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Gabriele Münter
Teetisch mit Blumenvase und Sofa, 1910.
Oil on canvas
Post auction sale: € 126,000 / $ 132,300
Teetisch mit Blumenvase und Sofa. 1910.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in lower left. 56 x 49 cm (22 x 19.2 in).
• From the artist's most important creative phase in 1910. From 1909 to 1914, Münter spent inspiring and happy years with Kandinsky at her "Russian House" in Murnau.
• A Murnau still life with a great compositional unity.
• Contoured surface painting is a significant feature of the early Murnau works.
• Still lifes from the same year of creation are at, among others, the Lenbachhaus in Munich, the Vatican Museums in Rome, and the Schlossmuseum in Murnau.
• Our painting was created the same time as the important "Stillleben Grau", today at the Lenbachhaus in Munich, with which Gabriele Münter was one of only seven female artists represented at the first documenta.
PROVENANCE: Private collection Southern Germany.
Private collection Switzerland.
"If there is a formal model - and that was most certainly the case from 1908 - 13; it was Van Gogh through Jawlensky and his theories. (The talk of synthesis)." [sic]
Gabriele Münter, retrospect diary May 1911 in: Hoberg, Gabriele Münter 1994 pp. 45ff
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in lower left. 56 x 49 cm (22 x 19.2 in).
• From the artist's most important creative phase in 1910. From 1909 to 1914, Münter spent inspiring and happy years with Kandinsky at her "Russian House" in Murnau.
• A Murnau still life with a great compositional unity.
• Contoured surface painting is a significant feature of the early Murnau works.
• Still lifes from the same year of creation are at, among others, the Lenbachhaus in Munich, the Vatican Museums in Rome, and the Schlossmuseum in Murnau.
• Our painting was created the same time as the important "Stillleben Grau", today at the Lenbachhaus in Munich, with which Gabriele Münter was one of only seven female artists represented at the first documenta.
PROVENANCE: Private collection Southern Germany.
Private collection Switzerland.
"If there is a formal model - and that was most certainly the case from 1908 - 13; it was Van Gogh through Jawlensky and his theories. (The talk of synthesis)." [sic]
Gabriele Münter, retrospect diary May 1911 in: Hoberg, Gabriele Münter 1994 pp. 45ff
The curved sofa stood near the dining area in the Murnau "Russenhaus" (Russian house), which Gabriele Münter had purchased the year before our painting was made as a new home for her and her partner Wassily Kandinsky. In Murnau, the two artists found the right environment for a prolific artistic collaboration. In a stable life situation, out of a sense of an inner well-being and a personal liberation, a large number of important works were created at the Murnau house. Works that manifested newly found means of expression and wich would make for Münter's artistic breakthrough. During this crucial creative time, Gabriele Münter also made the present "Teetisch mit Blumenvase und Sofa" (Tea table with flower vase and sofa), a painting that already testifies to her recently developed artistic signature: the ability to reduce what she sees to essential forms and to freely use colors in their purest nature, detached from the impression of reality. She circumscribes the barely graduated color areas with narrow black contour lines and thus creates a strong composition characterized by a great unity and an enhanced expression. All objects shown, except for the vase with the flowers, are heavily cropped. The green table can only be identified as such by the vase on it. The opulent cushion, probably decorated with embroidery and appliqués, stands flat on a sofa fragmentarily suggested by the curved backrest. And yet the composition as a whole remains comprehensible at a glance. Staggering the abstract elements into an undefined space while depicting the objects in equally strong colors, Gabriele Münter has achieved something very special with this bold composition. No shadow, no perspective distracts the eye. It is a bold, colorful still life that shows how Gabriele Münter found a way to dematerialize the object. [EH]
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Gabriele Münter
Teetisch mit Blumenvase und Sofa, 1910.
Oil on canvas
Post auction sale: € 126,000 / $ 132,300
Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Gabriele Münter "Teetisch mit Blumenvase und Sofa"
This lot can be subjected to differential taxation plus a 7% import tax levy (saving approx. 5 % compared to regular taxation) 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.