Sale: 548 / Contemporary Art Day Sale, Dec. 08. 2023 in Munich Lot 109

 

109
Fritz Winter
Altes Zeichen, 1949.
Oil on paper, laid on backing board
Estimate:
€ 15,000 - 20,000

 
$ 15,750 - 21,000

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Altes Zeichen. 1949.
Oil on paper, laid on backing board.
Lower right signed and dated. With an inscription on the backing board. 49.9 x 70 cm (19.6 x 27.5 in), the full sheet. Backing board: 50,8 x 71 cm (20 x 27,9 in).
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• Impressive document the new spirit in abstract post-war modernism on a quest for new forms of expresion.
• Fritz Winter is considered a key protagonist of this era.
• The year this work was made, he was a founding member of the group "Zen 49" together with Rupprecht Geiger, Willi Baumeister and Rolf Cavael.
• For the first time offered on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).
• Starting in autumn of 2023, the Neue Galerie in Kassel honors the artist with the solo show "Fritz Winter. documenta-Künstler der ersten Stunde"
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We are grateful to the Fritz-Winter-Foundation at Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich, for the kind support in cataloging this lot.

PROVENANCE: Fritz-Winter-Stiftung an den Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich (until 1984, inventory no. 66, later inventory no. HST 1156).
Galerie Gunzenhauser, Munich.
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.
Ever since family-owned.

EXHIBITION: Fritz Winter. Ein Überblick über sein Werk, Galerie Franke, Munich, 1975.

LITERATURE: Gabriele Lohberg, Fritz Winter. Leben und Werk mit Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde und einem Anhang der sonstigen Techniken, Munich, 1986, cat. no. 889 (fig.).
Galerie Gunzenhauser (ed.), Aus den Beständen der Galerie, catalog 7, Munich 1984/85, pp. 74f (fig.).

Called up: December 8, 2023 - ca. 13.12 h +/- 20 min.




 

Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Fritz Winter "Altes Zeichen"
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 19 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium. As an exception, the reduced VAT of 7 % is added for printed books.

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.