It was expected that the Ketterer auction would be recorded with modern and contemporary art in its highest award to Gerhard Richter’s image of “Christiane and Kerstin”. However, the result for the attractive painting on the judge, in 1968, after the manner of a blurred black-and-white photography portraits of the little daughters of the collecting couple, Margot and Werner Schaefer, struck with 2.1 million euros of the expected lengths. The tax had been on 600,000 to 800,000 euros, the purchaser from Hong Kong, now, including buyer’s premium, more than 2.6 million euros to your bill.
at All offset, digital, written, and telephonic participation in the virus due to restricted access to the hall, and many of the remarkable revenue not to withhold closing. Alone judge came twice in the Top Ten with copies of his Gera Fuji “-series of 1996, which is 300,000 (estimate 200.000/300.000) and 250,000 euros (estimate 250.000/300.000) Celts”. The other winner of the Evening was Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: His after eighty years in a family-owned re-discovered “the village road with Apple trees” in 1907 doubled with 850.000 Euro Untertaxe and cost of the buyer, a collector of Swiss francs, gross and more than a Million euros. That didn’t stop him from acquiring Kirchner Stafelalp-painting “homecoming at the end of this year” from 1918 to 450,000 euros (300.000/400.000). Finally, Kirchner has delivered yet with the expressive woodcut “selling the shadow” by 1915 with 200,000 euros (80.000/100.000) one of the best results of the graph-auction.
Indeed, Nolde’s oil Painting “sun flower fell, with a Fox tail” – the Hauptlos of Classical Modernism, estimated at 500,000 to 700,000 and called for 480 000 Euro. But Feininger’s fog picture “Manhattan, Dusk succeeded” in the case of the median estimate of 260 000 Euro and went to a southern German collector; his late shining “Gaberndorf” exceeded 220,000 euros, the upper estimate easily. With a total of 240,000 euros Gabriele Münters “thaw in the village (Murnau)” (80.000/120.000) and an “Abstract head” by Jawlensky from the year 1921 (180.000/240.000) were equal.
Of restraint could also be in works of the time no speech is enjoyed. They contributed significantly to the overall results of the spring auctions, the Ketterer with 29.8 million euros, indicating, counting the book auction for 1.9 million euros and the buyer’s premium. With the hammer in the case of 460,000 Euro (300.000/400.000) fell to a six-blade scoring lithography-series of Cy Twombly at a Berlin collection and the small edition of two dozen copies printed for Robert Rauschenberg’s “Untitled Press” in 1971 as their first publication. With Dice and points fabrics-printed tensioned Sigmar Polke on the stretcher to go to these colorful carrier then with white paint gesturally; the result achieved in the framework of the estimate of 600,000 euros. The work goes to New York, the city of Andy Warhol and Keith Haring, which is the friend funny in Disney style as “Andy Mouse” with glasses and unruly hair to a color silkscreen (edition of 30), the doubled, with 200,000 euros of their Untertaxe. In addition to the successful Americans, William Copley, with his image of “Bonnie + Clyde” the Kiss, which climbed from 40,000 to 105,000 euros.
