JOSEPH BEUYS (1921-1986)
Capri-Batterie (Capri-Battery)
light bulb, electrical plug and lemon
4⅝ x 5⅝ x 3½in. (11.7 x 14.3 x 9cm.)
Executed in 1985, this work is number one hundred and seven from an edition of two hundred

Provenance:
Edizione Lucio Amelio, Naples.
Anon. sale, Casa d'Aste Blindarte Naples, 30 November 2014, lot 175.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Exhibited:
Stockholm, Galleri Fahl, Joseph Beuys Multiplar och Grafik, 1988 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated, unpaged).
Munich, A11 Artforum, Joseph Beuys, 1990 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated, p. 224).
Venice, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Sei Stanze per Beuys a Venezia, 2000 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 143).
Providence, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Nature/Artifice: Contemporary Works from the Collection, 2010 (another from the edition exhibited).

Literature:
Galerie Ronny van de Velde & Co. (ed.), Joseph Beuys, Antwerp 1988 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, unpaged).
J. Schnellmann, Joseph Beuys Die Multiples, Munich 1992, no. 546 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 499).
Joseph Beuys, exh. cat., Paris, Centre Pompidou, 1994 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 21).
Hirschl & Adler Modern (ed.), Joseph Beuys, New York 1988, no. 71 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 107).

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