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Specialist auctions often reward perseverance more than passion, requiring collectors to search for genuine discoveries. Lempertz’s upcoming auction, “Art of Africa, the Pacific and the Americas,” to…
Indian art continues its upward trajectory at Lempertz, with many works on paper seeing significant increases in value. Works from Tibet and Nepal are also in high demand, as are Japanese netsuke,…
At Lempertz's autumn auction of modern and contemporary art, Fritz Klimsch's “Spring” proved particularly popular. Stars such as Andy Warhol, Norbert Bisky, and Isa Genzken were just three…
With the auction ‘50 Lots – My Choice’, Lempertz celebrates an anniversary that is rarely achieved in the art world: Henrik Hanstein has been managing the company and the auctions at Lempertz for 50…
The magnificent terracotta figures in the Asian art auction at Lempertz provide a vivid impression of the Silk Road in the early Middle Ages, whilst sculptures transport the viewer to Japan's…
Exquisite silverware and rare objects from the Gothic and Renaissance periods thrilled bidders at Lempertz. The auctions ‘Silver, Objets de Vertu and Furniture’ and ‘Ceramics & Porcelain from…
Lempertz invites you to its auction on 5th December, with an outstanding collection of masterpieces of modern sculpture and prominent names from classical modernism and contemporary art.
Lempertz has made a successful start to the autumn season with its ‘Jewellery & Watches’ auction. Characterised by thrilling bidding competitions, the auction confirmed the high demand for…
Henrik Hanstein took over the management of Lempertz auction house, which is now in its fifth generation of family ownership, 50 years ago. To mark this anniversary, the curated special auction ‘50…
It takes the skill and creativity of master jewellers to transform unique stones into the kind of jewellery on offer at Lempertz's Jewellery & Watches auction on 20th November.
Stolen by Hermann Göring, finally returned after 85 years: On 4th December, Lempertz will auction the painting ‘The Resurrection of Christ’ by Florentine Renaissance painter Francesco di Lorenzo…
Masters from the Netherlands are represented in Lempertz's autumn season of Old Masters, as are Italian artists – and a female master also created one of the highlights coming up for auction in…
A large tapestry invites the viewer to take a stroll through a landscape filled with surprising wildlife. Together with fantastic masterpieces from important collections, it will be auctioned in…
The Mundus Quartet is performing its programme ‘Dialog der Zeiten’ (Dialogue of the Ages) at an unusual venue: On 12th November, it will transform the Lempertz auction house into a concert hall.
Aristide Maillol defined his style as a sculptor shortly after 1900. On 4 and 5 December 2025, Lempertz will auction an important collection of 13 bronze casts from this period.
lt symbolises peace and tranquillity, but this autumn, the 11.51 ct Kashmir Sapphire will cause quite a stir in the saleroom at Lempertz on Neumarkt in Cologne. Kashmir Sapphires captivate with their…
Photography Exhibition at the Japanese Cultural Institute with works from the Roland Angst Collection / Only Photography The works on display are from the Roland Angst Collection and will be…
Lempertz is auctioning selected works from one of the world's most important collections: in autumn, outstanding photographs from the collection of Martin Z. Margulies will be offered at a…
A strong offering with sales in the millions for Modern Art and Old Masters, as well as exceptional museum-quality works in the decorative arts, brought Lempertz a total result of 27.3 million euros…
Bidders were captivated by Wilhelm Brücke's painting “Unter den Linden” boulevard and works by the Impressionists Walter Leistikow and Philipp Franck, as well as a self-portrait by Adolph von…
This season's successful Asian Art auction at Lempertz was characterised by several important collections, which were sold almost in their entirety. Demand for art from India also proved to be…
The capital plays the leading role in this spring’s Berlin auction, with the highlight being a painting of the boulevard Unter den Linden by Wilhelm Brücke that was once owned by the mayor and later…
Works by Oskar Schlemmer and Marc Chagall led the sales at the Lempertz auction in Cologne on 30th May. Among the contemporaries, Zdeněk Sýkora and Sigmar Polke were particularly sought after.
Exciting collections as well as outstanding porcelain and exquisite furniture from the Qing period characterise the selection of Asian art up for auction at Lempertz this season.
