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Lot 435: John and Yoko under the Butterfly Flag

Est: €250 EUR - €450 EURSold:
Adams Amsterdam AuctionsAmsterdam, NetherlandsJune 08, 2021

Item Overview

Description

- SIXTIES - AMSTERDAM, THE MAGIC CENTRE - LENNON - ROOIJ, John de (Dutch 1936 - 1977). John and Yoko, Bed-In Hilton Hotel Amsterdam, 1969. Gelatin silver print, with the photographer's copyright stamp 'John de Rooij - Pictures Groenburgwal 138 Amsterdam tel. 244500 Holland' (on the reverse). Good condition.

Dimensions

18 x 24 cm.

Artist or Maker

Provenance

The estate of Max Reneman

Notes

The legendary Bed-in for Peace of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, which took place from 25th to 31st March 1969 at the Amsterdam Hilton, from a completely different angle. Shortly after their marriage, the couple came to Amsterdam to spend the last week of their honeymoon in the bed of room 902, the presidential suite - a symbolic gesture of protest against the Vietnam war and support for world peace. Cor Jaring and Max Reneman together with Huub Mathijsen and Theo Kley visited John Lennon and Yoko Ono in their room in the Amsterdam Hilton to appoint them as honorary members of the 'Insektensekte' and hand over the Butterfly flag with the corresponding butterfly. The ceremony was graced by the Resistentie-orkest, an alternative chamber music trio that consisted of Kley, Mathijsen and Reneman. This portrait of John de Rooij shows the couple lying in bed under the flag which was originally commissioned by the Wereld Natuur Fonds. Once they learned the flags would also be used as an alert when Prince Bernhard went out hunting, they cancelled their order. With Robert Jasper Grootveld and others the bedroom visitors proclaimed 'Magies Sentrum Amsterdam' and several other follow-ups to Provo.

From July 2018 to 6 January, the Stedelijk Museum presented the largest exhibition to date on the eruption of avant-garde projects in 1960s Amsterdam. One of the most playful was "De Insektensekte (cult of insects). It was one of the first environmental protection movements in the Netherlands, […] one with a Magisch Amsterdam twist: all members were part of the Amsterdam alternative art scene, and it showed in their actions. Their alarm for environmental disasters was hanging a flag with a golden butterfly half-mast, they composed an opera to raise awareness about environmental pollution, and they treated Stedelijk director Edy de Wilde to a ‘waving bicycle’ made from parts found in scrap yards. [...] These astounding pioneers of the environmental movement [...] dreamt up all kinds of whimsical, outlandish and often unrealisable projects. In 1968, Kley, Reneman and Mathijsen formed the phonetically spelled ‘Exoties Kietsj Konservaatoriejum’ (‘Exotick Keetch Conservatrie’): a theatrical music company with an ever-changing lineup (the ensemble welcomed everyone able to build and play their own instrument)" (from the website of the Stedelijk Museum: stedelijk.nl/en/digdeeper/insect-sect).

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Auction Details

NRC15 - Modern & Contemporary Art

by
Adams Amsterdam Auctions
June 08, 2021, 06:30 PM CET

Herengracht 458, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, 1017 CA, NL

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