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Adolf Richard Fleischmann
Totem No. 1, Composition 378, 1963.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 24,000 - 28,000

 
$ 27,840 - 32,480

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Adolf Richard Fleischmann
1892 - 1968

Totem No. 1, Composition 378. 1963.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right. Once more signed and dated on the reverse, as well as titled and inscribed with the dimensions in inches. 153 x 81 cm (60.2 x 31.8 in).
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• Large-format work from the artist's mature and sought-after late period.
• Maximum effect through deliberate reduction of form and color.
• Exhibited in the famous Stable Gallery in New York in the year of its creation, as well as in the artist's first major posthumous retrospective in 1973.
• Offered on the international auction market for the first time (source: artprice.com)
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PROVENANCE: Deyhle Collection, Stuttgart.
Hamburgische Landesbank.
Private collection of Dr. Freerk Valentien, Stuttgart.

EXHIBITION: Stable Gallery, New York, 1963 (solo exhibition).
14. Ausstellung Deutscher Künstlerbund, Essen, 1966 (group exhibition, label on the reverse).
Württ. Kunstverein, Stuttgart, 1966 (solo exhibition).
Ulmer Museum, 1973 (retrospective exhibition).
Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Münster, 1973 (retrospective exhibition).

LITERATURE: Rolf Wedewer, Adolf Fleischmann, Stuttgart 1977, CR no. O 370 (full-page illu. in black and white on p. 143).
Alfred M. Fischer, Adolf Fleischmann (1892-1968), PhD thesis Tübingen 1976; CR no. A63/31.

Called up: December 6, 2025 - ca. 16.26 h +/- 20 min.




 

Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Adolf Richard Fleischmann "Totem No. 1, Composition 378"
This lot can be purchased subject to differential or regular taxation, artist‘s resale right compensation is due.

Differential taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 34 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 29 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 22 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The buyer's premium contains VAT, however, it is not shown.

Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 29 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 23% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The statutory VAT of currently 7 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium.

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Calculation of artist‘s resale right compensation:
For works by living artists, or by artists who died less than 70 years ago, a artist‘s resale right compensation is levied in accordance with Section 26 UrhG:
4 % of hammer price from 400.00 euros up to 50,000 euros,
another 3 % of the hammer price from 50,000.01 to 200,000 euros,
another 1 % for the part of the sales proceeds from 200,000.01 to 350,000 euros,
another 0.5 % for the part of the sale proceeds from 350,000.01 to 500,000 euros and
another 0.25 % of the hammer price over 500,000 euros.
The maximum total of the resale right fee is EUR 12,500.

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