In the Evening Sale, Lempertz will be auctioning selected objects from the estate of Bauhaus master Oskar Schlemmer. The auction also includes important works of Impressionist and Expressionist art…
At the beginning of the year, following successful provenance research, the gouache ‘Blick in Ebene’ by Paul Adolf Seehaus was restituted to the heirs of Jewish collector Marie Louise Stadler, having…
Classic photography and contemporary classics characterise the offerings at Lempertz in this busy spring season with names such as T. Lux Feininger, Thomas Struth, Helmut Newton and Anton Corbijn.
Lempertz confirmed its outstanding position in the field of Old Master paintings with the first spring auctions of this year. The most spectacular hammer prices were achieved by a floral still life…
The Renaissance silver nef from the Regensburg silver find exceeded expectations: The sensational piece realised around € 330,000 at the Lempertz auction. Modern silver was highly successful. 18th…
Lempertz enjoyed a highly successful Old Masters auction on 17th May, especially the sale of the flower still life by Jan Davidsz. de Heem. This masterpiece by the important Dutch painter, which only…
Applied arts bring history to life, as the outstanding objects in the Lempertz decorative arts auction impressively demonstrate: from the key role played by maritime navigation to developments in…
From the fair in Schellebelle by Jacob Savery the Elder through the depths of hell with the Visions of Tondalus by a successor to Hieronymus Bosch, and then back again to a world worth living in, the…
The sale opens with a fine collection of French and Hanau gold boxes from the late 18th and early 19th centuries from German-Italian collectors, complemented by two important gold and enamel snuff…
Two of the most important Dutch still life painters are expanding their catalogue raisonnés at the Lempertz Fine Art auction on 17th May: Fred G. Meijer was able to add a magnificent flower still…
On 26 February 1869, craftsmen demolishing a patrician house in Regensburg made a spectacular discovery: a wooden chest containing precious Renaissance silver artefacts was uncovered under a…
The first auction of the year at Lempertz in Brussels brought in exceptional results. Many of the highlights of traditional African and Oceanic art realised hammer prices that multiplied their…
The sale of African and Oceanic Art will open the auction year at Lempertz in Brussels. This catalogue features a carefully curated selection of outstanding objects. Special pieces include a Nkisi…
Tibetan works of art elicited the most intense bidding wars in Lempertz's last auction of the year. The packed saleroom in Cologne received numerous bids via telephone and online from all over…
Claude Monet only depicted winter once in his series of views of the Normandy cliffs. This important Impressionist work was auctioned at Lempertz for € 3.5 million. A world record was set for a…
The addition of a vajra is what makes a Buddha in meditation a Buddha Vajrasana. An outstanding example of this special type of figure, characterised by the three-pronged Vajra sceptre, is one of the…
The three photography auctions at Lempertz this autumn generated high hammer prices for works by William Eggleston, Candida Höfer, Bernd and Hilla Becher and other great names in the history of…
Furniture by David Roentgen from the L. Collection, silver by Emil Lettré from the Katzenellenbogen Collection: the extensive offerings of the Decorative Arts auctions at Lempertz were rich in…
The saleroom was gripped by diamond fever as several unusual items of jewellery from a North German private collection came under the hammer. The star lot turned out to be the piece illustrated on…
Belle Epoque and Art Nouveau - historical jewelry from various private collections will be on offer at the Jewellery and Watches auction in Cologne on 14 November. An Art Deco brooch with a fancy…
With her gallery Clairefontaine, Marita Ruiter was a leading figure in the field of contemporary art, and especially photography, in Luxembourg. After retiring from business, Marita Ruiter entrusted…
The Lempertz auctions in November are characterised by some of the biggest names from the most diverse genres in art. Claude Monet has caused a sensation with a painting the likes of which has rarely…
Capricci by Michele Marieschi, Corrado Giacinto and Alessandro Rosi shine a light on Italy, as does the Düsseldorf painter Oswald Achenbach. Salomon van Ruysdael, Willem van de Velde the Younger,…
There was an unusual episode of the TV show ‘Bei Bio’ on 12th April 1984 in which Nam June Paik's video installation ‘Tree of Temptation’ was created live during Alfred Biolek's show. This…
Architecture painting by Leo von Klenze, Friedrich Nerly or Domenico Quaglio and genre scenes by Carl Spitzweg – the private collection of around 100 paintings from the 19th century is rich in great…
