Dec 11, 2014 - Sale 2370

Sale 2370 - Lot 195

Price Realized: $ 3,380
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(KRUGER, BARBARA) (1945- )
Group of 23 dynamic matchbooks printed with the artist's iconic photomontages, each using appropriated images embellished with banners of provacative text, including the phrases "Your comfort is my silence," "We have received orders not to move," and "Your manias become science." This selection represents the 7 designs that were available, in two different sizes. Black-and-white photolithograph on black matchbook multiples, each fully intact and unopened. 1986
Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

The full set includes "Your Manias Become Science" (4), "Surveillance" (3), "Your Comfort is My Science" (3), "Charisma is the Perfume of Your Gods" (3), "You are an Experiement in Terror" (3), "You Construct Intricate rituals which allow you to touch the skin of other men" (3), and "You have received orders not to move" (4).
These matchbooks were published by the Hoffman Gallery, in Chicago, and were also available at the Colab Store at the Barbara Gladstone Gallery. They have been reproduced in Deborah Wye, Artists and Prints: Masterworks from the Museum of Modern Art, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2004.