Lot 13
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Günther Uecker
Ohne Titel (Baum), 2006.
Nails, ashes and glue on Wood trunk
Estimate:
€ 100,000 - 150,000
$ 107,000 - 160,500
Ohne Titel (Baum). 2006.
Nails, ashes and glue on Wood trunk.
Signed and dated on the trunk. Height: 133 cm (52.3 in).
• Particularly impressive and densely nailed tree.
• For the first time offered on the international auction market.
• The nail symbolizes the vulnerability of nature and mankind.
This work is registered in the Uecker Archiv under the number GU.06.003 and has been earmarked for inclusion in the forthcoming Uecker Catalogue Raisonné.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Walter Storms, Munich.
Private collection Southern Germany (since 2007, acquired from the above).
“Günther Uecker's art comes from direct experience. It feeds on alert contemporaneity, on sympathy, on participation, on walking along, on understanding.”
Friedhelm Menekkes, quoted from: Günther Uecker. Zwanzig Kapitel, 2005, p. 31.
Called up: June 7, 2024 - ca. 17.24 h +/- 20 min.
Nails, ashes and glue on Wood trunk.
Signed and dated on the trunk. Height: 133 cm (52.3 in).
• Particularly impressive and densely nailed tree.
• For the first time offered on the international auction market.
• The nail symbolizes the vulnerability of nature and mankind.
This work is registered in the Uecker Archiv under the number GU.06.003 and has been earmarked for inclusion in the forthcoming Uecker Catalogue Raisonné.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Walter Storms, Munich.
Private collection Southern Germany (since 2007, acquired from the above).
“Günther Uecker's art comes from direct experience. It feeds on alert contemporaneity, on sympathy, on participation, on walking along, on understanding.”
Friedhelm Menekkes, quoted from: Günther Uecker. Zwanzig Kapitel, 2005, p. 31.
Called up: June 7, 2024 - ca. 17.24 h +/- 20 min.
Günther Uecker is a constant commentator on the problems of the world and an unwavering fighter for understanding and change. He confronts things that bother him with openness and responds in his artistic language. With his "Trees" and "Forests", he addresses the theme of the vulnerability of man and nature. Under the title "Kunstpranger" (Art Pillory), he created his first tree sculpture in 1983 by nailing an elm tree at Galerie Brusten in Wuppertal. The idea was born in the fall of 1983 when Annelie Brusten happened to notice the forest workers in the park marking the 80-year-old elm tree. She learned that the ill tree was to be cut down and burned. Annelie Brusten brought the already well-known "ZERO" artist and art academy professor to Wuppertal. In his speech at the opening reception of the exhibition, Uecker decried the destruction of nature by man and declared the nails to be the "armor" with which he has "scaffolded the tree, made it strong". Further works, most of the multi-part creations, followed. The first “Nail Forest” from 1984 is at the Nationalgalerie in Berlin today. What all these works have in common is that Uecker equipped the sometimes smaller, sometimes larger tree trunks with a defensive crown of carpenter's nails and used a healing ointment consisting of ash and glue to close the tree's wounds. In the series of "Trees" or "Nail Forests", Uecker follows the basic principle of his artistic work, the theme of the fragile relationship between man and nature and the destruction of the foundations of human existence. [SM]
13
Günther Uecker
Ohne Titel (Baum), 2006.
Nails, ashes and glue on Wood trunk
Estimate:
€ 100,000 - 150,000
$ 107,000 - 160,500
Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Günther Uecker "Ohne Titel (Baum)"
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.