A pair of imperial jade seals were the star of this year’s Spring auction season. Numerous bidders in a well-attended room as well as on the telephones and online also multiplied the expectations for…
In the Photography auction, bidders were thrilled by the wide range on offer, from one of the first colour photographs in history to contemporary works. Lempertz thus confirmed its position as market…
The large ‘Liegender Akt’ by Heinrich Campendonk achieved one million euro on its market debut, whilst contemporary art broke the auction record for works by Cosima von Bonin. The large ‘Liegender…
The Asian Art auction at Lempertz offers outstanding objects from China and Tibet as well as works from remarkable private collections of Japanese and Indian art. China's culture reached a peak…
At the auction on 16th May, bidders in the room, on the phones and online repeatedly demanded great stamina from each other. The fish market from the workshop of Frans Snyders was called with an…
The MT49 / ME8 tea infuser by Marianne Brandt was one of the most important and rarest Bauhaus design objects up for auction, and it was therefore no surprise that it caused quite a stir in the…
The Evening Sale at Lempertz excites with artworks from museums, private collections and from the estates of the artists themselves. Museum Wiesbaden is currently showing to great resonance the…
Exciting competition between international bidders and high hammer prices in the auction of Jewellery and Wristwatches proved a very successful start to the season at Lempertz’s Cologne headquarters
The Photography Auction at Lempertz offers an outstanding lot in terms of both art and technical history: The self portrait of Dr Richard Neuhaus from 1901 is a colour photograph using the Lippman…
Lempertz once again successfully reached an agreement in a restitution case. In the upcoming auction Decorative Arts – Furniture, lot 858 will feature a salon suite that once belonged to the Berlin…
Jan Lievens and Rembrandt had a close friendship, but also one of the most spectacular duels in art history. And one of them is seen looking at himself in the Lempertz auction. Further highlights…
The Berlin Auction at Lempertz triggered applause in the room with top hammer prices and exceptional results for paintings, porcelain and silver. With a total of 1.15 million euro, the result was…
Lempertz traditionally opens its German auction season in Berlin. The stories told by this special city resonate in the works of art from across the centuries and genres. Barbara Rosina Lisiewska-de…
Lempertz is proud to present an icon of Bauhaus design from the year 1924 in the form of the tea infuser MT 49 / ME8 by Marianne Brandt. Until now, eight examples were known in the world’s most…
The Art of Afrika, the Pacific and the Americas opened the fresh auction year at Lempertz with great hammer prices and a high sales quota. Held in our Brussels office, the exceptional Korwar from the…
Around ten years ago, a discovery of Pacific art caused a sensation: Numerous and exceptionally well documented Korwar were found in the estate of a Dutch teacher. He had acquired the precious pieces…
In auction 1235 Asian Art at Lempertz, objects from Tibet and Japan were particularly sought after. The highest hammer price of the auction went to an imposing thanghka of the Buddha Amitabha. The…
A key work of German Expressionism by Hermann Max Pechstein, ‘Self Portrait, Reclining’, achieved a result of 3,182,840 euro in the Evening Sale on Friday in Cologne. All the bidders were from…
Hermann Max Pechstein’s ‘Selbstbildnis, liegend‘ topped the list of all the high hammer prices achieved in the Evening Sale on Friday and the Day Sale on Saturday. With a result of 3.2 million euro,…
Attic or barn finds have at times brought sensations to light and written auction history, but it can also be worth taking a closer look at what scrap metal dealers have to offer – if you have a…
The auction ‘Old Masters and 19th Century’ was the catalyst for a world record. With a result of 419,000 euro, ‘A Critic’ (lot 2173) by Wilhelm Leibl achieved the highest price ever reached for this…
Almost all of the selected pieces of ‘Four Centuries of Reverse Glass Painting’ from the collection of Gisela and Professor Wolfgang Steiner sold, with the expectation of 156,000 far exceeded.…
In the Evening Sale of this year’s autumn season at Lempertz, Max Liebermann leads us into his garden at Wannsee while Paula Modersohn-Becker takes us to Worpswede. August Macke introduces us to…
The high art of bijouterie, fine watches and tabatières is defined by the concentration of great richness in a small form. A snuff box once owned by Duke Christian Ludwig II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin…
Some pictures can be decisive for an artist’s entire life. In the autumn auctions of Old Masters and 19th century art, Lempertz calls up several such examples.
