Live Auction 1872First Open Post- War and Contemporary Art
Joseph Beuys (1921-1986)
Lot 248

Joseph Beuys (1921-1986)

Iphiginie/Titus Andronicus

Closed10 September 2007

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USD 25,000

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Joseph Beuys (1921-1986)
Iphiginie/Titus Andronicus
photonegatives in a steel frame with glass, iron and felt
28 x 22¾ x 2 in. (71.1 x 57.8 x 5 cm.)
Executed in 1985. This work is from an edition of forty-five plus five artist's proofs.

Edition Schellmann, Munich/New York
Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York

Specialist note

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