Works bought from the personal holdings of German modern artwork curator Kasper König raised round €6 million ($6.5 million) throughout a sequence of gross sales that came about on the headquarters of Van Ham public sale home in Cologne.
Earlier than his dying on the age of 80 in August of this 12 months, König started organizing the gathering’s sale, selecting which works from his property could be bought off to public bidders alongside Van Ham’s specialists after he donated a portion of them to a German museum.
The Cologne public sale home, who held the occasion over the course of two days final week on October 1 and a pair of, moved ahead with the sale following his dying after reaching an settlement with König’s heirs about how the works could be distributed.
König was a distinguished determine within the German artwork scene throughout his lifetime, having based Skulptur Projekte Münster, a decennial out of doors sculpture exhibition within the North Rhine-Westphalia metropolis and serving because the director of Museum Ludwig between 2000 to 2012. Three many years earlier, in 1968, he co-founded the still-running artwork publishing home Walther König Verlag along with his brother.
The sale, titled “The Kasper König Assortment — His Personal Alternative,” featured round 400 artistic endeavors produced by some main names lively in Europe and America through the midcentury years together with Richard Artschwager, Thomas Bayrle, William Copley, and Sigmar Polke.
Two works by Japanese conceptual artist On Kawara, a detailed confidante of König, bought individually to British and Swiss patrons. Could 7, 1967, the sale’s high lot, went for €1.06 million with charges, setting a report for one among Kawara’s date-centered works, in accordance with an public sale home assertion. A 3rd work by William Copley’s titled Girl Be Good went for €172,000 to a Berlin-based collector. Fifty remaining works from his assortment went to the Ludwig Museum in 2023.
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