Sale: 554 / Modern Art Day Sale, June 08. 2024 in Munich Lot 497


497
Renée Sintenis
Junger Elefant, 1926.
Bronze with dark brown patina
Estimate:
€ 20,000 - 30,000

 
$ 21,400 - 32,100

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Junger Elefant. 1926.
Bronze with dark brown patina.
Right hind leg with the monogram "RS", left hind leg also monogrammed "R.S.". Höhe: ca. 8.5 cm (3.3 in). [JS].

• Renée Sintenis is one of the most important German sculptors of Modernism and was a formative figure in the Berlin art scene in the 1920s.
• Animal sculptures are Sintenis' artistic trademark.
• Sintenis captured the elephant's characteristic movement in bronze in a fascinating way.
• Sintenis is the mother of the Bear, Berlin's heraldic animal (1956)
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PROVENANCE: Private collection Berlin.

LITERATURE: (selection, each different copy)
Ursel Berger / Günther Ladwig (ed.), Renée Sintenis. Das plastische Werk, Berlin 2013, p. 106, no. 086 (illu.).
Britta E. Buhlmann, Renée Sintenis. Werkmonographie der Skulpturen, Darmstadt 1987, no. 220.
Gustav Eugen Diehl (ed.)R. Sintenis, Berlin ne year (1927), no. 38.
Georg Kolbe Museum, Renée Sintenis. Plastiken, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik, Berlin 1984, no. 25.

Called up: June 8, 2024 - ca. 19.10 h +/- 20 min.





Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Renée Sintenis "Junger Elefant"
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.