Sale: 552 / Collection Bunte, Dec. 09. 2023 in Munich Lot 545


545
Conrad Felixmüller
Bildnis Anna (Anny) Feldmann, 1927.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 20,000 - 30,000

 
$ 21,000 - 31,500

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Bildnis Anna (Anny) Feldmann. 1927.
Oil on canvas.
Lower right signed, dated and inscribed. 91 x 70.5 cm (35.8 x 27.7 in).
[SM].

• In possession of the Feldmann family for decades and for the first time offered on the international auction market.
• Rudolf Feldmann was a Bielefeld silver- and goldsmith. He and his family were close friends of Böckstiegel and Felixmüller.
• Felixmüller felt that the long tradition of portrait painting was his vocation, it found its very own expression in an objective-realistic style with an expressionist notion
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PROVENANCE: Rudolf Feldmann Collection (from the artist).
Ever since family-owned.
Hermann-Josef Bunte Collection, Bielefeld.

EXHIBITION: Familienbande. Conrad Felixmüller – in Arrode, Museum Peter August Böckstiegel, Werther, April 9 - June 27, 2021, p. 29.
Peter August Böckstiegel und Conrad Felixmüller. Eine Künstlerfreundschaft, Galerie Ostendorff, Münster, March 28 - April 22, 2014, p. 64.
Conrad Felixmüller. Kunst ist eine historische Angelegenheit, Museum Haus Opherdicke, Kreis Unna, September 25, 2016 - February 26, 2017, p. 24, fig. p. 25, p. 153.
Hermann Stenner und seine Zeit, Kunstforum Hermann Stenner, Bielefeld, January 20 - August 18, 2019, cat. no. 56.

LITERATURE: Heinz Spielmann, Conrad Felixmüller. Monographie und Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, Cologne 1996, cat. no. 386.

"I am happy to see how poised FM rendered your beautiful and frail wife on canvas, like a blossom – and the hands are actually alive!"
Londa Felixmüller in a letter to the Feldmann family on March 25, 1927, quoted from: David Riedel (ed.), Conrad Felixmüller an Rudolf Feldmann: Briefe an einen Kunstfreund (1924–1958), Peter August Böckstiegel Stiftung, Werther 2021, p. 185.

Called up: December 9, 2023 - ca. 17.18 h +/- 20 min.





Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Conrad Felixmüller "Bildnis Anna (Anny) Feldmann"
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.