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克里斯托（Javacheff Christo，当代艺术I-

Christo * (Javacheff Christo) - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(Gabrovo, Bulgaria 1935–2020 New York)
Wrapped Snoopy House (Collage), 2004, signed, dated Christo 2004, cloth, threads, charcoal, pencil, color crayon, paint and adhesive tape on cardboard, 61.2 x 55 cm,
framed under plexiglass

The wrapped Snoopy House is registered in the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Archives, New York.

We are grateful to Jonathan Henery, Christo and Jeanne-Claude Archives, New York, for his scientific support in cataloguing the work.

Provenance:
Studio of the artist
Collection of the printer and fabricator Jack Lemon, Chicago
Private collection, 德国y

Literature:
This work is the prototype for the multiple, published by Schulz Museum, Santa Rosa, California see: Matthias Koddenberg, Jörg Schellmann: Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Prints and Objects. Catalogue Raisonné, p. 213, no 188

Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) was the cartoonist of the globally successful comic series \"Peanuts\". The 美国 author and illustrator portrayed 美国 suburban life from the perspective of a group of children in the daily comic strips, which ran for decades. Peanuts was special in that it combined pointed wit with philosophical reflection.

Most of the comic strips focus on the main characters Charlie Brown and his dog Snoopy. Snoopy, the white dog with the black floppy ears, is now considered an integral part of our popular culture.
Snoopy lives in a kennel in Charlie Brown\'s garden. There, the beagle spends most of his time lying lazily on the roof of his hut, the so-called Snoopy Dog House, pondering his philosophical thoughts while waiting for his next meal.

In 1975, Charles M. Schulz met the packaging artists Jeanne-Claude and Christo at a discussion group in Colorado. The cartoonist then paid tribute to the artist couple by creating a Peanuts comic strip in 1978 in which Christo wraps Snoopy‘s House in fabric. In the comic strip, Snoopy wonders what Christo will cover next and finds his house wrapped at the end of the sequence. Christo returned the cartoonist\'s compliment by turning the comic image into reality decades later, designing a life-size, three-dimensional doghouse for the Charles M. Schulz Museum and wrapping it in tarpaulin, polyethylene and rope.
The work offered here is an original collage with real fabric wrapping, created by Christo in 1994 as a prototype for the later multiple. The multiple is number 188 in the catalogue raisonné.
This original work came from the estate of printer Jack Lemon, who founded his life\'s work, the Landfall Press, in Chicago in 1970. Lemon and his team printed lithographs by Christo, Philip Pearlstein and Sol LeWitt, among others.

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草间弥生，当代艺术I-

Yayoi Kusama - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(born in Matsumoto, Japan 1929)
Pumpkin KKK, 2002, signed, dated and titled on the reverse, acrylic on canvas, 22.7 x 15.8 cm, in plexiglass box

This work is accompanied by a registration card issued by Yayoi Kusama Studio

We are grateful to Yayoi Kusama Inc. for confirming the registration of the work in its database

Provenance:
European Private Collection

Iconic Pumpkin

Yayoi Kusama is possibly the best known Japanese artist in the world. Her famous polka dots have become her trademark and Kusama\'s stylized pumpkins are among the most iconic masterpieces of contemporary art.

Born in the late 1920s, Yayoi Kusama grew up in the conservative confines of the small town of Matsumoto in Nagano Prefecture in Japan. She attended the Kyoto School of Arts and Crafts, and after staging her first exhibitions, through which she was ‘discovered’ by the international art world, Kusama was able to emigrate to America, where she lived and worked, primarily in New York, from 1957 to 1973. Kusama celebrated her first major success in New York in 1959 with a solo exhibition at the Brata Gallery, entitled Obsessional Monochrome. The Infinity Net Paintings exhibited there were compositions of dense networks executed with white brushstrokes on a black ground and characterised by the theme of repetition.

Grids, flashes of light and, above all, dots that repeat endlessly are the most striking characteristic of Kusama\'s works and established her fame as the ‘Polka Dot Princess’. For the artist, the dots that overgrow everything are not merely a harmless pattern. They have their origins in the hallucinations and panic attacks she has experienced since her youth, which determined her perception of the world. Growing up, she saw dot and net patterns and feared she would dissolve into them. The polka dots and their constant repetition now became an expression of the search for infinity and the desire for self-dissolution. The dots erase the image into which the artist channels her fears. With her polka dots, Kusama covers not only canvases, but also everyday objects such as tea kettles or bookshelves, clothes, giant tentacles, oversized flowers, entire rooms or herself. And pumpkins as well.

