BEUYS BEUYS BEUYS is the online auction dedicated to Joseph Beuys, which was opened yesterday, April 8, on the auction house’s website Lempertz. It will be possible to place your bid for the lots in the auction until April 22. The works all come from a private German collection, consisting of over 50 works by the artist.
The auction is promoted to coincide with the dates of the fair Art Düsseldorf (April 17-19, with a preview on the 16th). A favorable moment that could entice collectors. The conceptual artist Joseph Beuys (Krefeld, 1921 – Düsseldorf, 1986) was indeed a significant figure in Düsseldorf. From 1961, he won the chair of Monumental Sculpture at the Kunstakademie, training entire generations of artists. He remains a cornerstone in the education of new German and international artists. The slogan that distinguished his poetics is “Everyone is an artist.”
“Every human being is an artist, a free being, called to participate in the transformation and reshaping of the conditions, thought, and structures that shape and inform our lives”.
His preferred materials were felt and animal fat, furthermore he was one of the founders of the ecological movement. The work that undoubtedly made him most famous was I like America and America likes me. In 1974, just after landing in New York, he had himself taken by ambulance, wrapped in a layer of felt, from the airport to the “René Block Gallery” in SoHo. Here he spent three consecutive days, eight hours at a time, enclosed in the company of a coyote. The animal represented for him a symbol, a sort of spirit guide of the Native Americans, but not only.
The works at auction
The selection at the auction includes different phases of its production. It therefore presents a significant corpus, aimed at conveying the complexity of its work.
Among the lots, one of the most iconic multiples from the beginnings, Intuition. You can place your bid for works from the Sixties like Ja Ja Ja Ja Ja, Nee Nee Nee Nee and from the Seventies such as Buttocklifting, Zeige deine Wunde.
Curious is the work Bruno Corà-Tee, a tribute to the Italian art historian and critic among the most authoritative in the field of experimental contemporary art. Bruno Corà has indeed contributed to the dissemination and understanding of Beuys’ work in the Italian Peninsula.
One of the ideas at the heart of Beuys’ work was to make art coincide with life, making this adherence accessible to the community. For this reason, the artist initiated the series of multiples, thus making the buying and selling of art more accessible and democratic. The works are estimated between 200 and 15,000 euros, inviting collectors with different wallets to participate.
Click here to participate in the Lempertz auction
She has collaborated for many years with art magazines such as Artribune, XIBT Contemporary, ArtApp, Insideart and Espoarte, preferring contemporary art in its many facets and media drifts.
