Two pictures by Renoir lead the “Selected Works” on the first evening when Karl & Faber auctions art from Impressionism to the present day on July 14th and 15th: “Jeunes femmes dans un jardin”, painted around 1895, comes with an estimate of 300,000 to 400,000 euros, and the equally fragrant “Paysage avec femme assise au milieu” from 1918, which the artist bequeathed to his son Jean according to notes on the stretcher, before it was temporarily part of the collection of the famous Parisian art dealer and collector Paul Guillaume found, is looking for a new home for 350,000 to 450,000 euros.

At that time Auguste Herbin had already tried his hand at cubism, one thinks to recognize the head of a smoker in his “Composition cubiste” from 1913 (estimate 30,000 / 40,000 euros). It goes even further with French art, where Paul Signac and Henri Manguin are represented with landscapes, while the Parisian-born Sonia Delaunay-Terk stayed with geometric abstraction until her late work, as her gouache "Rythme-couleur" from 1966 shows (30,000 / 50,000 ). Hans Hartung was already a French citizen when he set three compact abstract shapes on a lemon-yellow background for “T-1970-H37” in 1970 (150,000 / 200,000). Finally, as early as 1922, Max Ernst was drawn to the surrealists in Paris, where “Oiseaux spectraux” was created in 1932, an often exhibited example of the depictions of birds (250,000 / 350,000) that can be understood as the artist's alter ego.

Experts judge Wilhelm Morgner's ornamentally entwined “Blue Boy with a Scythe” from 1911 as of “outstanding importance” in the work of the Soest artist. In addition to his monogram, the picture, fresh from the market, also bears the name and date of Georg Tappert, teacher and artist-advising friend of Morgner (100,000 / 150,000), who fell young in West Flanders. In the graphic, Munch's woodcut “The Kiss IV” from 1902 stands out, the last version of the famous motif (120,000 / 150,000) that merges the two figures.

The offer with art from 1945 onwards contains more than a hundred works from Hans Burchard von Harling's collection, almost exclusively monochrome, mostly white works. It starts with Picasso's ceramic “Tête au masque” (6000/8000), touches the Zero artists, including Heinz Mack with an aluminum relief (8000 / 12,000), brings a black and white collage of Palermo to the desk (8000 / 12,000) or Also a long stretch of work by Herbert Zangs, whom the collector, as a close friend, gave the opportunity to use the workshops of the Mercedes-Benz factory in Sindelfingen as a studio for several years.

Turi Simeti is not missing either, his “Scultura in tela sagomata” from 1995 (4000) fits the works of other artists from the Milanese circle around Lucio Fontana, who come from another private collection: Paolo Scheggi varied Fontana's principle of expansion of the canvas into space with his “Zone riflesse”, here three canvases, one on top of the other, painted in the same blue, opening up oval cut-outs to give space (180,000 / 200,000). Three-dimensional solutions by Agostino Bonalumi, modeled by relining, are available as "Rosso" (50,000 / 60,000) and in the form of "Nero n ° 18" (90,000 / 120,000), while Dadamaino's black "Volume" remains in two dimensions (25,000 / 35,000) .

Gunter Sachs introduced Hartmut Stöcker to Andy Warhol; In 1980 he created a portrait of the then husband of the collector Ingvild Goetz, who also worked in her gallery "Art in Progress". His portrait shows Stöcker in front of a medium blue background, it is estimated at 180,000 to 220,000 euros. A considerable selection of sculptural works includes names such as David Smith, Eduardo Chillida, Joannis Avramidis, Stephan Balkenhol or Michail Pirgelis, former student of Rosemarie Trockel, who is represented with one of his bare original airplane parts (15,000 / 20,000).