Live Auction 7425Post War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale
Jonathan Meese (b. 1970)
Lot 121 COLLECTION ZADIG & VOLTAIRE, FRANCE

Jonathan Meese (b. 1970)

Agamemnon's Hähnchenbesteck

Closed14 October 2007

Price Realised

GBP 132,500

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Jonathan Meese (b. 1970)
Agamemnon's Hähnchenbesteck
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'JM 2003' (lower right of the right panel); signed twice, inscribed and dated 'JMeese 2003 links' (on the reverse of the left panel); signed three times, inscribed, titled and dated three times 'AGAMEMNON HÄHNCHENBESTECK JMeese 2003 mitte' (on the reverse of the central panel); signed, inscribed and dated 'JMeese 2003 rechts' (on the reverse of the right panel)
oil on canvas, triptych
each: 82½ x 54 7/8in. (209.5 x 139.5cm.)
overall: 82½ x 164 7/8in. (209.5 x 418.5cm.)
Painted in 2003

Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin.
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

"Agamemnon's chicken cutlery
(the baby-soft 3rd sense face)
with little heretic mouth
and in the coffee ground
chivalric mouth tools
of girl-poppy seeds
and diamond..(?)..nose
.....
=> I am also Saint [crossed out] sacked/sunk
Friendaddy
don Gummeslstns
de Druidwhore.