With a new discovery - a drawing by Egon Schiele - Ketterer's Evening Sale starts on December 10th.
The sheet of a pretty sleeping woman from 1908, which was partially watercolored and inspired by Klimt's “Danae”, was given to his artist colleague Karl Hayd by the young Schiele.
It should bring in 150,000 to 250,000 euros.
Among the top-class offerings on classic modernism is one of the attractive Arab equestrian scenes that Kandinsky captured in Tunisia in 1905 in tempera on dark cardboard (estimate 150,000 / 180,000 euros).
Later, a Jawlensky offer with three works warmed up before his “woman's head with flowers in her hair” came on the desk as the top lot of the day: this, too, was a rediscovery. After a hundred years in the possession of a family who acquired it through Galka Scheyer, the portrait of a woman of the southern type, which was painted in bold colors around 1913, reappears and now, with the authenticity confirmation from the Jawlensky archive, aims at 2.5 to 3, 5 million euros.
Emil Nolde painted another large caliber in 1909 with the colorful "box tree garden", which Ernst Gosebruch owned privately, who was a very progressive museum director in Essen until 1933. The picture was only returned to the heirs of the later owner Ismar Littmann this year (1.2 / 1.8 million euros). Ernst Ludwig Kirchner cleverly dated a brothel scene sketched in oil with "05" - well before it actually began to be created in 1913 (400,000 / 600,000). Max Beckmann's slumbering little dogs “Majong and Chilly” are available (400,000 / 600,000) and Georg Kolbe's “Javanese dancer” cast from 1920, which he gave to the architect of his Berlin studio house (120,000 / 180,000).
Post-war modernism represents a powerful, market-fresh black screen that Pierre Soulages dated “3 août 1954” (700,000 / 900,000). Sean Scully's "Blue Yellow Figure" from 2004 (600,000 / 800,000) also provides a real force field. After figurative inserts of the portrait of a “Tara” by Alex Katz (350,000 / 450,000) and Francis Picabia's perhaps Marlene Dietrich portraying “La Résistance” from around 1943 (250,000 / 350,000), abstractions in the form of the five spray-colored watercolors “Colmar (I –V) ”by Gerhard Richter (500,000 / 700,000). In his transition phase to “metamorphic abstraction”, Albert Oehlen's triptych was created in 1988 with a portrait of a woman in the middle (1.5 / 2.5 million).
The 19th century auction on December 11th is top of the list for Max Liebermann's oil painting “Village Houses with Sunflowers” from 1890 (70,000), “Court Musicians in Greifswald”, drawn by Caspar David Friedrich in 1801 (20,000 / 30,000) and for Philipp Otto Runge's 1800 paper cut made as a New Year's greeting (50,000).