it. There's a much larger sized format that was available from an exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery, London in 2013 that might be worth trying to track down. Good luck sourcing one losvce.