Lot: 237
Joseph Beuys*, Augurs. Unique misprint 1982
Augurs. 1982. Unique misprint, color offset on paper. Motif: 51 x 35cm / Sheet: 61 x 43 cm. Signed, titled and inscribed in red felt-tip pen: Auguren / Joseph Beuys / (telephone cord traced). Edition Staeck, Heidelberg (ed.)
For comparison, catalog raisonné no. 443, one of 20 differently colored, hand-reworked proofs outside the edition of 220 signed and numbered copies.
The augurs were Roman officials who had to determine whether a government-planned undertaking was acceptable to the gods. They proclaimed the will of the gods.
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04. May 2024 at 11:00 AM CEST
Literature:
Cat. raisonné Schellmann, WVZ No. 443, p. 486 (cf.)
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