Sale: 554 / Modern Art Day Sale, June 08. 2024 in Munich Lot 487


487
Lyonel Feininger
Entering Swinemünde, 1932.
Watercolor and pen and ink drawing
Estimate:
€ 20,000 - 30,000

 
$ 21,400 - 32,100

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Entering Swinemünde. 1932.
Watercolor and pen and ink drawing.
Lower left signed, lower right dated and titled in bottom center. On laid paper. 24.5 x 28.5 cm (9.6 x 11.2 in), size of sheet.
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• A seascape in rarely seen vibrant colors with the characteristic, subtle ink lines.
• Feininger had a great passion for this subject: ships, the sea, clouds and figures are combined in varying constellations to create ever new pictorial compositions.
• From the last year of the Dessau Bauhaus, which the National Socialist local council decided to close in September 1932.
• For the first time offered on the international auction market (source: artprice.com)
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Achim Moeller, director of the Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York - Berlin, has confirmed the authenticity of this work, which is registered in the archive of the Lyonel Feininger Project under the number 1923-05-03-24. The work comes with a certificate.
Additional information was provided by Achim Moeller, The Lyonel Feininger Project LLC, New York - Berlin.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Thomas, Munich.
Private collection Düsseldorf (acquired from the above).
Private collection Northern Germany.

Called up: June 8, 2024 - ca. 18.57 h +/- 20 min.





Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Lyonel Feininger "Entering Swinemünde"
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.