Sale: 554 / Modern Art Day Sale, June 08. 2024 in Munich Lot 481

 

481
Hans Purrmann
Früchtestillleben, 1935/36.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 20,000 - 30,000

 
$ 21,400 - 32,100

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Früchtestillleben. 1935/36.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in lower right. 60 x 73 cm (23.6 x 28.7 in).
The work is documented in the Hans Purrmann Archive under the numbers 33 and 787. [AR].
• Alongside landscapes and portraits, still lifes were among Hans Purrmann's preferred genres.
• Powerful work with a composition dominated by the ripe splendor of the fruit.
• In 1935, around the time the work was made, the artist left Germany and took over the administration of the German Artists' Foundation Villa Romana in Florence.
• His still lifes can be found in important museum collections like the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, and the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
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PROVENANCE: Monastery Raitenhaslach, Bavaria (stored by Dr. Robert Purrmann, the artist's son, for safekeeping during the war).
Central Collecting Point, Munich (December 11, 1945 - April 28, 1948, no. 16455).
Dr. Robert Purrmann (reobtained from the above on April 28, 1948).
Dr. Hugo Max Collection (inscribed on the reverse).
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.

EXHIBITION: Hans Purrmann zum 100. Geburtstag, Mittelrheinisches Landesmuseum, Mainz 1980, cat. no. 48.

LITERATURE: Christian Lenz, Felix Billeter, Hans Purrmann. Die Gemälde II 1935-1966. Catalogue raisonné, Munich 2004, no. 1936/06 (illu. in color).

Called up: June 8, 2024 - ca. 18.47 h +/- 20 min.




 

Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Hans Purrmann "Früchtestillleben"
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.