2 Times 5 Trophies (1-13)
Print
Portfolio of 11 prints in a cardboard portfolio and one original sketch.
1979.22.1.1 - Cover. Print attached to cardboard folder. Crème with silver background, black font, and a box at the bottom. Text reads "Dieter Roth: / 2 times 5 TROPHIES / edition hansjorg meyer stuttgart / London / + / Dieter Roth's Verlag / Zug / 1978 / an edition of 100 signed / + / numbered / 10 original prints / in portfolio / this is No. 64" "Assistant: Bjorn Roth" written in pencil. White sticker on the back "DWW 29".
1979.22.1.2 - Pencil drawing of a figure in the center holding two flags and standing in a box, legs are not visible. Left flag says "Trophy" right says trophy mirrored. Very simple, quick, line sketch. Sketch is signed in pencil at the bottom, "Dieter Roth 78".
1979.22.1.3 - Print, title page, black and silver, on a cream chamois card. Drawing of a vase like trophy with two handles on each side. Top has a floral or exploding cloud look. "Dieter Roth" written in block letters in an oval at the top. "2 times 5" written in the center. "Trophies" written in block letters in an oval at the bottom. Drawn in black marker with a silver coloring over the majority of the trophy but never over the writing. Print 64/100.
1979.22.1.4 - Print, black and silver, on a cream chamois card. Sculpture shape in center looks like a crushed can. The center is filled with several shapes and lines. The larger shape is sitting on box. Word in an oval at the bottom possibly "Octua". Silver coloring as the background. Print 64/100.
1979.22.1.5 - Print, black and silver, on cream chamois card. Sculpture shape in center painted over with a translucent silver. Object is sitting on a black, rounded, surface which runs up the sides. There is a silver line coming from the object and going off the left side at a diagonal. Print 64/100.
1979.22.1.6 - Print, black and silver, on a cream chamois card. Shape in the center has a spiral look with feather like shapes coming out of the top, the bottom of a shoe sticking out the right side, and there is a U shaped object at the bottom with some kind of animal face on it. Background is silver. Print 64/100.
1979.22.1.7 - Print, black and silver, on a cream chamois card. Shape in the center looks like an apple on top a turtle which is all resting on a table with short legs. Shape is covered with translucent silver. Bottom area is black and curved and continues as a frame. There are some silver marks on the bottom left side. Print 64/100.
1979.22.1.8 - Print, black and silver, on a cream chamois card. Background silver in places. Shape in the center has anthropomorphic shapes such as a head and hand sticking out of the right side, a face and feet out of the top left, and face and legs at the center. Bottom half of the shape is rounded with two holes in the center. Print 64/100.
1979.22.1.9 - Print, black and silver, on chamois card. Sculpture shape in center is covered
with translucent silver. Shape looks like a hunched over figure with a face and arm to the right and two feet on a square top pedestal. Bottom is black and rounded and continue up the sides. Number "46" is in crème along the left side. Print 64/100.
1979.22.1.10 - Print, black and silver, on chamois card. Background is silver. Shape is in center has frog features with legs at the bottom sitting on a circular shape. It looks like the frog has his mouth open and is eating a person, although no frog facial features are clearly present. There is a face at the top with a horrified expression and an arm sticking out the right side as though being sucked in. Print 64/100.
1979.22.1.11 - Print, black and silver, on chamois card. Shape is covered with a translucent silver. Shape appears to be a still life on top of rounded fruit. There is a snake-like shape along the right side. The top is on a rounded bottom, almost hourglass in shape. On a black rounded bottom that continues up the side. Print 64/100.
1979.22.1.12 - Print, black and silver, on chamois card. Silver background. Rounded vase
like structure in the center which Page 968 Excellent is on a rounded base. Center shape has anthropomorphic features such as eyes at the top, an ear right center, and a hand coming around the base. Top of structure is shaded in a little. Print 64/100.
1979.22.1.13 - Print, black and silver, on chamois card. A crushed shape on a v shaped pedestal. Shape is covered in a translucent silver. There is a squiggly silver line coming off the right like a cord. Black rounded, bottom that continues up the sides. Print 64/100.
1979.22.1
Ackerman Foundation
1979.22
Gift of Donald Thal (through the Martin S. Ackerman Foundation)
Dieter Roth
1978
20th Century
Portfolio
20 in
14-1/4 in
19" x 25" original drawing, 19.625" x 13.75" prints
BeigeBlackSilver