Important Paintings, Sculptures, Watercolors, Drawings and Multiples
Monday, 04 June 2018, 06:00 pm
Lot 36
Meret Oppenheim, 1913-1985 (CH)
Hermesbrunnen, 1966/2006
Bronze sculpture, electrified with a water pump with open circuit , water reservoir, both water outflows separately adjustable, with customary in the trade water connection .
| CHF | 80'000 / 120'000 |
| EUR | 70'000 / 100'000 |
| USD | 90'000 / 130'000 |
Hammer Price: CHF 60'000
Annotation:
Height 2400 mm;
Diameter of the fountain basin 1890 mm.
The present work is the fith out of a series of six works + 2 H.C.
Foundry: Caporella, Rom.
Provenance:
German private property;
Private property Geneva.
Exhibition:
Basel, Galerie Carzaniga,
29.9.2007 - 12.1.2008 (different copy).
Literature:
see. Bice Curiger, Dominique Bürgi.
Catalogue raisonné Meret Oppenheim,
Spuren durchstandener Freiheit.
Zurich, ABC Verlag, 1984.
P 114 a and b, illustrations;
Exhibition catalog.
Meret Oppenenheim.
Basel, Galerie Carzaniga, 2007.
Page 25, color illustration of a different copy.
Annotation:
The, by the artist in 1966, conceived fountain in plaster mold was casted in bronze in 2006.
Fountains are f.e. in following collections:
Collection Würth;
Skulpturengarten Daniel Spoerri, Seggiano;
Park Goetheanum, Haus Duldeck, Dornach;
Berne, Galerie Kornfeld,
17. June 2011, Lot No. 132.
The consignor, if necessary, assumes the overhaul of the function of the fountain.