On 17th November, Lempertz will auction outstanding items with desired provenances from across the centuries. The morning is dedicated to silver, porcelain and faience, and the afternoon is devoted…
The prominent collector couple, who wish to remain anonymous, acquired a collection of 130 lots of modern glass over a period of almost five decades. The earliest objects are by the highly talented…
On 16th November, Lempertz will auction star works from the Steiner Collection with an accompanying special catalogue. With this collection of European reverse glass painting, compiled over decades…
Lost, found, gifted: Kunsthaus Lempertz was able to identify a stolen work by Adolph Menzel from Berlin’s National Gallery, and on the occasion of Lempertz’ jubilee, provides the painting’s odyssey…
Exhibition of a new series of paintings at Lempertz Brussels in collaboration with MAI 36 GALERIE Curated by Duviel Fernandez & Hélène Robbe
A hanging scroll of the highest quality in the extremely successful Asian Art auction at Lempertz in Cologne showed how much top pieces enliven this collecting field. Overall, the total hammer price…
The key work of Expressionism should have been offered for auction in the Evening Sale at Kunsthaus Lempertz in Cologne on 6th June. The painting was formerly in the collection of the Jewish Doctor…
Lempertz, is pleased to present the exhibition "Polynesian Art", from May 25th to June 30th, 2023. It will showcase a range of important artworks and objects from Polynesia, a region that…
A captivating work by Albert Birkle from 1925 was the star of the exceptionally successful Evening Sale on 6 June 2023 at Kunsthaus Lempertz. With Old-Masterly precision, the 63.5cm x 57.5 cm canvas…
Auction 1226 - Highlights in lacquer and jade and a collection under the patronage of the Dalai Lama
The upcoming Asian Art auction comprises a diverse offer of lacquer objects. Whether gleaming as a frame for Thai sculptures, richly carved in bold red as a lidded box, or as a delicately applied…
Numerous top pieces sparked the aspiration of the bidders in the auctions of Old Master and 19th century art, furniture and decorative arts, as well as silver, porcelain and faience, which were held…
Das diesjährige Saisonhighlight im Bereich der Photographie ist ein kleines Photobuch aus dem Jahr 1934, das im Evening Sale zum Aufruf kommt: „Die Puppe. Erinnerungen zum Thema Puppe“ von Hans…
The outstanding work in this high-class auction is Hermann Max Pechstein’s ‘Self-portrait, reclining’ (lot 43) with an expectation of 1.5 to 2 million euro. It was painted in 1909 during Pechstein’s…
Unter den Spitzenlosen dieser hochwertigen Offerte Zeitgenössischer Kunst fallen zwei Skulpturen besonders auf. Niki de Saint Phalle hat in der Brunnenplastik „Fontaine aux quatre Nanas“ (Lot 35, €…
Saint Magdalena by Guido Reni attracts particular attention amongst the highlights of this auction. It is the most important work of the Bolognese master to be offered on the market for years (lot…
This season, the comprehensive and high-value offer is spread across two auction dates: On 17th May we see furniture, decorative arts, jewellery and watches offered for sale, and the silver,…
The extensive ‘Jewellery and Watches’ catalogue presents a diverse offer of jewels, high value brand watches and tabatière.
The Lempertz auction of African and Oceanic art on 5 May features highlights from the Congo, Cameroon, Central Africa, or Equatorial Guinea. A rare Congo zoomorphic power figure was collected by the…
This May and June, Lempertz will auction an outstanding collection of German Expressionists and Romantics. The Rhenish private collection, which had remained in family ownership for almost 90 years,…
The Prussian Sale on 22 April at Lempertz in Berlin comprises 280 lots. Historical porcelain from the era of Emperor Friedrich II to the imperial period have been consigned from two German private…
In the first ‘online only sale’ from Lempertz’ Decorative Arts Department, a Belgian private collection of 101 ivory sculptures made by important Art Déco artists from the first quarter of the 20th…
This Lempertz auction on 1 February 2023 comprised 217 lots, primarily from Africa and the Pacific and was one of the best Lempertz auctions specialising in art from Africa and Oceania. The 159 lots…
The Lempertz auction on 1 February 2023 comprises 217 lots, most from Africa and the Pacific. The sale will include 159 lots from the Seymour and Alyce Lazar Collection. Seymour Lazar of Palm Springs…
At the pinnacle of the Evening Sale of Contemporary Art with € 365,000 was a special work by Josef Albers of sand-strewn glass. A colour-space body by Gotthard Graubner reached € 176,000, and…
At the top was Albert Giacometti with two important bronze sculptures for € 2,676,000. A painting by Alexej von Jawlensky reached € 454,000, an early picture by Gabriele Münter sold for € 113,500,…
Alongside individual, truly high-carat consignments of Indian stone sculptures (and with a noticeable increased demand following the successful sale of the Jansen Collection in June), Lempertz also…