301st Sale- March 7/8, 2025
Old fine arts from a Karlsruhe company collection & modern art from southern German private collectors
The 301st auction on Friday/Saturday, March 7/8, 2025, will focus on paintings from the Golden Age of the Netherlands, Flanders and England from the 17th-19th centuries from an old Karlsruhe company collection; original works and modern prints from various southern German collections form the second focus, as well as Asian art, antiques, porcelain, jewelry, furniture and much more.
Highlights of modern art include several prints by Beuys a. the measuring cylinder “Rose für direkte Demokratie” from 1973 (estimate: € 1000-1500 / reserve price: € 20), Marc Chagall’s signed color lithograph from 1967 “Le cirque au clown jaune” (estimate: € 4000-4500 / reserve price: € 20), the four heads of Algerian girls in pastel by Émile Deckers, 1929 (€ 4000-6000 / reserve price: € 900), two bronze sculptures Halbakte by Willi Kissmer (estimates: € 3500-4000 / reserve prices: € 900), Karl Schmidt-Rottluff’s large signed woodcut “Maria” from 1918 (estimate: € 6000-8000 / reserve price: € 20), the large signed drawing “Kartoffelernte I” by Max Pechstein, 1930 (estimate: € 15000-16000 / reserve price: € 8000), several prints by Günther Uecker, including 4 signed sand prints from the portfolio “Huldigung an Hafez” from 2015 (estimates: € 3500-4000/ reserve price: € 20), and the shimmering flowerbed in oil by the Fauvist Louis Valtat from 1915 from an old French private collection (estimate: € 16000-18000 / reserve price: € 6500), to name but a few. There are also interesting bequests from artists such as Eberhard Dänzer with 6 originals and over 100 prints, Karl-Georg Hirsch with 39 woodcuts and Alejo Vidal-Quadras Veiga with 28 works.
Among the 17th/18th century old fine arts to be auctioned are the oil painting entitled “The great carriage Match at Newmarket – 29th August 1750” by a British horse painter (estimate: € 2500-3000 / reserve price: € 500), the 17th century oil painting “La main chaude” attributed to Hieronymus Janssens (estimate: € 7000-8000 / reserve price: € 1000), the large “Italian”, wildly romantic landscape attributed to Adam Christiaensz Pynacker, oil painting from around 1660 (estimate: € 7000-8000 / reserve price: € 500), and the full-length portrait of John 20th Earl of Crawford and Lindsay in oil from around 1730 attributed to Richard Waitt (estimate: € 2000-2500 / reserve price: € 750). Works from the 19th and early 20th century include the seascape with sailing boats under a cloudy evening sky by Louis Douzette in oil (estimate: € 4000-6000/ reserve price: € 800), the fine, probably Lübeck market view by Hermann Linde in oil (estimate: € 3000-4000 / reserve price: € 750) and the Italian landscape with rider attributed to Conrad Peter Schreiber (estimate: € 3000-4000 / reserve price: € 900).
Small private collections are always good for surprises! For the Asiatica section, for example, they brought us a blue and white incense burner with fenghuang, Wanli period of the Ming dynasty around 1600 (estimate: € 4000-6000 / reserve price: € 900), a blue and white three-foot burner, probably Ming period, 15th century (estimate: € 900-1200 / reserve price: € 300), for lovers of Japanese art a museum cloisonné vase attributed to Hayashi Kodenji from the Meiji period (estimate: € 2000-3000 / reserve price: € 600) and three color woodcuts from the Edo period from the “100 Ghost Stories” series by Hokusai Katsushika (estimate: € 1500-2000 / reserve price: € 500).
Porcelain collectors are also in for a treat this time around. The rare allegorical porcelain group with Apollo and the four elements from 1782 and a putto with a leopard as an allegory of summer from around 1755/60, both Frankenthal (estimate: € 2500-3000 / reserve price: € 800 resp. estimate: € 900-1200 / reserve price: € 300), a Napoléon tête à tête, a mocha service with Sèvres marks in a traveling case (estimate: € 2500-3000 / reserve price: € 800) and several fine Meissen figures, including the rare mythological sculpture “Amor feeding the nightingales”, a design by Rudolph Hölbe from around 1900 (estimate: € 2500-3000 / reserve price: € 800). In addition to silver, glass, beautiful jewelry (including a 1.53 ct diamond ring and designer pieces), religious objects, clocks, musical instruments (including a Höfner 500/1 violin bass, the legendary “Beatles Bass”, 1965-67), old books and artist monographs, a large Roman and a Celtic head from an old French private collection as well as two interesting pieces of furniture, namely coiffeuses one Art Deco from around 1930 and one by Luigi Massoni for Poltrona-Frau, Italy of the 1970s, should be highlighted.