Sale: 547 / Modern Art Day Sale, Dec. 09. 2023 in Munich Lot 421

 

421
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Blumenstilleben, Late 1920.
Watercolor and ink brush
Estimate:
€ 20,000 - 30,000

 
$ 21,000 - 31,500

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Blumenstilleben. Late 1920s.
Watercolor and ink brush.
Signed in lower right. On firm watercolor paper. 50.8 x 35.8 cm (20 x 14 in), the full sheet. [JS].

• Schmidt-Rottluff is the uncontested master of the watercolor among the "Brücke" artists.
• Painterly executed flower still life in expressive liberated colors.
• Sold to a Swiss private collection by the Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett in 1959, ever since family-owned
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The work is documented in the archive of the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation, Berlin.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Northern Germany
Private collection Switzerland (acquired in 1959, Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, 34th auction, lot 860).
Private collection Southern Germany (inherited from the above).

LITERATURE: Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett Roman Norbert Ketterer, Moderne Kunst, 34th auction, November 20 and 21, 1959, cat. no. 860 (fig. plate 52).

"With his unique method, Schmidt-Rottluff established the watercolor as a genre on par with his paintings. In terms of size, composition and painterly execution, they are of equal rank. For Schmidt-Rottluff, who was formative for German Expressionism with the artist group "Brücke" and who deliberately pursued an anti-academic and spontaneous method guided by sensation, regarding the immediate rendition of what he saw and felt as paramount criteria for an unadulterated expression, the watercolor and its facile and simple handling was the technique of his choice in order to capture his impressions directly >in front of nature<."
Christiane Remm, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Aquarelle, Brücke-Museum Berlin 2011, p. 9.

Called up: December 9, 2023 - ca. 18.00 h +/- 20 min.




 

Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Karl Schmidt-Rottluff "Blumenstilleben"
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.

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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.

The artist‘s resale right compensation is VAT-exempt.