Sale: 601 / Day Sale, Dec. 06. 2025 in Munich button next Lot 225

 

225
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Kaktus, Muschel und Schale, Ca. 1953.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 70,000 - 90,000

 
$ 81,200 - 104,400

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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
1884 - 1976

Kaktus, Muschel und Schale. Ca. 1953.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the upper left. Once more signed on the reverse of the stretcher. 65 x 73 cm (25.5 x 28.7 in).
[AR].

• Captivating formal clarity and brilliant colors.
• Still lifes play a key role in Schmidt-Rotluff's oeuvre.
• In the 1950s, he increasingly focused on his immediate surroundings and the “quiet life of things”, as he once put it.
• Acquired in 1973 and in family ownership ever since
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The work is documented in the Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation, Berlin.

PROVENANCE: Private collection, Canada (acquired in 1973).
Since then in family ownership.

Called up: December 6, 2025 - ca. 15.46 h +/- 20 min.




 

Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Karl Schmidt-Rottluff "Kaktus, Muschel und Schale"
This lot can only be purchased subject to regular taxation, artist‘s resale right compensation is due.

Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 29 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 23% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
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.

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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