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Enzo Cucchi
Fucile (2-teilig), 1980.
Oil on canvas with colored glazed ceramic gun
Estimate:
€ 30,000 - 40,000
$ 34,800 - 46,400
Enzo Cucchi
1949
Fucile (2-teilig). 1980.
Oil on canvas with colored glazed ceramic gun.
Signed on the reverse, dated twice and illegibly inscribed. 203 x 230 cm (79.9 x 90.5 in). [CH].
• Enzo Cucchi uses a wide variety of techniques and means of expression, combining painting, drawing, and sculpture to create a broad repertoire of forms with complex signs and symbols.
• His art is not characterized by formal strength and conceptual rigor, but rather by imaginative power and meaningful content.
• Cucchi's homeland in the Marche region, its landscape, people, and regional legends are frequent elements of his personal iconography.
• His paintings from the 1980s, which are far removed from the present and oscillate between vision, idea, and dream, are the artist's most sought-after works on the international auction market.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin (stamped on the stretcher).
Art trade, Germany.
Private collection, southern Germany (acquired from the above in 2013, Ketterer Kunst, Munich).
Zedenek Felix, quoted from: Exhibition catalog Enzo Cucchi – Berge, Menschen, Licht. Gemälde und Zeichnungen 1995-1999, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg 1999, p. 5.
Called up: December 6, 2025 - ca. 17.01 h +/- 20 min.
1949
Fucile (2-teilig). 1980.
Oil on canvas with colored glazed ceramic gun.
Signed on the reverse, dated twice and illegibly inscribed. 203 x 230 cm (79.9 x 90.5 in). [CH].
• Enzo Cucchi uses a wide variety of techniques and means of expression, combining painting, drawing, and sculpture to create a broad repertoire of forms with complex signs and symbols.
• His art is not characterized by formal strength and conceptual rigor, but rather by imaginative power and meaningful content.
• Cucchi's homeland in the Marche region, its landscape, people, and regional legends are frequent elements of his personal iconography.
• His paintings from the 1980s, which are far removed from the present and oscillate between vision, idea, and dream, are the artist's most sought-after works on the international auction market.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin (stamped on the stretcher).
Art trade, Germany.
Private collection, southern Germany (acquired from the above in 2013, Ketterer Kunst, Munich).
Zedenek Felix, quoted from: Exhibition catalog Enzo Cucchi – Berge, Menschen, Licht. Gemälde und Zeichnungen 1995-1999, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg 1999, p. 5.
Called up: December 6, 2025 - ca. 17.01 h +/- 20 min.
281
Enzo Cucchi
Fucile (2-teilig), 1980.
Oil on canvas with colored glazed ceramic gun
Estimate:
€ 30,000 - 40,000
$ 34,800 - 46,400
Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Enzo Cucchi "Fucile (2-teilig)"
This lot can be purchased subject to differential or regular taxation, artist‘s resale right compensation is due.
Differential taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 34 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 29 % 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 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 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.
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 1,000,000 €: herefrom 34 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 29 % 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 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 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.
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.
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