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Jannis Kounellis was a Greek Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1936. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Kunstmuseum Magdeburg. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum have featured Jannis Kounellis's work in the past.Jannis Kounellis's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 26 USD to 2,072,419 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 2,072,419 USD for Untitled, sold at Christie's London in 2014. In the past 12 months, his sculptures have averaged 96,502 USD, while his works on paper have sold for an average of 15,701 USD.Jannis Kounellis has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for Berlin Art Link Magazine in September 2025. The artist died in 2017.
In their very different ways, the artists who made these works 鈥 Edouard Manet, Nicolas de Sta毛l, Jannis Kounellis, Alberto Giacometti and Jean Dubuffet 鈥 each brought a radical new approach to colour, form and figuration. All are offered in our Paris Art Week sales.
We live at a time that allows us little room for manoeuvre. Much is out of joint, and not only since the pandemic; the foundations we thought we could rely on are coming apart at the seams.
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..Kounellis, who has already proved himself to be an impassioned decomposer in earlier works, divides up boats, pieces of meat, tables and ancient sculptures according to instructions from boat-builders,...
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..After an initial series of paintings with numbers and letters, today Kounellis works with materials not generally used in art - gas, wool, or coffee, for instance - which he combines into mysterious installations...
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