This week’s find is a product of genius, the tubular steel wonder “Wassily Chair” by Marcel Breuer. It is a part of the Mass Modern auction at the Wright on August 11-12. Marcel Breuer is a Hungarian born architect and furniture designer of the modernist Bauhaus movement. He was one of […]
Auctionata’s Abstract Art of the 20th & 21st Century auction features affordable post-war and contemporary originals, prints, and multiples by well-known artists. The originals include abstract compositions by Wilfried Moser, Hans Platschek, Guido Strazza, Selim Turan and op art founder Victor Vasarely. Turkish artist Selim Turan took a major role […]
Zero is silence. Zero is the beginning. Zero is round. Zero spins. Zero is the moon. The sun is Zero. Zero is white. The desert Zero. The sky above Zero. The night. –from a 1963 poem by Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, and Günther Uecker Forged in the pessimism and […]
A painting by the German Expressionist master Max Pechstein sold for €700,000, double its price estimate. Ketterer Kunst, who held this auction, also holds the world record for Max Pechstein with “Weib mit Inder auf Teppich (Vorderseite), Früchte II (Rückseite)”. This piece was estimated € 600.000-800.000 and sold for € 3.480.000 […]
This Porsche 930 is mentioned in 2015 in the strictly limited edition of the book: “40 – Porsche 911 Turbo Air-Cooled Years 1975 – 1998“ by the internationally accepted Porsche expert Norbert Franz. It is on auction on Auctionata until June 11, 3 pm CET. With only 2,880 units built between […]
Since 1989, German auction house Lempertz has been holding auctions of contemporary art, ranging from post-war era to the present day, twice a year in May/June and November/December in Cologne. The May/June sale of 2016 is schedules for June 4. The carefully curated selection includes the crème de la crème of German […]
Lempertz presents a museum quality selection of Old Master Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture that are to be auctioned on May 21, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. The highlight of this year’s Old Masters auction “The Peasant Wedding” by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, is estimated at €1,000,000–1,200,000. The 42 x 59 cm […]
The carefully curated selection of objects were opened to auction today, May 19 and will continue on tomorrow, May 20 with silver, porcelain, earthenware, furniture, glass and ceramics. This catalogue presents 82 most interesting and significant pieces to offer from the period 1600-1900, which will be auctioned at the evening auction. Highlight of […]
Established German auction house Lempertz offers specialist departments in fine arts, decorative arts, modern art, contemporary art, photographs, Asian art, and more. As the oldest family owned auction house in Europe, Lempertz’s history reaches back to 1798 as an antiquarian book shop that offered auctions and it was officially founded as an auction […]
These two paintings by Michael Meyer depict female nudes and were both created in 1982. The first one is called ‘Beautiful Young Woman’, an abstract composition in vivid, spontaneous brushwork and toned blue colours. The second on is called ‘Nude on a chair’ and depicts a blond woman standing on […]