CHRISTIAN MEGERT

"Caparol" on a wooden box handcrafted by the artist. Signed and dated on the bottom right, and again on the reverse, inside the box.

15.5 × 7 × 3 cm

This work was specially created for the 1957 exhibition Micro-Salon d’Avril at Galerie Iris Clert in Paris (April 12 – May 8, 1957). The show featured only artworks no larger than a postcard. Christian Megert personally confirmed this to me when I visited him to show him the piece.

The Micro-Salon d’Avril was Galerie Iris Clert’s first major exhibition. It included over 250 works by more than a hundred artists—among them Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Hans Hartung, as well as Klein’s parents—alongside emerging young talents such as Yves Klein, Arman, Jean Tinguely, and Takis.

Provenance: David Bill (grandson of Max Bill)

CHF 5000

Mirror elements inside a wooden box (originally a cigar box) with a hinged door.

Signed and dated 1962 on the back in red, with the inscription “Restauration” signed and dated 2001 below.

The door was repainted black during the 2001 restoration.

22.5 × 13.7 × 6.5 cm

This cigar box is extremely rare. Megert made only seven or eight of them at the time. In the 1980s, he began creating similar boxes again, but without a door.

CHF 7000