Lot 4 
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Katharina Grosse
Ohne Titel, 2011.
Acrylic on canvas
Estimate:
€ 120,000 - 180,000
$ 132,000 - 198,000
Ohne Titel. 2011.
Acrylic on canvas.
Signed, dated and inscribed with the work number "2011/1031 L" and the dimensions on the reverse. 180 x 150 cm (70.8 x 59 in).
[KA].
• Grosse's characteristic rainbow palette glows against light and dark color layers.
• The artist defies the boundaries of two-dimensionality and conjures up an immersive sense of space and infinity.
• Other works are in renowned collections around the world, including the Kunsthaus Zürich, the Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, the Istanbul Modern, the Staatliche Museen, Berlin, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
• The Staatsgalerie Stuttgart will honor Katharina Grosse in the upcoming "Große Landesausstellung 2025" (Grand State Exhibition).
The work is registered in the Studio Katharina Grosse, Berlin, under the archive number “2011/1031”. We are grateful for the kind support in cataloging this lot.
PROVENANCE: Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna (with a label on the reverse of the frame).
Private collection (acquired from the above in 2013).
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Called up: December 6, 2024 - ca. 17.06 h +/- 20 min.
Acrylic on canvas.
Signed, dated and inscribed with the work number "2011/1031 L" and the dimensions on the reverse. 180 x 150 cm (70.8 x 59 in).
[KA].
• Grosse's characteristic rainbow palette glows against light and dark color layers.
• The artist defies the boundaries of two-dimensionality and conjures up an immersive sense of space and infinity.
• Other works are in renowned collections around the world, including the Kunsthaus Zürich, the Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, the Istanbul Modern, the Staatliche Museen, Berlin, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
• The Staatsgalerie Stuttgart will honor Katharina Grosse in the upcoming "Große Landesausstellung 2025" (Grand State Exhibition).
The work is registered in the Studio Katharina Grosse, Berlin, under the archive number “2011/1031”. We are grateful for the kind support in cataloging this lot.
PROVENANCE: Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna (with a label on the reverse of the frame).
Private collection (acquired from the above in 2013).
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Called up: December 6, 2024 - ca. 17.06 h +/- 20 min.
Since she began her artistic career in the late 1980s, Katharina Grosse has pursued to expand the boundaries of the conventional painterly medium with relentless determination. The artist makes no distinction between painting, sculpture, and architecture. Nothing is an obstacle; the world is her canvas. Her in-situ paintings, for which she uses spray guns to apply blasts of vibrant colors directly onto her immediate surroundings, as well as onto found materials and large-format sculptures made of polyurethane, polystyrene, or cast metal, have made Grosse one of the most important and best-known abstract artists in contemporary art. Without a clear goal, she approaches her work as a pure process of artistic discovery. Neither the size of the format nor the variety of colors and the exact relationship between contrast and superimposition on the painting surface are determined in advance. On the contrary, Katharina Grosse focuses on the act of painting itself. She sees painting as a process-oriented technique characterized by flow and resistance, both in a mental and physical sense: "My paintings are 'performances' that condense emotions, intentions and structures" (Katharina Grosse, quoted from: Katharina Grosse. Studio Paintings 1988-2022, Berlin 2022, p. 193). She takes over entire spaces and places through her artistic intervention, transforming them into oversized installations.
The present work, "Untitled," from 2011, is a masterful reflection of Katharina Grosse's longstanding practice of in-situ painting. The surface of the canvas gives way to an immersive opening of depth, multidimensionality, and movement. The flooding colors fight over their territory, quickly overlapping and pressing against the sweeping brushstrokes and the dark background. The force with which the rainbow-like, spray-painted stencils are added makes them appear too small for the actual borders of the frame so that they press against the edges as if they could expand into infinity beyond them. While Grosse encourages the viewer to complete the work's cropped geometric boundary mentally, she has created a completely liberated work of art. [KA]
The present work, "Untitled," from 2011, is a masterful reflection of Katharina Grosse's longstanding practice of in-situ painting. The surface of the canvas gives way to an immersive opening of depth, multidimensionality, and movement. The flooding colors fight over their territory, quickly overlapping and pressing against the sweeping brushstrokes and the dark background. The force with which the rainbow-like, spray-painted stencils are added makes them appear too small for the actual borders of the frame so that they press against the edges as if they could expand into infinity beyond them. While Grosse encourages the viewer to complete the work's cropped geometric boundary mentally, she has created a completely liberated work of art. [KA]
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Katharina Grosse
Ohne Titel, 2011.
Acrylic on canvas
Estimate:
€ 120,000 - 180,000
$ 132,000 - 198,000
Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Katharina Grosse "Ohne Titel"
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.