Lot 7
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Tony Cragg
After We've Gone, 2013.
Bronze with a dark brown patina
Estimate:
€ 120,000 - 180,000
$ 135,600 - 203,400
After We've Gone. 2013.
Bronze with a dark brown patina.
Signature and foundry mark on the bottom near the foot. Unique work. 87 x 44 x 41.5 cm (34.2 x 17.3 x 16.3 in). Accompanying base: 100 x 49 x 35 cm (39,4 x 19,3 x 13,8 in).
• Every perspective reveals different views of the abstract, elegant bronze.
• With superimposed layers and curves, Cragg creates a structure that oscillates between natural organism and artistic idea.
• The artist is one of the most important contemporary sculptors worldwide.
• Similar works were recently on display in the highly acclaimed solo exhibitions “Tony Cragg. Please Touch!” at the Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf (2024) and ‘Tony Cragg – Sculpture: Body and Soul’ at the Albertina in Vienna (2022).
• Tony Cragg's sculptures are in many museum collections, including the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., and the Tate Gallery, London.
PROVENANCE: From a European collection (acquired from the artist in 2013).
Private collection, North Germany).
LITERATURE: Cragg Foundation, Anthony Cragg. Works in Five Volumes, Volume IV (Sculpture 2001-2017), Cologne 2019, p. 563 (full-page illu. on p. 396).
Called up: June 6, 2025 - ca. 17.42 h +/- 20 min.
Bronze with a dark brown patina.
Signature and foundry mark on the bottom near the foot. Unique work. 87 x 44 x 41.5 cm (34.2 x 17.3 x 16.3 in). Accompanying base: 100 x 49 x 35 cm (39,4 x 19,3 x 13,8 in).
• Every perspective reveals different views of the abstract, elegant bronze.
• With superimposed layers and curves, Cragg creates a structure that oscillates between natural organism and artistic idea.
• The artist is one of the most important contemporary sculptors worldwide.
• Similar works were recently on display in the highly acclaimed solo exhibitions “Tony Cragg. Please Touch!” at the Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf (2024) and ‘Tony Cragg – Sculpture: Body and Soul’ at the Albertina in Vienna (2022).
• Tony Cragg's sculptures are in many museum collections, including the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., and the Tate Gallery, London.
PROVENANCE: From a European collection (acquired from the artist in 2013).
Private collection, North Germany).
LITERATURE: Cragg Foundation, Anthony Cragg. Works in Five Volumes, Volume IV (Sculpture 2001-2017), Cologne 2019, p. 563 (full-page illu. on p. 396).
Called up: June 6, 2025 - ca. 17.42 h +/- 20 min.
"If you make something with your hands, every change in line, volume, surface, silhouette, gives you a different thought or emotion. After several moves, you’re in unknown territory. Although I change material with my hands, the material itself changes my mind. It is a dialogue in which the material always has the last word."
Tony Cragg in an interview with Kate Kellaway, in: 'I’m most interested in the emotional qualities of things', The Guardian, March 15, 2017.
Nature remains a primary source of inspiration for Tony Cragg's extraordinary works. Yet, the artist does not seek to imitate nature as it exists, instead creating entirely new forms that have not yet been found in the reality surrounding us. In an intensive exploration of a wide range of materials, including glass, stainless steel, granite, wood, and bronze, the artist searches for new forms of expression to achieve perfect harmony with the material they are made of. The present work and its philosophical title, “After We've Gone,” plays with our habits of perception. With its elegant curves, expanding into many small bulges and rising upward, this structure resembles an organic form and evokes associations with living organisms. The heavy, compact bronze emanates an unexpected lightness through its multiple layers, creating an ambivalence between massiveness and elegant statics, liveliness, and a calm presence. The form appears familiar and strange at the same time: Cragg deliberately plays with our perception, opening up a rich spectrum of associations and questioning the boundaries between nature and art. [CH]
Tony Cragg in an interview with Kate Kellaway, in: 'I’m most interested in the emotional qualities of things', The Guardian, March 15, 2017.
Nature remains a primary source of inspiration for Tony Cragg's extraordinary works. Yet, the artist does not seek to imitate nature as it exists, instead creating entirely new forms that have not yet been found in the reality surrounding us. In an intensive exploration of a wide range of materials, including glass, stainless steel, granite, wood, and bronze, the artist searches for new forms of expression to achieve perfect harmony with the material they are made of. The present work and its philosophical title, “After We've Gone,” plays with our habits of perception. With its elegant curves, expanding into many small bulges and rising upward, this structure resembles an organic form and evokes associations with living organisms. The heavy, compact bronze emanates an unexpected lightness through its multiple layers, creating an ambivalence between massiveness and elegant statics, liveliness, and a calm presence. The form appears familiar and strange at the same time: Cragg deliberately plays with our perception, opening up a rich spectrum of associations and questioning the boundaries between nature and art. [CH]
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Tony Cragg
After We've Gone, 2013.
Bronze with a dark brown patina
Estimate:
€ 120,000 - 180,000
$ 135,600 - 203,400
Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Tony Cragg "After We've Gone"
This lot can be purchased subject to differential or regular taxation, artist‘s resale right compensation is due.
Differential taxation:
Hammer price up to 800,000 €: herefrom 32 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 800,000 € is subject to a premium of 27 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 800,000 €.
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 800,000 €: herefrom 27 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 800,000 € is subject to a premium of 21% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 800,000 €.
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 800,000 €: herefrom 32 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 800,000 € is subject to a premium of 27 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 800,000 €.
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 800,000 €: herefrom 27 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 800,000 € is subject to a premium of 21% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 800,000 €.
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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