George Maciunas
Fluxkit
Estimate: 60.000 - 80.000 USD
Price realised: 104.500 USD
Price realised: 104.500 USD
Description
George Maciunas
Fluxkit
velveteen-lined vinyl attaché case, with built in wooden compartments, Flux Organ, Flux Music Box, Ay-O's Finger Box, four Fluxus Newspapers (ccV TRE) and a variety of fluxboxes including Eric Anderson's "Opera", George Brecht's "Water Yam", "Ball puzzle" and "Name Kit", Takehisa Kosugi's "Collective Events", Dick Hickins' "Boulders and Cannons", Robert Watts "Rocks marked by weight", Ben Patterson's "Instruction 2", Nam June Paik's "Zen for Film", Ben Vautier's "Holes" and "Dirty water", Chieko Shiomi's "Collected Events" and "Water Music", Robert Watts' "Collected Events with Fluxstamps", George Maciunas' "Fluxus East Box", and Alison Knowles' "Bean Rolls".
11 x 17 5/16 x 4 5/16 in. (28 x 44 x 11 cm.)
Executed in 1964-1965. (25)
Fluxkit
velveteen-lined vinyl attaché case, with built in wooden compartments, Flux Organ, Flux Music Box, Ay-O's Finger Box, four Fluxus Newspapers (ccV TRE) and a variety of fluxboxes including Eric Anderson's "Opera", George Brecht's "Water Yam", "Ball puzzle" and "Name Kit", Takehisa Kosugi's "Collective Events", Dick Hickins' "Boulders and Cannons", Robert Watts "Rocks marked by weight", Ben Patterson's "Instruction 2", Nam June Paik's "Zen for Film", Ben Vautier's "Holes" and "Dirty water", Chieko Shiomi's "Collected Events" and "Water Music", Robert Watts' "Collected Events with Fluxstamps", George Maciunas' "Fluxus East Box", and Alison Knowles' "Bean Rolls".
11 x 17 5/16 x 4 5/16 in. (28 x 44 x 11 cm.)
Executed in 1964-1965. (25)
A top price for George Maciunas
The work Fluxkit by George Maciunas was sold in the First OpenPost-War & Contemporary Art auction at Christies in New York in September 2011. It achieved a price of USD 104,500.00 (€ 77,700.94), exceeding the upper end of the estimate range by 31%. With this result, Fluxkit is even the most expensive work of art by George Maciunas that we have observed at auctions so far.
Ein Spitzenpreis für George Maciunas
Die Arbeit Fluxkit von George Maciunas wurde im September 2011 in der Auktion First OpenPost-War & Contemporary Art bei Christies in New York versteigert. Sie erzielte dabei einen Preis von USD 104.500,00 (€ 77.700,94) und übertraf damit das obere Ende der Schätzpreisspanne um 31%. Mit diesem Ergebnis ist Fluxkit sogar das teuerste Kunstwerk von George Maciunas, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.
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