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- Estimate
- £100,000–£120,000 hammer ≈ $156,728–$188,073
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Sotheby's — Contemporary Art Evening Sale, London · 13 October 2011
- Record ID
- TB-2026-4038921
- Record
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Joseph Kosuth, Subject and Object Self-Defined. Sotheby's, 13 Oct 2011, lot 47. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4038921.
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Joseph Kosuth, Subject and Object Self-Defined. Sotheby's, 13 Oct 2011, lot 47. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4038921.
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From the same sale Contemporary Art Evening Sale · Oct 2011
| Lot | Artist | Estimate | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheops | Andreas Gursky | £300,000–£400,000 | |
| Untitled (Many Figures) | Jean-Michel Basquiat | £300,000–£400,000 | |
| Swear | Gilbert And George | £220,000–£280,000 | |
| Charmant eight | Chris Ofili | £200,000–£300,000 | |
| Plants in Jamaica | Lucian Freud | £400,000–£600,000 | |
| Spike | Jean-Michel Basquiat | £1,100,000–£1,600,000 |
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| Artist | Lot | vs. estimate | Result USD, incl. premium | Sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph Kosuth | One and Eight-A Description | $190,500 | Sotheby's, May 2025 | |
| Joseph Kosuth | Neon Electrical Light English Glass Letters Yellow Eight | Christie's, Jun 2021 | ||
| Joseph Kosuth | On Color (Red), After Augustine #I - 1990 | Artcurial, Jul 2020 | ||
| Joseph Kosuth | North, East, South, West (From Art as Idea as Idea) | Phillips, Feb 2016 | ||
| Joseph Kosuth | One and Three Frames | Sotheby's, Oct 2015 | ||
| Joseph Kosuth | Clock (One and Five), [English-Spanish] | Bonhams, Oct 2024 | ||
| Joseph Kosuth | 'Titled (A.A.I.A.I.)' [pink] [Ety.] | Christie's, Mar 2018 | ||
| Joseph Kosuth | five words in five colors | Sotheby's, May 2011 |
The closest sold results by price, artist, and medium — the appraiser's comp set, generated from the corpus. All figures converted to USD at current reference rates.