Lot 498 
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498
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Zwischen den Vorhängen, 1967.
Watercolor
Estimate:
€ 15,000 - 20,000
$ 16,050 - 21,400
Zwischen den Vorhängen. 1967.
Watercolor.
Signed in lower right, lower left inscribed with the work number "6728". Titled and dated on the reverse. On off-white wove paper. 69.5 x 49.8 cm (27.3 x 19.6 in), the full sheet.
Further works from the Dr. Maier-Mohr Collection will be offered in our Evening Sale and Contemporary Art Day Sale on Friday, June 7, 2024 – see collection catalog "A Private Collection - Dr. Theo Maier-Mohr".
• This composition is characterized by unusually strong contrasts and places emphasis entirely on the vertical.
• Still life plays a central role in Schmidt-Rottluff's late work.
• He increasingly turned to his immediate surroundings and the "quiet life of things", as he himself once put it.
• In " Zwischen den Vorhängen" (Between the Curtains), he opens the view into a bright distance, creating an atmospheric space at the transition between inner and outer world.
• For the first time offered on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).
The work is documented in the archive of the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation, Berlin.
PROVENANCE: die kleine galerie, Kampen/Sylt.
Dr. Theo Maier-Mohr Collection, Hesse (acquired from the above in 1970).
Ever since family-owned.
"I think most of the pictures are about processes; I always wanted to show the essence and the quiet life of things."
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, 1960, quoted from: Hans Kinkel, Das stille Leben der Dinge, in: Gunther Thiem (ed.), Schmidt-Rottluff. Retrospektive, Munich 1989, pp. 69-70.
Called up: June 8, 2024 - ca. 19.12 h +/- 20 min.
Watercolor.
Signed in lower right, lower left inscribed with the work number "6728". Titled and dated on the reverse. On off-white wove paper. 69.5 x 49.8 cm (27.3 x 19.6 in), the full sheet.
Further works from the Dr. Maier-Mohr Collection will be offered in our Evening Sale and Contemporary Art Day Sale on Friday, June 7, 2024 – see collection catalog "A Private Collection - Dr. Theo Maier-Mohr".
• This composition is characterized by unusually strong contrasts and places emphasis entirely on the vertical.
• Still life plays a central role in Schmidt-Rottluff's late work.
• He increasingly turned to his immediate surroundings and the "quiet life of things", as he himself once put it.
• In " Zwischen den Vorhängen" (Between the Curtains), he opens the view into a bright distance, creating an atmospheric space at the transition between inner and outer world.
• For the first time offered on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).
The work is documented in the archive of the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation, Berlin.
PROVENANCE: die kleine galerie, Kampen/Sylt.
Dr. Theo Maier-Mohr Collection, Hesse (acquired from the above in 1970).
Ever since family-owned.
"I think most of the pictures are about processes; I always wanted to show the essence and the quiet life of things."
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, 1960, quoted from: Hans Kinkel, Das stille Leben der Dinge, in: Gunther Thiem (ed.), Schmidt-Rottluff. Retrospektive, Munich 1989, pp. 69-70.
Called up: June 8, 2024 - ca. 19.12 h +/- 20 min.
In the present watercolor ""Zwischen den Vorhängen", Karl Schmidt-Rottluff created a composition based on unusually strong contrasts and with a strong emphasis on the vertical. Through the flower with its jagged leaves accentuated in green and blue, he guides the beholder's eye from a foreground framed by black curtains into the brightly lit center and opens the view into the distance. As is so characteristic of the artist's late work, the watercolor offers a glimpse into his private environment, into the rooms and objects of his everyday life. They are a personal dialog with the objects, accounts of the formal beauty of things and an examination of their nature. "I believe that most paintings are about processes," Schmidt-Rottluff once wrote, "I always wanted to show the essence and the quiet life of things." (Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, 1960). In just a few words, he sums up the special expressiveness of his still lifes. In his late watercolors in particular, however, there is often a further, spiritual level that goes beyond the pure apprehension of the object. The view from the interior into a more or less defined outside world, known throughout art history, is referenced in " Zwischen den Vorhängen" and also emphasized by the unusually strong contrast of light and dark. The increasing fragmentation of the line and the abstraction of the object in the late creative phase results in new, atmospheric spaces where the boundary between the representational and the spiritual can no longer be clearly identified. [AR]
498
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Zwischen den Vorhängen, 1967.
Watercolor
Estimate:
€ 15,000 - 20,000
$ 16,050 - 21,400
Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Karl Schmidt-Rottluff "Zwischen den Vorhängen"
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.