\"Pumpkin KKK\" (2002) represents another important theme in Yayoi Kusama\'s work. For Kusama, the pumpkin is associated with memories of childhood and has been a favourite motif with almost mythical status since the 1970s-1980s. The artist first saw pumpkins during walks with her grandfather, and they had a calming effect on the hallucination-stricken artist. \"I love pumpkins for their humorous shape, their warmth and their human quality,\" Kusama says. She devoted herself to pumpkins in paintings and sculptures and incorporated them into her Infinity Rooms. Bold colours characterise the pumpkins, as do the precisely placed polka dots. The colour scheme follows an inner symbolism, according to which the artist categorises unprocessed experiences. The pumpkins stand for triumph over inner struggles, their endless repetition allows the artist to find her mental balance.

Since her return to Japan, Kusama, who has never made a secret of her illness, has voluntarily lived in a psychiatric institution. In 2017, a museum dedicated solely to her opened in Tokyo and numerous international exhibitions testify to considerable on-going interest in her work. With her unconventional works, her extraordinary performances, self-dramatisations and happenings, Kusama has anticipated many trends in contemporary art.

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马格努斯·普莱森，当代艺术I-

Magnus Plessen * - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(born in Hamburg 1967)
Untitled, 2009, signed, dated, titled on the overlap Plessen 2009, oil on canvas, 117 x 89 cm, on stretcher

Provenance:
Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich (gallery label)
Private collection, 德国y - acquired from the above

Literature:
Uta Grosenick and Daniel Marzona (Eds.): Magnus Plessen. Die Augen in der Hand. Malerei 1999-2009. 100 Bilder, Cologne 2009, cat.-no. 93, with full page color illustration on p. 47

From a background as a photographer and filmmaker, Magnus Plessen has turned himself into one of the most well-known painters of our time. His unique composition technique and reduced visual language as well as the broad stroke of his palette knife lets his artworks play along the boundary of the abstract and the figurative. The characteristics of Plessen’s paintings lie in their systematic development of an image, constructed by adding and removing sections of paint to reveal passages of compact form and negative space. The artist uses the idea of rotation as a means of reordering structure and dimensionality within the painting.

“It’s literally moving away from you. The relationship of the viewer to the painting and the attempt to achieve some kind of loosening is something that physically takes place in my mind but is also an action in the process of making.” (ibid.)

The artwork being auctioned here resembles this situation. Uncoordinated objects and colour fields seem to float through the canvas. As a viewer you recognize some familiar objects such as the hand or the cable and are able use them as fixed points to create your own first-hand impression of the artwork.

“I don’t want to link painting back to the reality that we know. I would like to link it to an unknown place. So, what could that place look like? It’s light, it’s colour, it’s different forces that hold the objects which are readily recognisable in my paintings together. Hold them in place, in position, give them a place. I normally tend to bring the same objects or body parts to the canvas, e.g. hands, feet or fruit. I think it’s important to bring these familiar things that I deploy onto the empty canvas. I think you need something familiar in an unfamiliar place. It just makes it so much easier to move and find your way through that space.”
(Magnus Plessen on the exhibition: Riding the Image, White Cube, Mason’s Yard, 14.9.-10.11.2012)

From a background as a photographer and filmmaker, Magnus Plessen has turned himself into one of the most well-known painters of our time. His unique composition technique and reduced visual language as well as the broad stroke of his palette knife lets his artworks play along the boundary of the abstract and the figurative. The characteristics of Plessen’s paintings lie in their systematic development of an image, constructed by adding and removing sections of paint to reveal passages of compact form and negative space. The artist uses the idea of rotation as a means of reordering structure and dimensionality within the painting.

“It’s literally moving away from you. The relationship of the viewer to the painting and the attempt to achieve some kind of loosening is something that physically takes place in my mind but is also an action in the process of making.” (ibid.)
The artwork being auctioned here resembles this situation. Uncoordinated objects and colour fields seem to float through the canvas. As a viewer you recognize some familiar objects such as the hand or the cable and are able use them as fixed points to create your own first-hand impression of the artwork.

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DOSTOEVSKY CARTE-DE-VISITE INSCRIBED TO ALEXANDER HERZEN.:DOSTOEVSKY, FYODOR. 1821-1881. Photograph signed and inscribed [in Russian] to Alexander Herzen, albumen print carte-de-visite full length portrait by M.B. Tulinov, Petersburg, 1861, 105 x 65 mm, inscribed by Dostoevsky in Russian to the verso, \"Alexander Ivanovich Herzen in memory of our meeting in London. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 8 July/20 July 1862,\" minor stain to verso.
Provenance: Alexander Ivanovich Herzen; to daughter Olga Aleksandrovna [Herzen] Monod; by descent.
Publication: For a discussion of the photograph, see Volgin, Igor. \"Introduction\" to The Dostoevsky Archive (1997), p 21.

Pull quote: \"Herzen awaits his readers in the future. Far above the heads of the present crowd, he transmits his thoughts to those who will be able to comprehend them.\" – Leo Tolstoy, 1905.

VERY RARE CARTE DE VISITE PHOTOGRAPH OF FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY PRESENTED TO ALEXANDER HERZEN IN REMEMBRANCE OF THEIR 1862 MEETING IN LONDON: A TREMENDOUSLY IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION BETWEEN TWO OF THE LEADING INTELLECTUALS OF THE 19TH-CENTURY.

