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Willi Baumeister
Montaru mit Gondel VIII, 1954.
Collage. Different types of paper, pencil and p...
Post auction sale: € 20,000 / $ 21,000
Montaru mit Gondel VIII. 1954.
Collage. Different types of paper, pencil and paste and light turquoise cardboard.
Lower right signed and dated "8.54". With the estate stamp and the estate number "2015" on the reverse. 25.5 x 25.5 cm (10 x 10 in).
• Filigree paper work from the famous "Montaru" series.
• The different materials of paper, chalk and pencil create an effect of great density and presence.
• The collage is a fine example of Willi Baumeister's intensive exploration of different materials as a means of expression for the composition.
We are grateful to Mrs Felicitas Baumeister and Mrs Hadwig Goez, Archive Baumeister at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, for the kind support in cataloging this lot.
PROVENANCE: Artist's estate.
Archive Baumeister (estate number 2015).
Corporate Collection Ahlers AG, Herford (Grisebach 2013).
EXHIBITION: Willi Baumeister. Arbeiten auf Papier 1923-1954, Villa Grisebach Auktionen, Berlin, September 20 - October 19, 2013, cat. no. 54, p. 99 (color illu.).
LITERATURE: Dietmar J. Ponert, Willi Baumeister. Catalogue raisonné of drawings, gouaches and collages, Cologne 1988, no. 2270.
Collage. Different types of paper, pencil and paste and light turquoise cardboard.
Lower right signed and dated "8.54". With the estate stamp and the estate number "2015" on the reverse. 25.5 x 25.5 cm (10 x 10 in).
• Filigree paper work from the famous "Montaru" series.
• The different materials of paper, chalk and pencil create an effect of great density and presence.
• The collage is a fine example of Willi Baumeister's intensive exploration of different materials as a means of expression for the composition.
We are grateful to Mrs Felicitas Baumeister and Mrs Hadwig Goez, Archive Baumeister at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, for the kind support in cataloging this lot.
PROVENANCE: Artist's estate.
Archive Baumeister (estate number 2015).
Corporate Collection Ahlers AG, Herford (Grisebach 2013).
EXHIBITION: Willi Baumeister. Arbeiten auf Papier 1923-1954, Villa Grisebach Auktionen, Berlin, September 20 - October 19, 2013, cat. no. 54, p. 99 (color illu.).
LITERATURE: Dietmar J. Ponert, Willi Baumeister. Catalogue raisonné of drawings, gouaches and collages, Cologne 1988, no. 2270.
Willi Baumeister's oeuvre is structured by a sequence of different, in part clearly delineated creative phases in which he made structurally related works. The collage offered here is part of a large series of works from between 1953 and 1955, that make up the grand finale of the artist's late creative phase that lasted until immediately before his death. As a conversation between Will Grohmann and Willi Baumeister shows, the works from this œuvre complex, which includes oil paintings as well as collages, the artist "[..] thought of Mons = mountain and the biblical Ararat in the 'Montaru' series. When asked how he came up with 'Monturi', he said that the white sounded brighter to him than the black in 'Montaru' [..]." (quoted from: Will Grohmann, Willi Baumeister. Leben und Werk, Cologne 1963, p. 142). In fact, a white pictorial form occupies a large part of the image area in the Monturi works, while the black shapes dominates the Montaru works, as Baumeister called them. In an astonishing way, Baumeister created a synaesthetic complex of works here, which takes shape through, on the one hand, the visible forms of representation, and, on the other, through the titles. [EH]
132
Willi Baumeister
Montaru mit Gondel VIII, 1954.
Collage. Different types of paper, pencil and p...
Post auction sale: € 20,000 / $ 21,000
Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Willi Baumeister "Montaru mit Gondel VIII"
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.