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ART MAGAZINE FALL 2015 Our Fall Sales 2015 Achenbach Art Auction XXL Large Format Works and Installations September 30, 2015 Preview: September 25-29, 2015 Jewellery & Watches November 12, 2015 Fine Art November 13, 2015 European Applied Arts November 14, 2015 Preview: November 6-11, 2015 Contemporary Art November 26, 2015 Modern Art November 26, 2015 Discoveries November 25, 2015 Preview: November 19-23, 2015 Asian Art December 3, 2015 Rugs and Tapestries December 4, 2015 Preview: November 28 – December 2, 2015 Cover: Jörg Immendorff (1945 – 2007) Komm Jörch wir gehen Bronze, green-black patina Ca. 205 x 145 x 150 cm Estimate: € 25.000 Result: € 288.750 EDITORIAL 2 | 3 Otto Piene, and Adolf Luther. The Brazilian assembled quickly. Of particular interest were ZERO artist Almir Mavignier also achieved an Chinese crafts, paintings from China and Tibet international auction record. Artists such as and the area of Netsuke—a category in which Sigmar Polke, Andy Warhol, or Konrad Kla- Trudel Klefisch passionately specializes and has pheck also surpassed all expectations. achieved renown. In the Modern Sale, long-time favorites Not only the regular auction business has such as Willi Baumeister, Karl Hofer, and Pablo occupied us over the past months. In recent Picasso led the field. A unique aspect of the years, VAN HAM Art Publications has regularly sale was the large number of bronzes by Fritz produced authoritative catalogue raisonnés Klimsch, whose catalogue raisonné was just on internationally known artists. We are published by VAN HAM Fine Art Publishing. The pleased to announce that, to commemorate sale of a collection from Hessen contributed 16 the 60th anniversary of the death of Karl works, all of which were successfully sold. Hofer, we have published a raisonné of the The catalogue for the Fine Art Spring Sale artist’s sketchbooks. The catalogue is available featured our new and generous layout. The for immediate order. Through the expertise sale demonstrated a clear tendency among of Prof. Dr. Dr. Presler, a member of the Karl collectors toward the Impressionists. A light- Hofer Committee (established by VAN HAM), infused painting by Gustave Loiseau produced the most recent catalogue meets international a remarkable result of 179,000 euros. The standard of scholarship. The catalogue raisonné artist Robert Sterl also achieved once again an was introduced by Presler in his lecture “Born international auction record in our sale. in the Ecstasy of First Sight” and a VIP preview We are thrilled to already be able to an- of the Modern and Contemporary Art Sale. nounce a particular highlight in the upcoming This was not the only event that carried us Fine Art sale. The estate of the German- through the season. Of particular note is the American artist Carl von Marr (1858-1936) symposium for art market professionals titled will be offered for sale. It contains numerous “Changing Art Markets: More Work, Different paintings, drawings, and studies, as well as Skills,” which took place in January. Over 100 valuable furniture and decorative art objects. art historians from across Germany gathered Well-known in his day, the artist assembled a at VAN HAM to discuss the workings of the significant collection. The upcoming sale will be art market and career opportunities - a unique Dear Friends of not only an opportunity to discover a new ar- event that VAN HAM has hosted since 2001. VAN HAM Fine Art Auctions, tist, but also to acquire these little-known works After this thrilling inaugural spring season in their original, well-maintained condition. in our new headquarters, we look forward to The first spring auction season in our new In the category of European Applied Arts, more successes in the year’s second half. Take headquarters was also the strongest in VAN we are pleased to report strong sale results as advantage of an excellent market position and HAM’s history. For this record-setting season, well as announce a promising collection to be sales environment—our specialists and I would we owe particular thanks to the success of the offered in the upcoming fall sale. This season, be pleased to advise you and accept your Achenbach Art Auction. It superseded all ex- it was once again especially unusual and consignments. pectations and became a sale for superlatives. museum-quality pieces that drew outstanding Including approximately 2,300 lots, it was the results. An ornate drinking vessel with a figure With best wishes from Cologne largest contemporary art sale that has ever ta- of Neptune from St. Petersburg and dating to ken place in Germany. It attracted indescriba- 1885 and an exquisite Queen Anne cabinet ble media attention and solidified VAN HAM’s with mirrors from the early eighteenth century status as an auction house with expertise in highlighted the sale. For the fall, we will be and commitment to contemporary art. The offering the Boretius Collection, one of the sale’s leitmotif was Jörg Immendorff’s “Komm few collections dedicated to faience from Jörg wie gehen,” which set a new auction re- north and western Germany. The collection cord for the artist with a sale price of 288,750 will debut in our catalogue. euros. Anyone who missed their chance in July Last, but certainly not least, the Jewellery will have a second opportunity in September, Spring Sale had much to offer. The sale built Markus Eisenbeis when primarily large-format works will be smoothly on the successes of auctions past. As (General Partner) offered for sale. We look forward to providing a result, VAN