Alexander Herzen was one of the most important and influential Russian writers and thinkers of the 19th-century. called the \"father of Russian socialism,\" he had a profound influence on late-19th century Russian writers, including Fyodor Dostoevsky. Born illegitimately to a wealthy Russian landowner, Herzen became a dissident and critic of the Russian feudal system. Of Herzen, Tolstoy said he had never met a man \"with so rare a combination of scintillating brilliance and depth.\" His writings, including From the Other Shore (1848) and those appearing in his influential publications of the 1850s-60s The Bell and the Polestar, would help mold a generation of Russian writing and thought.

Herzen and Dostoevsky met for the first time in Russia in 1846, following Dostoevsky\'s comment in a letter to his brother that Herzen and Goncharov stand as \"the most remarkable\" of his rivals; Herzen\'s recollection of the meeting was less than effusive, however: \"I can\'t say he made a particularly present impression.\" Their second meeting occurred when Dostoevsky visited Herzen in London in July of 1862, of which this photograph is a memento. During the 1850s and early 1860s, visits to the emigree Herzen by Russian writers and intellectuals were something of a right of passage, and Dostoevsky\'s visit followed right on the heels of Turgenev. This series of meetings profoundly affected Dostoevsky and his work, and is clearly acknowledged in his Winter Notes which he wrote later that year, exhibiting a clear debt to Herzen\'s own writings. Dostoevsky, along with Solzhenitsyn, acknowledged the formative influence of Herzen on his work, and Herzen would also appear in composite in a number of Dostoevsky\'s characters throughout his career. Herzen, however, noted, rather condescendingly, \"Dostoevsky was here yesterday—he is a naïve, not entirely lucid, but a very dear person. He believes enthusiastically in the Russian people.\"

The two towering figures would meet again on a steamship from Naples to Livorno the following year, where Dostoevsky was travelling with his mistress Polina Suslova. According to Suslova\'s diaries (as published in The Dostoevsky Archives), Dostoevsky took pains to hide their relationship from Herzen, introducing her vaguely as a family member, and even encouraged her to arrange a visit with Herzen\'s son in Paris that Winter. After they parted, Dostoevsky became angry with her over a photograph of her he had seen at Herzen\'s, which she had given at an earlier date. In 1865, Dostoevsky wrote to Herzen imploring him for a loan, and became peevish when Herzen did not immediately respond. By the late 1860s Dostoevsky would disparage Herzen, somewhat unfairly, as a \"Westernizer,\" leading to his more severe criticism of Herzen in his Writer\'s Diary.

Herzen was one of the most complex and brilliant figures of the 19th-century, and was largely responsible for assimilating western ideas into Russian thought, while still maintaining his advocacy for the freedom of the Russian serf.

In reality, the two writers/thinkers shared a great deal in their outlook: both asserted the importance of the individual, and the folly of the search for a unified teleological system, cutting against the grain of their mid-19th century contemporaries. While Herzen was embraced by Lenin, identified as the \"father of Russian socialism,\" Herzen\'s socialism was a different breed, \"Centralization may do a great deal for order and for various public undertakings, but it is incompatible with freedom. It easily brings a nation to the position of a well-tended flock or a pack of hounds cleverly kept in order by a huntsman.\" Lenin regarded Herzen\'s focus on freedom as a shortcoming of his bourgeois roots. During the 20th-century Russian-British philosopher Isaiah Berlin came across Herzen\'s writings and recognized the prescience of Herzen\'s thought. It was Berlin, who reestablished Herzen\'s influence, agreeing with and amplifying his idea that the pursuit of \"a perfect society\" invariably leads to blood.

The present photograph was taken by Mikhail Borisovich Tulinov (1823–1889) in Petersburg in 1861. Any period photograph of Dostoevsky is rare, and moreso inscribed. We trace two inscribed photographs at auction in the last 40 years. However, we find no record of an inscribed photograph of similar substance and importance in the historical record. An incredible, and incredibly rare, Dostoevsky item tying together two of the greatest thinkers and writers of the 19th-century.

REFERENCES:
Kelly, Aileen. The Discovery of Chance: The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen. 2016.
Kelly, Aileen. \"Irony and Utopia in Herzen and Dostoevsky: From the Other Shore and Diary of a Writer.\" The Russian Review, 50:4 (1991), pp 397-416.
Lantz, Kenneth. The Dostoevsky Encycolpedia. 2004.
Serakin, Peter. The Dostoevsky Archive: Firsthand Accounts of the Novelist from Contemporaries\' Memoirs and Rare Periodicals. 1997.


\"If only people wanted to save themselves instead of saving the world, how much they would do for the salvation of the world and the liberation of humanity!\" – Alexander Herzen, From the Other Shore, 1848.

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