Brooklyn/New York 1953
Untitled (Shark 7)
2008
Charcoal on mounted paper. 228.6 x 152.4 cm (frame dimension 240 x 163 cm). Framed under glass. Monogrammed and dated ‘RL’ (joined) ’08’.
Estimated price
€400.000
La tornata delle aste di contemporaneo del 3 dicembre da Lempertz a Colonia si annuncia interessate, con due importanti collezioni private. Tra gli highlights due lavori di Günther Uecker da una collezione privata europea partono da una stima rispettivamente di 700,000 e 1,000,000 di euro. “Omaggio al quadrato” di Joseph Albers, opera del 1962 firmata e monogrammata, è stimata €300,000-500,000, mentre due importanti opere in ovatta di Gotthard Graubner sono offerte con una valutazione di €250,000-350,000.
Wendorf/Mecklenburg 1930
Spirale II
1997
Nails and latex paint on canvas on wood. 200 x 200 x 15 cm. Signed, dated and titled ‘SPIRALE II Uecker ’97’ on wood verso, with dimensions and directional arrow. – Traces of studio.
Estimated price
€700.000 – €1.000.000
Bottrop 1888 – 1976 New Haven
Homage to the Square
1962
Oil on Masonite. 101 x 101 cm. Framed. Monogrammed and dated ‘A62’ (scratched). – Some crackling.
This work will be included in the forthcoming Josef Albers Catalogue Raisonné being prepared by the Anni and Josef Albers Foundation, Orange, Connecticut.
The present work is registered in The Josef Albers Foundation, Orange, Connecticut (with label verso)
Estimated price
€300.000 – €500.000
“Squalo Bianco”, l’iperrealistico e sovradimensionato (228,6 x 152,4 cm) disegno a carboncino di Robert Longo dalla serie „Perfect Gods“,verrà aggiudicato al miglior offerente partendo da €380,000/400,000.
Tra gli altri top lot: un’opera giovanile Fernando Botero datata 1965 (€240,000- 260,000), un imponente disegno su carta di Sigmar Polke, stimato €120,000. Anche Lucio Fontana compare in catalogo con un’opera del 1966 (€100,000-150,000), mentre un disegno di Cy Twombly del 1963/64 è valutato €100,000-150,000. Ancora in catalogo lavori di: Gerhard Richter, Günther Fruhtrunk, Adolf Luther, Imi Knoebel e della sempre più popolare Katharina Grosse.
Rosario de Santa Fé (Argentina) 1899 – 1968 Varese
Matrice di incisione
1966
Steel, scratched and perforated. 80 x 60 cm. Signed and dated ‘I.Fontana 66’ (scratched) and with dedication to the printer Giorgio Upiglio. – Traces of studio as well as firmly mounted to panel.
The present work is registered under the number 3654/4 in the Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milan.
Estimated price
€100.000 – €150.000
L’Arte moderna e la fotografia contemporanea sono invece di scena oggi, 2 dicembre. Tra i lotti più importanti del catalogo di fotografia si segnalano due C-Print di Thomas Struths: dalle serie Tokyo (€25/28.000) e ‘Paradies’ (40/50.000), un album polaroid di Thomas Demand, 1990 (€8/10.000) e, tra i capolavori del bianco e nero, Uran di Gerhard Richter (€20/25.000).
Geldern 1954
Sonnenaufgang in den Bergen bei Kiso-Fukushima, Japan
1987
Chromogenic print on Agfa paper, printed 1994. 25.3 x 36.1 cm (30.3 x 40.5 cm). Signed, dated, titled and editioned in pencil on the verso. Print 11 from an edition of 25 (+ 5 A.P.).Estimated price
€2.000 – €3.000
Per l’asta di Arte Moderna sono presentati numerosi lavori espressionisti, tra i quali: un dipinto del 1912 di Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, nella sua migliore fase espressionista (Gordon 246; stima: €1,300,000-1,500,000), e ancora, dello stesso autore, la tela Häuser im Schnee, datata 1917 (€500,000-600,000). Lempertz offre ancora un raro dipinto di Emil Nolde del 1918, stimato €500,000-600,000, e un importante acquerello di George Grosz, Soirée (1922), offerto per €250,000-350,000; insieme a dipinti di Max Liebermann (€220,000-300,000), Serge Poliakoff (€70,000 -100,000).
![Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Aschaffenburg 1880 - 1938 Frauenkirch near Davos Mädchen in Südwester 1912 Oil on canvas. 51 x 56 cm. In a frame designed by the artist. Signed 'E. L. Kirchner' in blue-black lower left and titled 'Mädchen im [sic] Südwester' in blue brush verso. - Two Basel estate stamps "NACHLASS E.L.KIRCHNER" verso, the larger one inscribed "Be/Ba 1" in black brush. - A small loss of colour in the central left area of the painting, restored by the artist and backed with canvas patches verso. A short, professionally restored tear in the upper canvas overlap. Gordon 246Estimated price €1.300.000 - €1.500.000](http://www.artslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Kirchner.png)
Aschaffenburg 1880 – 1938 Frauenkirch near Davos
Mädchen in Südwester
1912
Oil on canvas. 51 x 56 cm. In a frame designed by the artist. Signed ‘E. L. Kirchner’ in blue-black lower left and titled ‘Mädchen im [sic] Südwester’ in blue brush verso. – Two Basel estate stamps “NACHLASS E.L.KIRCHNER” verso, the larger one inscribed “Be/Ba 1” in black brush. – A small loss of colour in the central left area of the painting, restored by the artist and backed with canvas patches verso. A short, professionally restored tear in the upper canvas overlap.
Gordon 246Estimated price
€1.300.000 – €1.500.000
Nolde near Tondern 1867 – 1956 Seebüll
Der Jäger
1918
Oil on canvas. 68.5 x 48.5 cm. Framed. Signed ‘Emil Nolde.’ in blue upper right. Inscribed ‘Emil Nolde: “Der Jäger.” on the back of the stretcher upper left. – Old nailing, the stretcher with traces of colour. The left edge of the canvas has been cut and flush mounted to the wood on the front with nails. The other sides with canvas overlap, the lower one painted. – In fine, original condition.
Urban 821
Estimated price
€500.000 – €600.000
1893 – Berlin – 1959
Soirée
1922
Watercolour, pen and ink and pencil on firm paper with 3 perforated margins. 49.2 x 37.2 cm. Signed ‘Grosz’ in ink in old German lower right. – The colours very fresh, the paper slightly browned, a short professionally restored marginal tear to the right. Register marks in pencil in the corners.
With an expertise by Ralph Jentsch. The work is to be included in the catalogue raisonné of the works on paper by Gerorge Grosz. Estimated price
€250.000 – €350.000
Lempertz offre inoltre in una “silent auction” un sipario teatrale che Salvador Dalí produsse per il balletto Mad Tristan („Tristan Fou“), prodotto a New York nel 1944: l’opera misura 8,76 x 14,76 e rappresenta Tristano e Isotta in forme surrealiste. Il “più grande quadro surrealista al mondo” è esposto nella sede di Bruxelles e Lempertz accetta offerte fino al 3 dicembre (stima a richiesta)
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