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Joseph Beuys
Oder nehmen wir jetzt AMALGAM?, 1981.
Cardboard box, cord,Drawing and Label. Contents...
Post auction sale: € 16,000 / $ 18,560
Joseph Beuys
1921 - 1986
Oder nehmen wir jetzt AMALGAM?. 1981.
Cardboard box, cord,Drawing and Label. Contents: Bottles filled with chemicals and other restoration materials.
Signed and dated in the center front. Titled at the top and with a sketch of the Büderich Gate, the note “Restaur. Büderich” and the list “paints, steel wool, wax, wood clamps, pots + gas cartridge, rubber [.illegible.], wooden blocks, turpentine". Stamped at the top and front with “Tree donations to: Magistrate of the City of Kassel [..] VW 220 Joseph Beuys 7000 Oaks.” (transl.). Unique object. 36 x 55 x 44 cm (14.1 x 21.6 x 17.3 in). [AW].
• In 1958, Joseph Beuys designed a memorial with a wooden gate for the “Old Church Tower” in Meerbusch-Büderich. In 1981, the gate was vandalized and Beuys helped to restore it.
• The sketch on the cardboard shows the gate and the holes to be restored, which are treated with wood and the disputed substance amalgam.
• With this work, Beuys questions impure, toxic mixtures and their consequences, as well as the search for alternative solutions.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Germany (acquired from the artist).
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from the above).
EXHIBITION: Joseph Beuys. Skulpturen und Objekte, Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin, February 20-May 1, 1988, cat. no. 77 (illustrated on p. 220).
On permenent loan at the Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf from 2007 to 2020.
Joseph Beuys und Düsseldorf, Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, November 30, 2007-December 1, 2009.
Joseph Beuys: Wo ist Element 3?, Ketterer Kunst, Berlin, March 26-May 22, 2021.
LITERATURE: Heinz Althöfer, La Radiologia Per il Restauro, Fiesole (FI) 1997, p. 103 (illu. plates. 22, 23).
Marie Althöfer, Kunsttransporte, Cologne University, PhD thesis 2006 (no p.).
1921 - 1986
Oder nehmen wir jetzt AMALGAM?. 1981.
Cardboard box, cord,Drawing and Label. Contents: Bottles filled with chemicals and other restoration materials.
Signed and dated in the center front. Titled at the top and with a sketch of the Büderich Gate, the note “Restaur. Büderich” and the list “paints, steel wool, wax, wood clamps, pots + gas cartridge, rubber [.illegible.], wooden blocks, turpentine". Stamped at the top and front with “Tree donations to: Magistrate of the City of Kassel [..] VW 220 Joseph Beuys 7000 Oaks.” (transl.). Unique object. 36 x 55 x 44 cm (14.1 x 21.6 x 17.3 in). [AW].
• In 1958, Joseph Beuys designed a memorial with a wooden gate for the “Old Church Tower” in Meerbusch-Büderich. In 1981, the gate was vandalized and Beuys helped to restore it.
• The sketch on the cardboard shows the gate and the holes to be restored, which are treated with wood and the disputed substance amalgam.
• With this work, Beuys questions impure, toxic mixtures and their consequences, as well as the search for alternative solutions.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Germany (acquired from the artist).
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from the above).
EXHIBITION: Joseph Beuys. Skulpturen und Objekte, Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin, February 20-May 1, 1988, cat. no. 77 (illustrated on p. 220).
On permenent loan at the Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf from 2007 to 2020.
Joseph Beuys und Düsseldorf, Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, November 30, 2007-December 1, 2009.
Joseph Beuys: Wo ist Element 3?, Ketterer Kunst, Berlin, March 26-May 22, 2021.
LITERATURE: Heinz Althöfer, La Radiologia Per il Restauro, Fiesole (FI) 1997, p. 103 (illu. plates. 22, 23).
Marie Althöfer, Kunsttransporte, Cologne University, PhD thesis 2006 (no p.).
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Joseph Beuys
Oder nehmen wir jetzt AMALGAM?, 1981.
Cardboard box, cord,Drawing and Label. Contents...
Post auction sale: € 16,000 / $ 18,560
Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Joseph Beuys "Oder nehmen wir jetzt AMALGAM?"
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.
We kindly ask you to notify us before invoicing if you wish to be subject to regular taxation.
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.
The artist‘s resale right compensation is VAT-exempt.
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.
We kindly ask you to notify us before invoicing if you wish to be subject to regular taxation.
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.
The artist‘s resale right compensation is VAT-exempt.
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