The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

Beckmann painting auctioned for 20 million euros

2022-12-01T19:49:58.890Z


Beckmann painting auctioned for 20 million euros Created: 2022-12-01Updated: 2022-12-01 8:34 PM The painting "Self-Portrait Yellow-Rose" by Max Beckmann is offered at the Villa Grisebach auction house. © Britta Pedersen/dpa Max Beckmann's "Self-Portrait Yellow-Rose" was auctioned in Berlin on Thursday for a record price of 20 million euros. This is the highest result ever for a work of art at a


Beckmann painting auctioned for 20 million euros

Created: 2022-12-01Updated: 2022-12-01 8:34 PM

The painting "Self-Portrait Yellow-Rose" by Max Beckmann is offered at the Villa Grisebach auction house.

© Britta Pedersen/dpa

Max Beckmann's "Self-Portrait Yellow-Rose" was auctioned in Berlin on Thursday for a record price of 20 million euros.

This is the highest result ever for a work of art at an auction in Germany.

The 1943 work by the painter and sculptor had previously been valued at 23 million euros by the Grisebach auction house.

Berlin – The most expensive painting auctioned in Germany to date also came from Beckmann.

In 2018, a price of 4.7 million euros was achieved for “Die Ägypterin”, also in Berlin.

The current auction started at 13 million and after three and a half minutes reached the highest bid for bidder number 469 in seven-digit increments. According to the auction house, the work was bought from a collection in Switzerland.

There was no further information.

23.2 million euros are to be paid with the ancillary costs.

The self-portrait of Beckmann (1884-1950) comes from a Swiss private collection.

The artist painted the work during his exile in Amsterdam, where he had emigrated after the Nazis came to power in Germany.

In the painting itself, however, there are no direct references to the world situation at the time.

Beckmann gave it to his wife Mathilde "Quappi" Kaulbach, who kept it until her death in 1986.

According to the information, the “Self-portrait yellow-pink” was one of the rare self-portraits that was still in private hands.

Most recently, "Self-Portrait with Trumpet" was auctioned on the international market in 2001 for the equivalent of a good 23 million euros, and four years later "Self-Portrait with Glass Ball" for more than 17 million euros in New York.

dpa

Source: merkur

All news articles on 2022-12-01

You may like

News/Politics 2024-03-24T06:14:48.924Z

Trends 24h

News/Politics 2024-03-28T06:04:53.137Z

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.