A slightly more damaged Islamic celestial globe from the 16th century. Century, estimated at 8000 Euro, climbed in the auction of ancient and modern art at Bassenge in Berlin with the award of 235,000 euros a stunning top position. The precious brass casting was purchased with a silver dipped star images laid against international competition by a private buyer from the Arab region. Hardly less spectacular is the dispute of two was, finally, from a South German old master collectors of prints of the Italian Renaissance artists auctioned: On 2800 Euro prized, scored Girolamo Fagiuolis copper engraving of “Adam and eve with the boys Abel” proud 75,000 euros, while Giulio Fontana’s etching “The battle of Cadore” (after Titian’s painting in the Venetian Palazzo Ducale) increased from 7500 to 85,000 euros. A Berlin-based prospect has invested 75,000 euros (estimate of 35,000) in Paolo Veronese’s grey washed pen and ink drawing of the “Madonna with saints Francis and George”. Albrecht Durer’s “Saint Jerome in the module” came up to 30.000 Euro (15.000). The declines suffered Rembrandt’s “hundred Guilder sheet”, Odilon Redons “old Chevalier” and Picasso’s etching “En la Taberna”.
To settle almost one hundred percent of a German private collection with almost 150 “Works on Paper”: your by Chinese connoisseurs, carefully observed, a core formed of almost thirty works of Käthe Kollwitz; an exorbitant price achieved with 26,000 euros (6000) four charcoal studies of a distinctive Arbeiterkopfs from the year 1904. From 750 to 14,000 Euro Max Slevogts spring study climbed out of the theme to “Ali Baba”. Alfred Kubin’s psychologically trenchant presentation of a case of monkey was a French bidder, the facility of 27,000 euros (7500) value. For 11,000 euros (about 15,000) sold to Emil Nolde’s color lithography was the “Big mill”.
At the auction of paintings by old and more recent masters of the estimated price for Wilhelm Leibls doubled in “self-portrait with a black hat”; the small-sized likeness of the grim-looking painter rose from the expected 15,000 to 30,000 euros. A “top Italian valley in the evening light” of the Frankfurt Carl Morgenstern improved from 2800 to 17,000 euros. A variety of Polish citizenship was formally from the house, as the auctioneer at 600 Euro, and called on the thumbnail of the eccentric Princess Izabela Lubomirska of the Hand of the monogram crap “B.”, a friend of Goethe and Jacques-Louis David, the – dressed always in bright blue at the courts of Europe, full of splendour enjoyed performances: 200 years after her death, unforgettable, was her gold-framed portrait of 10.000 Euro. As a tireless telephone bidder art friends from Luxembourg fought to the “Chiemsee” of their compatriot, Joseph Kutter, the cost of its acquirer, at the end of € 24,000 (4500). For 19,000 Euro (7500) to Norway, home of Rolf Neschs was brought-tone metal print “fishing boats in a calm sea, damped”.
