Suspicious of the mixed creatures of humans and animal faces with skull-like skull, and the torch between the front legs to the viewer. Maria lassnig’s work, in 1985, created the oil Painting “The death is a Sphinx” measure a hundred times 115 inches and comes for 180,000 to 200,000 Euro on 19. June at the “Evening Sale” of Lempertz in Cologne under the Hammer. The house has enjoyed his events with a Modern and restructured as The departments are auctioned, divided into the “Day Sale” on January 20. June takes place, and the “Evening Sale” with 101 Free.
The evening offer is stated in terms of price of Lyonel Feininger’s “still life on a blue table” from the year 1911, with an estimate of 400,000 to 600,000 euros, closely followed by Pablo Picasso’s 1906 incurred, large-format graphite drawing on hand-made “Deux femmes nues se tenant”, for an expected 400,000 to 500,000 euros. Juan Gris’ cubist Arrangement “Raisins, carafe et livre” from 1922 to import 300,000 to 350,000 Euro. During August Macke in 1912, a “flower box with a cactus” to 71 times seventy centimeters banned (estimate of 220,000 to 250,000 Euro), it was twenty years later, the “dahlias”, which Alexej von Jawlensky devoted an oil Painting (140.000/160.000). Paula Modersohn-Becker, the somber paintings “children between the birch trunks”, and in 1902, shortly after her marriage to Otto Modersohn, was (180.000/220.000) comes. Modersohn held on a double view 1913 his third wife, the singer Louise modersohn-Breling,; verso in 1923 of him painted landscape, “autumn at the bog channel” (40.000/60.000).
