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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…

10.03.2024 Details

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…

06.02.2024 Details

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…

16.01.2024 Details

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…

14.12.2023 Details

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…

06.12.2023 Details

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,…

06.12.2023 Details

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…

26.11.2023 Details

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…

23.11.2023 Details

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.…

23.11.2023 Details

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…

19.11.2023 Details

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…

06.11.2023 Details

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.

01.11.2023 Details

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…

29.10.2023 Details

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…

25.10.2023 Details

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…

22.10.2023 Details

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…

24.08.2023 Details

Exhibition of a new series of paintings at Lempertz Brussels in collaboration with MAI 36 GALERIE Curated by Duviel Fernandez & Hélène Robbe

19.07.2023 Details

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…

25.06.2023 Details

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…

13.06.2023 Details

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…

12.06.2023 Details

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…

12.06.2023 Details

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…

30.05.2023 Details

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…

25.05.2023 Details

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…

22.05.2023 Details

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…

22.05.2023 Details

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, €…

22.05.2023 Details

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…

11.05.2023 Details

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,…

11.05.2023 Details

The extensive ‘Jewellery and Watches’ catalogue presents a diverse offer of jewels, high value brand watches and tabatière.

11.05.2023 Details

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…

07.05.2023 Details

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,…

02.05.2023 Details

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…

18.04.2023 Details

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…

17.03.2023 Details

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…

06.02.2023 Details

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…

30.01.2023 Details

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…

08.12.2022 Details

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,…

07.12.2022 Details

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…

06.12.2022 Details

The three town hall carpets consigned by the City of Cologne far exceeded their estimates. The largest, measuring 1400 x 625 cm and which lay in the Hansa Room, was once trod by Queen Elizabeth and…

29.11.2022 Details

The highlight of the auction with € 780,000 was Adriaen van Overbeke’s triptych, Ecce Homo. Further top lots were paintings by Abraham Mignon (€ 454,000), Salvator Rosa (€ 139,000), Jan Brueghel the…

23.11.2022 Details

The highlight of the auction is the outstanding life-size marble group ‘Samson with a Philistine’ by Pietro Bernini and his son Gian Lorenzo Bernini, dated to the first quarter of the 17th century.…

07.11.2022 Details

At the pinnacle of the offer with an estimate of € 500/600,000 is an important painting by Jan Lievens. He is followed by one of the few works by Abraham Mignon which has only recently been…

07.11.2022 Details

With "Hallali - Hunting in Art", the Brussels branch of Lempertz offers an exceptional and unique museum exhibition of hunting-related art objects from private collections. Hunting art…

28.09.2022 Details

Indian art shone with an excellent hammer quota and a total result four times over the estimate. Noteworthy results were also achieved by South-East Asian and Japanese art. In total, the auction…

26.06.2022 Details

Crowning the regular Photography Auction stood three portraits of significant personalities from the field of music by Anton Corbijn, including his famous portrait of ‘U2’ featuring the singer Bono…

06.06.2022 Details

The quality-rich offer was headed up by works of the modern classics from France and Germany. Karl Hartung reached an international record price of € 605,000, Lovis Corinth rose to € 517,000, and…

06.06.2022 Details

The three auctions of Modern Art, Contemporary Art and Photography brought in one of their best results of recent years with a total of € 11.5 million euros – and thus clearly surpassed last…

06.06.2022 Details

The auction is strongly characterised by impressive objects from private collections. At the tip of the offer is the important collection of Dr Ludwig Jansen. As a collector, Jansen was primarily…

01.06.2022 Details

The total result of the three auctions of Old Masters, Decorative Arts and Jewellery from last weekend brought a very pleasing € 8.6 million euro. Decorative Arts was a success once again, and the…

31.05.2022 Details

The high points of the furniture with an investment of € 119,000 from a German bidder was a small cylinder bureau by David Roentgen (lot 1809, € 79/80,000) and a writing desk from Dresden or Warsaw,…

31.05.2022 Details

The top lot of the Photography Auction on 1 June is Willi Ruge’s 1931 spectacular ‘Photo of Myself at the Moment of my Jump’ showing the photographer parachuting over the outskirts of Berlin (lot…

25.05.2022 Details

At the pinnacle of the auction are two important works by Georg Baselitz (€ 450/650,000) and Günther Förg (€ 500/600,000). These are followed by 13 noteworthy six-figure works, often from the…

25.05.2022 Details

The eminent total of 15 six-figure works is led by French and German classics, with some of the artists represented by two or more works. Emil Nolde is present with four works (up to € 300/350,000),…

25.05.2022 Details

Sparkling amongst the particularly interesting offer of historical furniture is a writing desk with polychrome painted decoration attributed to the Dresden lacquer artist Martin Schnell (lot 1764, €…

12.05.2022 Details

The highlight of the auction - the wonderful and highly important painting by Bartholomé Esteban Murillo (see press release from last week) - is accompanied by an abundance of six-figure paintings:…

12.05.2022 Details

In addition to the Prussian Auction, held very successfully by Lempertz Berlin for a number of years, this season saw the introduction of a new format: Berlin Salon. This auction focused on the…

09.05.2022 Details

Lempertz to offer a masterpiece by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo: The Madonna of the Rosary from the Carmen Calzado Monastery in Seville, at its Fine Art auction in Cologne.

