Lempertz is delighted to host this exhibition to mark the launch of a new book, Sepik Ramu Art, edited by Kevin Conru with contributions from three eminent scholars, Virginia-Lee Webb, Crispin Howarth and Barry Craig. ...
The 300-lot offering for the upcoming Spring Contemporary Art auction on 1 June 2019 encompasses two catalogues and has an impressive number of sensational highlights and sculptural features. ...
Lempertz offers a noteworthy abundance of highly important classical modernist works, led by two excellent works by Kurt Schwitters (€ 400/600,000 and € 300/350,000) as well as a monumental painting by Max Liebermann for € 600/800,000. ...
At the top of the impressive auction, scattered with numerous six-figure paintings, is a painting from Jan Brueghel the Elder valued at € 230/300,000, alongside works by Claude-Joseph Vernet (€ 150/200,000) and Jean-Honoré Fragonard (€ 150/170...
With around 300 lots, the auction kicks off with a Russian gold snuff box. With the marks of the St. Petersburg jeweller Keibel, the lid is embellished with a very fine Roman micromosaic with a classicist landscape in the style of Jakob Philipp Hacke...