The top lot among Lempertz's offer of paintings by old masters and from the 19th century remained Palma Vecchio's gorgeous "Reclining Venus": the Venetian created the naked beauty in large format around 1500, which later belonged to the Italian Princess Labadini and Jean Paul Gettys. With a hammer price of 600,000 euros (estimate up to 800,000), the oil painting reached its lower estimate and is now in a German private collection. A gold plate with the crucifixion of Giovanni da Bologna, who worked in Venice around 1370/80, is also in German private ownership for 360,000 euros (370,000 / 450,000). The mystical marriage between Saint Catherine and the Boy John, which the master of the Stockholm Pietà painted in the middle of the 16th century, came to 220,000 euros (240,000 / 280,000). A still life of flowerscreated around 1620 by Jan Brueghel the Elder. Ä. and his son Jan Brueghel the Elder J., won at 240,000 euros (180,000 / 220,000). And the bouquet of roses and tulips fresh from the market by Jan Brueghel the Elder. J. was worth 100,000 euros to a Russian collector (70,000 / 90,000).

Jan van Goyen's tender river landscape on wood sparked a bidding war, which a Dutch collector was only able to win for himself with a bid of 155,000 euros (80,000 / 90,000). The biggest surprise of the auction was a 26 by nineteen centimeter, market-fresh face of Christ from a German private collection: the oil painting by an unknown Flemish master of the 16th century sparked a real competition that continued until the result of 90,000 euros; it was estimated at 4,000 to 6,000 euros.

In the 19th century, Fedot Sychkov's colorful "holiday" from 1930 won over with 75,000 euros (70,000 / 80,000). The pair of paintings by Giovanni Grubacs with scenes from the “Festa del Redentore”, the annual celebration in Venice since 1577 to commemorate the past plague epidemic, reached its lower tax of 40,000 euros (up to 60,000); the larger version "Redentore Festival on the Rialto Bridge" (70,000 / 90,000) remained unsold. Barend Cornelis Koekkoek's “Wooded Landscape with Peasants”, measuring thirty by 35 centimeters, tripled its lower estimate at 90,000 euros (30,000 / 35,000) and is now in a north German collection. Together, the almost 260 lots generated sales of 4.5 million euros. The expectations were slightly higher at 4.7 million. When Lempertz held its "Evening Sale" with 109 highlights from modern and present,contemporaries in particular ensured high surcharges: With a result of one million euros, Yves Klein's blue sponge sculpture "SE 328", created around 1959, became a top lot; seven telephone bidders fought over the fifty centimeter high plastic, which was valued at 400,000 to 600,000 euros.

Marlene Dumas' oil painting “The Window” from 1992 slightly exceeded the upper estimate at 520,000 euros (400,000 / 500,000). Sean Scully's abstract work “Aruba” from 1998 was bought by Austrian retailers for 310,000 euros (280,000 / 320,000). Zdenek Sýkora's two by two meter "Lines No. 31" exceeded expectations many times over; with a hammer price of 860,000 euros (180,000 / 220,000), a record for the artist, the painting goes back to his homeland in the Czech Republic. Asger Jorn's picture “Dichter & Denker”, created in 1962, achieved its lower estimate of 100,000 euros (up to 150,000). It was the same with Yoshitomo Nara's girl playing guitar in 1991: the acrylic painting on window glass achieved 180,000 euros (up to 220,000 euros).

In the modern era, Max Ernst's collage with “Meister Rabe und seine Sohn” from 1953, which comes directly from the artist's descendants, became the most expensive lot at 500,000 euros (up to 700,000). Ernst Wilhelm Nays canvas from 1953, painted on both sides, “In Blockfarben” was taken over by Swiss trade for the upper tax of 220,000 euros. Oskar Schlemmer's one-meter-high unique bronze “Bauplastik R”, made in 1919, rose to its upper estimate at 200,000 euros and is now in a German collection. The two landscapes by Franz Radziwill came to 160,000 (130,000 / 150,000) and 120,000 euros (100,000 / 120,000). At 160,000 euros (80,000 / 120,000), Otakar Kubín's 1914 painting “In Thinking” clearly outperformed its estimate. Pierre Bonnard's tartan skirt paintings from 1907 (280,000 / 300.000) and Henri Martin's “Muse à la Lyre” (160,000 / 180,000). “Evening Sale” and the subsequent “Day Sale” brought in 13.55 million euros, 9.7 million were expected.

In mid-July, Bernard de Leye's important collection with 260 handicrafts went under the hammer. Finely chased and gilded silver jug ​​and basin made by Jean-Baptiste-François Chéret in Paris with the expectation of one to 1.2 million euros at the start: The French king gave the washing set to his former mistress Marguerite Catherine Hainault for the wedding; now it is going to a Belgian collection for 900,000 euros. Also in a Belgian collection for 260,000 euros (280,000 / 300,000) is a 41 centimeter high amber altar, which was once in the Einsiedeln monastery in Danzig and was made by Christoph Maucher around 1690. A 32 centimeter high silver drinking vessel in the shape of a deer sold for 210,000 euros (200,000 / 220,000).A museum-quality Art Nouveau cup made of eighteen-carat gold - created by Jules-Paul Brateau in Paris in 1893 and enamelled by Paul Grandhomme - cost 120,000 euros (up to 130,000 euros). An 83 centimeter high silver hourglass with a crowning atlas, which was a wedding present from Pope Sixtus V to the Medici in 1589 (400,000 / 450,000), was withdrawn before the auction. The total turnover is 5.4 million euros compared to an expectation of five to seven million.1589 was to the Medici (400,000 / 450,000), was withdrawn before the auction. The total turnover is 5.4 million euros compared to an expectation of five to seven million.1589 was to the Medici (400,000 / 450,000), was withdrawn before the auction. The total turnover is 5.4 million euros compared to an expectation of five to seven million.