05.05.2022 Details

Alongside the successful Prussian Auction, Lempertz Berlin presents a new format, Berlin Salon, in which high value design objects, the incunabula of modern furniture construction are offered. The…

26.04.2022 Details

The highlights of the Evening Sale of Modern Art were an important early work by August Macke (€ 442,000) and a characteristic painting by Max Ernst from 1954 with a sale of € 325,000. Der SIngende…

10.12.2021 Details

Highlights of the auction include works by Andy Warhol (€ 286,000), Gotthard Graubner (€ 338,000), Gerhard Richter (€ 169,000 and € 143,000), A.R. Penck (€ 286,000), Anselm Kiefer (€ 156,000) and…

10.12.2021 Details

For the first time, Kunsthaus Lempertz will hold an online auction of Asian art alongside its main auction. And so, around 400 lots of art from India, South East Asia, Tibet, China and Japan will be…

30.11.2021 Details

A photograph of historical rarity marks the opening of the auction: The untitled portrait of a lady from between 1845 and 1849 is the first daguerreotype by Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann – the earliest…

26.11.2021 Details

This season, Lempertz published a special catalogue of porcelain and ceramics due to several important private collections – in particular the Hiemisch Collection and the porcelains from Renate and…

25.11.2021 Details

The highlights included paintings by Anton Möller (€ 212,000), Rubens (€ 213,000), Caesar Boetius van Everdingen (€ 146,000) and Jan Baegert (Master of Cappenberg) with € 200,000. The 19th century…

25.11.2021 Details

The star lots of the auction include works by Andy Warhol (€ 300/400,000 and € 140/180,000), Gotthard Graubner (€ 250/300,000), Gerhard Richter (€ 130/150,000), A.R. Penck (€ 130/150,000), Günter…

17.11.2021 Details

The high point of the Evening Sale of Modern Art is an atmospheric late work by Camille Pissarro from 1899 (€ 500/700,000). This is followed by an important early work by August Macke (€ 300/400,00),…

17.11.2021 Details

The highlights in this season’s Old Masters auction include paintings by Andrea Solario (€ 200/250,000), Cornelis de Heem (€ 200/240,000), Anton Möller (€ 180/200,000), Rubens (€ 180/240,000) and…

09.11.2021 Details

With several important private collections this season, Lempertz has released a special catalogue of porcelain and ceramics, highlighting in particular the Hiemisch collection as well as the…

09.11.2021 Details

Lempertz auction of the Art of Africa, The Pacific and the Americas on 2 September opens with the third and final group of Dan and We masks from the Ivory Coast from the collection of the Swiss…

15.08.2021 Details

L'Orfèvrerie, the art of gold and silversmithing, was the lifelong passion of the collector Bernard De Leye, and a field in which he is considered a leading connoisseur, collector, and art…

16.07.2021 Details

With almost 900 objects, the traditional two-day Asian Art auction on 24th and 25th June traversed the centuries. Particular high points were seen for Chinese monochrome porcelains and Japanese…

29.06.2021 Details

The highest result with € 620,000 was achieved by a painting by Max Ernst from the year 1953. This was followed by a whole row of six-figure sales: € 275,000 for a double-sided painting by Ernst…

24.06.2021 Details

The very successful auctions of Contemporary and Modern Art fetched a total of € 13.55 million with a high hammer rate by value, and with it one of the best results of recent years from Lempertz in…

23.06.2021 Details

With almost 900 objects, the two-day Asian Auction on 24th/25th June spans a broad arc between continents and centuries. Special highlights include Chinese monochrome porcelains and Japanese swords.

16.06.2021 Details

The Jewellery auction, one of the best of the last few years, performed brilliantly and achieved a result by value of well over 100% of the total estimate.

