Original Condition (Victor Gruen, The Rosenstiel/Augunas Residence, 1950/2005)
Dorit Margreiter
Original Condition (Victor Gruen, The Rosenstiel/Augunas Residence, 1950/2005), 2006
Installation 12 excerpts from magazines, black and white and color, dry mounted on card board Single plates: [USD 5,250,000, (Melinda Ridell)], color, 5.6 x 6 cm [USD 5,250,000, (Crosby Doe, new exclusive)], color, 12.6 x 11.6 cm [USD 5,250,000], color, 5.9 x 6 cm [USD 5,250,000], black and white, 5.8 x 6 cm [USD 4,250,000, (Crosby Doe)], color, 6.7 x 5.7 cm [USD 4,250,000, (Crosby Doe)], color, 7.6 x 7.7 cm [USD 4,250,000, (Crosby Doe)], black and white, 13.3 x 9.6 cm [USD 4,250,000, (Melinda Ridell)], black and white, 5.7 x 6 cm [USD 3,995,000, (Melinda Ridell)], color, 5.1 x 6 cm [USD 3,995,000, (New Price)], color, 7.5 x 7.2 cm [USD 3,595,000, (Melinda Riddell], color, 5.8 x 5.9 cm [USD 3,595,000, (Crosby Doe)], color, 6.2 x 3.8 cm Framed 31.5 x 23.5 cm each
GF0030731.00.0-2007
Artwork text
The advertisements document the sale of a villa by the Austrian architect Victor Gruen in the Los Angeles Times between fall 2005 and spring 2006. Victor Gruen, who had to emi-grate to New York, is the inventor of the shopping mall.