Sale: 561 / Contemporary Day Sale, Dec. 07. 2024 in Munich Lot 352

 

352
Horst Janssen
Die rote Nase, 13. Februar 1983, 1983.
Watercolor and gouache over pencil
Estimate:
€ 14,000 - 18,000

 
$ 15,400 - 19,800

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Die rote Nase, 13. Februar 1983. 1983.
Watercolor and gouache over pencil.
With the artist's signature and the date “13 2 83” on the right. Signed and inscribed “Horst Janssen Sønderjyllands Kunstmuseum Tønder” at the bottom. On glassine. 54.9 x 38.6 cm (21.6 x 15.1 in), size of sheet.
The work serves as a template for a poster, published by St. Gertrude, Galerie St. Gertrude, Hamburg. [CH].

• Horst Janssen is one of the great German graphic artists of the second half of the 20th century.
• His apt, often ironic portraits are among the most important motifs of his entire oeuvre.
• International breakthrough: In 1980, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Busch-Reisinger Museum (Harvard Art Museums), Cambridge, held solo exhibitions of his drawings and graphic works (followed by a traveling exhibition through several American museums).
• In 1982 Janssen participated in the Venice Biennale for the second time
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PROVENANCE: Pia Zadora Collection, Los Angeles.
From a Swiss collection.

LITERATURE: Dierk Lemcke (ed.), Horst Janssen: Selbstbildnis 1945-1993. Neugier, Variation, Balance, Verwandlung, Angeber X, Paranoia, Manipulation, Groteske, Hamburg 1994, cat. no. 168 (with a full-page illu. in color).

"Janssen [is] not only an overbearingly charismatic genius actor, but also a draughtsman and etcher of undeniable originality."
From an article in “Der Spiegel”, on the occasion of the publication of the first Horst Janssen biography, October 7, 1984, Der Spiegel 41/1984.

"He left behind such an enormous and bizarre, but also eloquent oeuvre that two lives of 65 years each would hardly have been enough."
Rudolf Augstein, journalist, publisher and founder of "Der Spiegel" after Horst Janssen's death in 1995.

Called up: December 7, 2024 - ca. 16.54 h +/- 20 min.




 

Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Horst Janssen "Die rote Nase, 13. Februar 1983"
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.

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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.