08.06.2021 Details

The auction of Old Master and 19th century paintings and sculptures comprised almost 260 lots, with the sculptures presented in an individual catalogue. The focus was on Italian art of the…

06.06.2021 Details

At € 400/600,000, the field is led by a sponge sculpture by Yves Klein. He is followed by canvases from Marlene Dumas (€400/500,000) and Sean Scully (€ 280/320,000), whilst paintings from Yoshitomo…

04.06.2021 Details

At the pinnacle of the offer is a painting by Max Ernst from the year 1953 (€ 500/700,000). French Modernism is strongly represented: we have a canvas from Pierre Bonnard painted in 1907 (€…

04.06.2021 Details

One thematic focus with several top lots is a group of photographs from the context of the Bauhaus and its successors, consigned from a Swiss private collection.

04.06.2021 Details

The Old Master and 19th century paintings and sculptures comprises almost 260 lots, with the sculptures presented in a separate catalogue. The focus lies on art of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque…

18.05.2021 Details

The respected art historian Dr. Anke Held joins Lempertz from Christie’s where she was the International Senior Specialist for Old Masters. Based in Brussels, she fortifies Lempertz’ successful team…

18.05.2021 Details

The auction with high-quality works of art comprises 590 lots – and together with 153 mortars, a total of 743 lots. One of the highlights in the section “Kunstkammer, Furniture and Textiles” – and…

16.05.2021 Details

Lempertz Berlin held its Prussian Auction on 24 April for the fourth time in succession under this title. With a result of 1.1 million euro, the auction was a significant success with almost all lots…

26.04.2021 Details

L’ Orfèvrerie, the art of the goldsmiths and silversmiths, has been the passion of Bernard De Leye throughout his life; a field for which he is considered a leading connoisseur, collector and art…

13.04.2021 Details

Lempertz Berlin will hold its Preußen (Prussian) Auction on 24 April for the fourth time in a row under this title. And once again, Alice Jay von Seldeneck and the team have put together a fantastic…

01.04.2021 Details

Lempertz is pleased to announce that the self-portrait ZERO (2018) by Georg Baselitz has been sold for 22,000 euro, considerably higher than the starting price of € 8,000. Georg Baselitz drew the…

03.02.2021 Details

With a total of 56.2 million euro, this 175th jubilee was not only a record year for Lempertz, despite the pandemic. There were, in addition, two "white glove sales", the collections…

20.01.2021 Details

With a very pleasing total result of 2.5 million euro, Lempertz’ two-day auction was a great success –the art from China in particular produced several surprise results. The number of Japanese…

21.12.2020 Details

A particular highlight of the Photography offer this autumn was the sale of a collection of 80 early views of Rome from the 19th century, from the collection of Orsola and Filippo Maggia.

15.12.2020 Details

On 13th November, Lempertz once again successfully auctioned a highly important private collection of outstanding Meissen porcelain and impressive glassware from the 17th and 18th centuries. The…

14.12.2020 Details

The success of an important early commesso dish with a view of Florence was quite brilliant. Attributed to the Florentine stone carver Cosimo Castrucci who was appointed to the Prague court in 1592,…

14.12.2020 Details

The auctions last weekend – Old Masters and 19th Century, Jewellery, Decorative Arts with the very important collections of Roentgen furniture and from Renate and Tono Dreßen featuring Meissen…

14.12.2020 Details

The Modern and Contemporary Art auctions were very successful with a high total sales quota of 9.5 million euro. For Modern Art, a very impressive painting by Otto Ritschl performed a great jump…

13.12.2020 Details

At the top of the offer stands Donald Judd with a sculptural work for € 500,000 and a canvas by Copley which saw a steep escalation to € 213,000. A bidder had to stretch to € 119,000 for “Mein Kölner…

10.12.2020 Details

The extraordinary high point of the auction season this autumn, not only for Lempertz in its 175th year but also in Germany, was the sale of 22 important treasures of Old Master art (including two…

10.12.2020 Details

Lempertz will once again offer the two-day Asian Art auction in two catalogues with notable consignments and private collections from all over Europe.

07.12.2020 Details

Highlights of the two-day auction include paintings by Alexej von Jawlensky (€ 120/150,000) and Emil Nolde with a dramatic “Tosendes Meer” watercolour for € 100/130,000 as well as one of his…

03.12.2020 Details

At the pinnacle of the impressive offer with numerous six-figure works is a sculptural work by Donald Judd for € 400/500,000 and a nine-part canvas work from Marcel Broodthaers (€ 350/400,000). A…

03.12.2020 Details

A particular highlight of this auction are the three beautifully made Japanese lacquer photo albums from a Rhenish private collection. The albums feature exceptionally fine quality hand-tinted…

03.12.2020 Details

In the upcoming season, Lempertz will once again be offering a separate catalogue with works from an important private collection. The selection of eighty rare, captivatingly beautiful views of Rome…

03.12.2020 Details