HAM continues to hold a secure our clients with more outstanding paintings, position at the top of the German market—a sculptures, photographs, and installation art. position it has held for eight years. Undeniably, The scope is broad; the works are innovative. the sale’s highlight was a diamond necklace Selbstverständlich boten auch die üblichen set with a fine, natural pearl drop, which sold Of course, the auctions across all categories for 83,000 euros. Natural pearls and high-carat in our regular sales calendar also contributed diamonds remain highly desired among buyers. their own share of highlights. For the Con- For the second time, VAN HAM joined temporary Sale, the selection of works was so forces with Kunsthandel Klefisch to organize attractive to buyers that the saleroom barely its Asian Art Sale. After setting a striking ex- had standing room available. Above all, it was ample in its debut season, the Spring Sale also the established, household names that led the proved to be an utter success. This demonstra- sale—ZERO artists such as Heinz Mack, tes that a strong international market has been CONTEMPORARY NEXT SALE: NOV. 25 + 26 2015 CONSIGNMENTS: THRU EARLY OCTOBER Our Experts in Modern and Contemporary Art Robert van den Valentyn [email protected] Phone +49 (221) 92 58 62-19 Hellei Schadkami [email protected] Phone +49 (221) 92 58 62-22 Martina Dellmann [email protected] Phone +49 (221) 92 58 62-50 Hilke Hendriksen [email protected] Phone +49 (221) 92 58 62-35 Ann-Marie Wieckhorst [email protected] Phone +49 (221) 92 58 62-62 4 | 5 “A few more chairs, please!” The high. However, another ZERO great did over 7 million euros, the sale marks the best auctioneer’s call passed to the logistics achieve an international auction record—Al- spring sale in history of our auction house. department within just minutes of opening mir Mavignier, a Brazilian artist who has been A buyer-friendly market and an outstanding the saleroom. But even those few chairs were in the shadows for far too long. His work selection of works made it possible. not sufficient. A whole group of collectors “Deformed Square” was consigned for sale by had to content themselves with the standing- the estate of an important, southern German Robert van den Valentyn room-only saleroom – an inconvenience that theoretician, who acquired it directly from the was surely appeased by the thrilling sale that artist. The work was fresh-to-the-market. followed. Many groups of works by artists such as Heinz Mack (1931) Once again, it was a ZERO artist who Otto Piene, Sigmar Polke, or Andy Warhol, Dynamic Structures in Black brought in the day’s top hammer price. In were sold almost entirely. Gerhard Richter’s 1962 | Resin on nettle this instance, the sale marked the second- 21 editions featured in a special section of the 129.5 x 170 cm highest result every achieved for a work catalogue and proved to be especially popular. Estimate: € 80.000 by the artist Heinz Mack. With a result of All of the works were sold, in part with Result: € 482,500 482,500 euros, it barely missed the all-time fantastic price increases. With a total result of ZERO Right Adolf Luther (1912 – 1989) Lichtstehle | 1980 Mixed media (metal, Plexiglas, 12 concave glass lenses) 302 x 65 x 10 cm Estimate: € 40.000 Result: € 55.000 Left Almir de Silva Mavignier (1925) Deformed Square 1954/1955 | Oil on canvas 60 x 60 cm Estimate: € 25.000 Result: € 89.500 *Int. auction record for this artist Otto Piene (1928 – 2014) „rot, rot, rot“ | 2003 Mixed media (fire gouache) on canvas | 70 x 95 cm Estimate: € 50.000 Result: € 96.000 6 | 7 Right Adolf Luther (1912 – 1989) Lichtstehle | 1980 Mixed media (metal, Plexiglas, 12 concave glass lenses) 302 x 65 x 10 cm Estimate: € 40.000 Result: € 55.000 Left Almir de Silva Mavignier (1925) Deformed Square 1954/1955 | Oil on canvas 60 x 60 cm Estimate: € 25.000 Result: € 89.500 *Int.
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    Press Release The Harvard Art Museums present Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55 Showcases artwork largely unknown to American audiences by modern German artists working during the most tumultuous time in that country’s history. Hans Uhlmann, Male Head | Männlicher Kopf, 1942. Steel sheet. Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, FrK 4237/1995. © 2017 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Photo: Jürgen Diemer. Cambridge, MA November 17, 2017 (updated January 16, 2018) The Harvard Art Museums’ newest special exhibition, Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, will be on view from February 9 through June 3, 2018. The first exhibition of its kind, Inventur examines a largely unaddressed moment in modern German art—from just before the end of World War II to the decade just after—and features more than 160 works by nearly 50 artists, including women who were integral to exhibitions at the time but whose work has often been ignored. Much of the artwork presented has never been on view outside Germany. Taking its name from a 1945 poem by Günter Eich, the exhibition focuses on modern art created at a time when Germans were forced to acknowledge and reckon with the atrocities of World War II and the Holocaust, the country’s defeat and occupation by the Allies, and the ideological ramifications of the fledgling Cold War. Chosen for the way it helps characterize the art of this period, the German word Inventur (inventory) implies not just an artistic stocktaking, but a physical and moral one as well—the reassurance of one’s own existence as reflected in the stuff of everyday life.