JUNE AUCTION COMING SOON

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Art and commerce

The constant commercialization of all areas of life is one of Banksy's heartfelt themes. This is also the subject of the screen print "Banksquat (Grey)".

The work pays homage to the New York post-graffiti pioneer Jean-Michel Basquiat. It shows a small family in front of a Ferris wheel. Its cabins are replaced by Basquiat's typical crown symbols. The connection is quickly made: After Basquiat's death, many companies used his art to market and sell their own products. Banksy questions this, in his view, unrestrained commercialization.

Eastern European Blues

Eastern European artists always provide surprises at NEUMEISTER auctions. Václav Spála's flower still life from 1929 is also tailor-made for exciting bidding battles. The painting by the Czech painter and illustrator shows a still life with flowers in a simple folk jug, which is quite typical for the artist. The work is dominated by brilliant blue tones - the "Spála blue", the artist's trademark since 1927.

Human image 

The German painter and sculptor Horst Antes caused a sensation in the early 1960s with his motif of the rumpless cephalopod - after all, he was one of the first artists in post-war Germany to leave abstraction behind and allow the human being to reappear in the picture. His works have attracted worldwide attention and are represented in some of Germany's largest collections, including those in Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne. Horst Antes participated three times in the documenta in Kassel and won prizes at the Biennales of Venice in 1966 and Sao Paulo in 1992.

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Island Happiness

From the estate of the entrepreneur and psychoanalyst Dr. Lotte Köhler

several paintings by Max Peiffer Watenphul are offered for sale, which show, among other things, places and landscapes on Ischia. The artist loved the then little-known island near Naples, where numerous German painters worked, including Werner Gilles, Rudolf Levy, Hans Purrmann and Eduard Bargheer. In the 1950s Peiffer Watenphul visited 

Ischia again and again. The stays on the island were particularly happy for him - a state of mind that is also reflected in the wonderful oil paintings from the estate of Lotte Köhler.

Works of the documenta stars 

The documenta is considered the world's most important series of contemporary art exhibitions. Under the label of "Young Collectors," the June auction will feature several works by artists who were featured at the show, which has repeatedly shaken the art world. Works by Mike Kelley, Joseph Beuys, Martin Kippenberger and Mo Edoga, among others, will be called for at moderate estimated prices. For newcomers, this is an ideal opportunity to lay the foundation for a collection of contemporary art with a manageable investment.

Old German wave

For anyone who thinks in drawers, it must have been a real delight to file files in this noble piece of furniture. At first glance, the cabinet seems inconspicuous, because its true character is hidden behind four powerful doors, which form a front with charming geometric wave decor. You also have to look for the (deliberately hidden) keyhole first. But if you then turn the large key, 33 drawers appear, numbered consecutively in graceful maple marquetry. Remarkable is the authentic state of preservation with original fittings. Gable form and the characteristic arched wave profiles speak for a manufacturing by a Leipzig carpenter.

WELLENSCHRANK 
Leipzig, dat. 1707

AUKTION 409 // 
SCHÄTZPREIS € 14.000 – 16.000

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New trends in the bedroom

You like it streamlined in the bedroom? The toilet table and the two cabinets made of highly polished aluminum, which probably belonged to a bedroom interior, are an absolute rarity! The spacey and exclusive objects were manufactured around 1939/40 by Hawker Airkraft Ltd in Great Britain and quickly became favorites of the trendy avant-garde.

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Will raise dust

For friends of oriental subjects, Otto Pilny is at the top of the wish list - also because it is noticeable in the works that the man knew what he was painting. In 1885, Pilny embarked on his first trip to Egypt, spending the next two years (accompanied only by his dog) on the caravan route between Cairo and Tripoli - the landscapes there, together with their moods (of light), would shape his work for the rest of his life.

Otto Pilny's painting "Sunrise in the Desert" will certainly raise a lot of dust among art lovers in the auction. The atmospheric depiction shows a group of Bedouins setting out on an arduous journey through the desert. Three riders, two on horseback and one on a camel, are accompanied by six men and a child who are on foot. Behind the mountains on the horizon rises the sun, whose glistening yellow dominates the entire background, while around the travelers in the foreground the gentle desert wind stirs up the sand.

"Bottle nosed"

Lovis Corinth led a dissolute life; he was not averse to alcohol. His lifestyle habits took their toll, and the artist repeatedly addressed his own decline in harrowing self-portraits. Now up for bid is "The Old Drinker," an early work by the then 31-year-old artist. A truly high-percentage work.

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