Sale: 547 / Modern Art Day Sale, Dec. 09. 2023 in Munich Lot 438

 

438
Renée Sintenis
Großes Vollblutfohlen, 1940.
Bronze with black-brown patina
Estimate:
€ 150,000 - 170,000

 
$ 157,500 - 178,500

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Großes Vollblutfohlen. 1940.
Bronze with black-brown patina.
Berger/Ladwig 170. Buhlmann 153. Plinth with the monogram and the foundry mark "H. Noack Berlin". Height: 108.6 cm (42.7 in).
Cast by art foundry Hermann Noack, Berlin. [JS].

• One of the rare large bronzes by Renée Sintenis.
• Another copy is in the collection of the Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
• Life-size version of the small sculpture "Vollblutfohlen (Thoroughbred Foal) by Sintenis from 1939.
• Renée Sintenis is one of the most important German sculptors of modernism and has been a formative figure in the Berlin art scene since the 1920s.
• Animal sculptures are Sintenis' artistic trademark.
• Sintenis is the creator of the Berlin Bear (1956)
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PROVENANCE: Dr. Meyer-Struckmann-Stiftung, Essen.
Bank collection Sal. Oppenheim, Cologne.

LITERATURE: (each different copy, selection):
Hanna Kiel, Renée Sintenis, Berlin 1956, illu. p. 77.
Dieter Honisch, Die Nationalgalerie Berlin, Recklinghausen 1979, S. 376.

"In the true sense of the word, an almost idolatrous love and adoration for horses lives in my heart above everything else. This reverence in me always seems to be filled with mysterious meaning. I cannot explain it with my intellect, I would almost like to say that it is a metaphysical matter."
Rene Sintenis, quoted from: Zwischen Freiheit und Moderne. Die Bildhauerin Renée Sintenis, Bonn 2019, p. 48.

Called up: December 9, 2023 - ca. 18.24 h +/- 20 min.




 

Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Renée Sintenis "Großes Vollblutfohlen"
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.