As James Webb’s monumental view of the City of Cologne with the unfinished Cathedral – from the year 1870 to the end of may came in at Van Ham in the auction of ancient art as a Centerless to call it, was the hope that the paintings will remain in the Cathedral city – was met. A Cologne patron of the Museum work of 125.000 Euro value (Taxe 100.000/150.000) was; soon it will hang in the Cologne city hall in a prominent place. The pretty “Johann boy with the lamb of God” by the Sicilian painter Pietro Novelli (60.000/80.000) remained unsold. Adriaen van Utrecht’s lively genre picture “In the pantry”, with provenance from a side line of the Saxon Royal house, reached his Untertaxe of 60,000 euros (up to 80,000), and comes in a Berlin collection. For a Surprise to the market-fresh “Bridal procession,” by Marten van Cleve provided; estimated to be 5000 to 8000 Euro, he was only at 30,000 euros.
On the same day, a further Tranche of the SØR Rusche Collection as a curated event, “Old Masters Meet Contemporaries” with 41 pairs of the old masters, and time came under the Hammer. Jacob Ducks, and it’s impressive oil Painting “king Balthasar” in the gilded splendor frame exceeded his estimate is wide of the 50,000-Euro (15.000/20.000). Its modern counterpart, the “Queen” of the düsseldorf-based painter Miriam Vlaming from the year 2008, but remained with 1900 euros (2500/3500) under estimate. The “Holy Anna third” of the Cologne artist Gortzius Geldorp from the second half of the 16th century. Century goes for 13,000 Euro (8000/12.000) to the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum. Jan Asselijns “Noble horseman with his horse at a watering trough” was hit with a 20,000 Euro (25.000/30.000); and his modern counterpart, Nicola Samoris “Destino dell’occhio” reached 13,000 euros (50.00/80.00). Bidders contested the 2011 resulting scenario “screen Disaster” by the German artist Duo Secret Stars: Estimated at 600 to 900 Euro, fell to the Hammer at 17000 euros. Together, the two auctions are the “Classic Week were” 1.3 million Euro, versus an expectation of 1.2 to 1.6 million.
Just two weeks later, the “Modern Week” followed at Van Ham: To the great Surprise of Modern Georg Schrimpfs “girl at the window” from 1935, which was more than seventy years in the family private property in North Rhine-Westphalia: For 195.000 Euro, the oil Painting comes in a Hessian collection, the expectations were 50,000 to 70,000 euros. The actual Centerless, Hans Arps oil Painting on cardboard “Fronde et nombrils” of 1926 (300.000/500.000), remained unsold. The graceful Bronze of a kneeling by Georg Kolbe, for the first time in 1907 in the Berlin Secession issued, succeeded with 85,000 euros (60.000/80.000); Ewald Matarés 27-centimeter-long Bronze of a “Grazing KuhII” came to your Untertaxe of 70,000 Euro (up to 90,000). Karl Hofer’s “girl with towel” by 1947, the lower estimate of 50,000 Euro managed (to 70,000). And Mimmo Paladinos in 1981, created oversized triptych “La balena immalata” came to 80,000 euros (80.000/120.000).