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Rupprecht Geiger
E 219, um 1955.
Tempera on canvas
Post auction sale: € 50,000 / $ 52,500
E 219. um 1955.
Tempera on canvas.
Dated and titled "219/54 1954" on the reverse, as well as inscribed with a direction arrow and "R Geiger". 86.5 x 91 cm (34 x 35.8 in).
[KT].
• Geiger's formally reduced paintings from the 1950s are among the artist's most sought-after works on the international auction market.
• Gently modulated composition that is all the more expressive for its reduction.
• Alongside Mark Rothko, Ellsworth Kelly and Barnett Newman, Geiger joins the ranks of the luminaries of Color Field painting.
• Geiger showed his famous color modulations in several documenta exhibitions between 1959 and 1977.
• Rupprecht Geiger's paintings can be found in important collections like the Nationalgalerie Berlin, the Museum Folkwang, Essen, and the Lenbachhaus in Munich.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Müller, Cologne ( with the label on the reverse).
Dobermann Collection, Münster.
Grässlin Collection, St. Georgen.
Private collection, Bavaria (acquired in 2010).
EXHIBITION: Rupprecht Geiger, Galerie Samlaren, Stockholm, 1956.
Rupprecht Geiger. Gemälde. Kunst- und Museumsverein, Wuppertal, October 17 - November 21, 1965, cat. no. 12.
PINC kommt! Rupprecht Geiger. Schauwerk Sindelfingen, November 19, 2017 - September 16, 2018, p. 76 (illu.).
Rot X Stahl, Rupprecht Geiger and Alf Lechner, Lechner Museum, Ingolstadt, February 20 - June 14, 2020.
LITERATURE: Rupprecht Geiger Gesellschaft, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich (ed.), edited by Pia Dornacher and Julia Geiger, Rupprecht Geiger. Catalogue raisonné 1942-2002. Gemälde und Objekte, architekturbezogene Kunst, Munich 2003, no. 163 (ill.).
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Auction house Lempertz, Cologne, auction no. 971, December 3, 2010, lot 39 (illu.).
"Color, like light, deserves to be classified as an element - fire, water, air, color, light and earth."
Rupprecht Geiger, quoted from: Jürgen Morschel, Künstler. Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, Munich 1988/92, p. 2.
Tempera on canvas.
Dated and titled "219/54 1954" on the reverse, as well as inscribed with a direction arrow and "R Geiger". 86.5 x 91 cm (34 x 35.8 in).
[KT].
• Geiger's formally reduced paintings from the 1950s are among the artist's most sought-after works on the international auction market.
• Gently modulated composition that is all the more expressive for its reduction.
• Alongside Mark Rothko, Ellsworth Kelly and Barnett Newman, Geiger joins the ranks of the luminaries of Color Field painting.
• Geiger showed his famous color modulations in several documenta exhibitions between 1959 and 1977.
• Rupprecht Geiger's paintings can be found in important collections like the Nationalgalerie Berlin, the Museum Folkwang, Essen, and the Lenbachhaus in Munich.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Müller, Cologne ( with the label on the reverse).
Dobermann Collection, Münster.
Grässlin Collection, St. Georgen.
Private collection, Bavaria (acquired in 2010).
EXHIBITION: Rupprecht Geiger, Galerie Samlaren, Stockholm, 1956.
Rupprecht Geiger. Gemälde. Kunst- und Museumsverein, Wuppertal, October 17 - November 21, 1965, cat. no. 12.
PINC kommt! Rupprecht Geiger. Schauwerk Sindelfingen, November 19, 2017 - September 16, 2018, p. 76 (illu.).
Rot X Stahl, Rupprecht Geiger and Alf Lechner, Lechner Museum, Ingolstadt, February 20 - June 14, 2020.
LITERATURE: Rupprecht Geiger Gesellschaft, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich (ed.), edited by Pia Dornacher and Julia Geiger, Rupprecht Geiger. Catalogue raisonné 1942-2002. Gemälde und Objekte, architekturbezogene Kunst, Munich 2003, no. 163 (ill.).
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Auction house Lempertz, Cologne, auction no. 971, December 3, 2010, lot 39 (illu.).
"Color, like light, deserves to be classified as an element - fire, water, air, color, light and earth."
Rupprecht Geiger, quoted from: Jürgen Morschel, Künstler. Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, Munich 1988/92, p. 2.
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Rupprecht Geiger
E 219, um 1955.
Tempera on canvas
Post auction sale: € 50,000 / $ 52,500
Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Rupprecht Geiger "E 219"
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.