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Joseph Beuys (1921-1986)
Lot 183

Joseph Beuys (1921-1986)

Iphigenie/Titus Andronicus (Iphigenia/Titus Andronicus)

Closed29 June 2011

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GBP 15,000

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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

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

Specialist note

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.