Vriesendorp Madelon (b 1945) Welfare Palace Hotel

Sale 2704 - Lot 155

Price Realized: $ 3,500

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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000

Vriesendorp, Madelon (b. 1945)
Welfare Palace Hotel.

1975.

Gouache on paper, exhibited at the Guggenheim, loaned from the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) London as part of the November 17-December 17, 1978 Guggenheim Rotunda Project, "The Sparkling Metropolis" []; with Guggenheim gallery sticker on verso of backing board, along with an undated Venice Biennale sticker; another label from the London Architectural Association, and that of a private American collector; unframed; 760 x 960 mm; 30 x 37⅞ in.

In 2018, Vriesendorp won Architectural Review's Ada Louis Huxtable Prize, an acknowledgement of her contributions to architecture. In her acceptance speech, she said in part, "What do they say? Behind every successful man is a surprised woman? Or now is it behind every successful woman is an angry man?" Her early work establishing OMA with former partner Rem Koolhaas was later re-framed by male colleagues. "I felt I was being written out of the script more and more." As noted in Sam Jacob's 23 February 2018 Architectural Review essay, If at first you don't succeed, cry, cry again, "Even the paintings she is most renowned for are often associated with Rem Koolhaas's name." (). In her September 2023-2024 London installation, Cosmic Housework, Vriesendorp collaborated with the Charles Jencks Foundation, "offering a playful (re)interpretation and humourous subversion of the symbolism imbued in the architecture of The Cosmic House, densely packed with ideas and motifs embracing an entire cosmos of architectural allusion, history, metaphor and reference." ()

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