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Willi Baumeister
Ländliche Komposition (Violettes Bild), 1948.
Oil, synthetic resin and filler on fiberboard
Estimate:
€ 50,000 - 70,000
$ 53,000 - 74,200
Ländliche Komposition (Violettes Bild). 1948.
Oil, synthetic resin and filler on fiberboard.
Signed, dated "Nov 48" and barely legible inscribed on the reverse. 53.7 x 64.6 cm (21.1 x 25.4 in).
Mentioned as "Ländliche Komposition" in the older catalogue raisonné (Grohmann, 1963), while Baumeister called it "Violettes Bild" in his own collection index.
Up until February 4 2024, the Museum Gunzenhauser in Chemnitz shows the comprehensive exhibition "Das Kreative geht dem Unbekannten entgegen. Willi Baumeister und sein Netzwerk". [CH].
• From the heyday of Baumeister's important series "Metaphysical Landscapes" (1944-1954), which is considered the pinnacle of Baumeister's artistic oeuvre of the post-war era.
• Part of a southern German private collection for almost 45 years.
• In these works, the artist created a symbiosis of landscape and abstract formal elements.
• By using synthetic resin and putty, Baumeister achieved an impressive haptic surface effect that emphasizes the prehistoric character of his seemingly archaic repertoire of forms.
• Baumeister exhibited his work at the XXIV Venice Biennale in the year it was made.
• Comparable paintings from this series are in important public collections like the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Städel in Frankfurt am Main.
PROVENANCE: Woldemar Klein Collection, Baden-Baden (with a note on the reverse).
Private collection.
Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich.
Private collection.
Roman Norbert Ketterer, Campione d'Italia.
Private collection Frankfurt a. Main.
Galerie Pels-Leusden, Berlin.
Private collection Süouthern Germany (acquired from the above in 1980).
LITERATURE: Peter Beye/Felicitas Baumeister, Willi Baumeister. Catalogue raisonné of paintings, vol. II, Ostfildern 2002, p. 553, no. 1412 (black-and-white illu.).
Will Grohmann, Willi Baumeister. Leben und Werk, Cologne 1963, no. 1023.
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 214th auction, June 2 - 4, 1976, lot 76 (illu.).
Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 36th auction, November 26 - 28, 1979, lot 136 (color illu.).
"The 'Metaphysical Landscapes' mark the apex of the development of the 1940s [..]."
Peter Beye, cited in: Beye/Baumeister, Willi Baumeister. Werkkatalog der Gemälde, vol. I, p. 18.
Called up: December 8, 2023 - ca. 13.06 h +/- 20 min.
Oil, synthetic resin and filler on fiberboard.
Signed, dated "Nov 48" and barely legible inscribed on the reverse. 53.7 x 64.6 cm (21.1 x 25.4 in).
Mentioned as "Ländliche Komposition" in the older catalogue raisonné (Grohmann, 1963), while Baumeister called it "Violettes Bild" in his own collection index.
Up until February 4 2024, the Museum Gunzenhauser in Chemnitz shows the comprehensive exhibition "Das Kreative geht dem Unbekannten entgegen. Willi Baumeister und sein Netzwerk". [CH].
• From the heyday of Baumeister's important series "Metaphysical Landscapes" (1944-1954), which is considered the pinnacle of Baumeister's artistic oeuvre of the post-war era.
• Part of a southern German private collection for almost 45 years.
• In these works, the artist created a symbiosis of landscape and abstract formal elements.
• By using synthetic resin and putty, Baumeister achieved an impressive haptic surface effect that emphasizes the prehistoric character of his seemingly archaic repertoire of forms.
• Baumeister exhibited his work at the XXIV Venice Biennale in the year it was made.
• Comparable paintings from this series are in important public collections like the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Städel in Frankfurt am Main.
PROVENANCE: Woldemar Klein Collection, Baden-Baden (with a note on the reverse).
Private collection.
Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich.
Private collection.
Roman Norbert Ketterer, Campione d'Italia.
Private collection Frankfurt a. Main.
Galerie Pels-Leusden, Berlin.
Private collection Süouthern Germany (acquired from the above in 1980).
LITERATURE: Peter Beye/Felicitas Baumeister, Willi Baumeister. Catalogue raisonné of paintings, vol. II, Ostfildern 2002, p. 553, no. 1412 (black-and-white illu.).
Will Grohmann, Willi Baumeister. Leben und Werk, Cologne 1963, no. 1023.
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 214th auction, June 2 - 4, 1976, lot 76 (illu.).
Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 36th auction, November 26 - 28, 1979, lot 136 (color illu.).
"The 'Metaphysical Landscapes' mark the apex of the development of the 1940s [..]."
Peter Beye, cited in: Beye/Baumeister, Willi Baumeister. Werkkatalog der Gemälde, vol. I, p. 18.
Called up: December 8, 2023 - ca. 13.06 h +/- 20 min.
105
Willi Baumeister
Ländliche Komposition (Violettes Bild), 1948.
Oil, synthetic resin and filler on fiberboard
Estimate:
€ 50,000 - 70,000
$ 53,000 - 74,200
Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Willi Baumeister "Ländliche Komposition (Violettes Bild)"
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.
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.