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In the autumn auction for Modern and Contemporary Pho-tography on November 30th total sales reached EUR 522,500* (sales rate of 90%). The highest awarded bid went to Albert-Renger-Patzsch’s icon “Das Bäumchen”. In this small print size, it attained the highest auction price on re-cord internationally. After a long lasting bidding war, an American collector was able to win the bid at EUR 70,000* (estimate of EUR 20,000–30,000). There was also intense competition for three vintage gelatin prints of designs by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Photo: Curt Rehbein), which eventually were all purchased by a private collector from Germany. The image of the model “Gläserner Wolken-kratzer” fetched a price of EUR 35,000* (estimate of EUR 15,000–25,000). The gelatin print of a photomontage, a project on the Berliner Friedrichstrasse, reached EUR 31,875*, and the photograph of a drawing for “Wabe” EUR 50,000* (each had been estimated at EUR 10,000–20,000).
Images surpassing their estimate greatly included amongst others Andreas Feininger’s vintage “N.Y.-3rd ave” with EUR 8,000* (estimate EUR 3,000–4,000) and Evelyn Richter’s “Wartburg” with EUR 4,500* (estimate EUR 1,200–1,500), respectively going to German private collectors. High premiums in the area of contemporary photography were awarded for example for an untitled work by Fran-cesca Woodman, which went to the English market (esti-mate EUR 12,000–15,000) and Greg Gorman’s “Grace Jones in Hat”, purchased by a German collector for EUR 6,500* (estimate of EUR 1,800–2,000).
Franziska SchmidtT +49 30 885915 [email protected]
Berlin, 3 December 2016
*All results inclusive of buyer’s premium
Press Release Photography auction at Grisebach: Long bidding wars for Ludwig Mies von der Rohe and Albert Renger-Patzsch
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Draft of a tower building at Friedrichstraße, Berlin. 1922. Vintage. Sold for 50,000 EUR*
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Draft of a tower building at Friedrichstraße, Berlin. 1922. Vintage. Gelatin silver contact print of a photomontage. 24,2 × 17,9 cm. Sold for 31,875 EUR*
Francesca Woodman. Untitled (Providence,Rhode Island). 1978. Posthumous C-Print, authorized from the estate. 113,5 x 109 cm. Sold for 16,250 EUR*
Greg Gorman. Grace Jones in Hat. 1991. Later gelatin silver print. 50,3 x 40,5 cm. Sold for 6,500 EUR*
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Model. Glass Skyscraper. 1922. Vintage. Gelatin silver contact print. 24,2 x 17,9 cm. Sold for 35,000 EUR*
Albert Renger-Patzsch. Das Bäumchen. 1929. Vintage. Gelatin silver print. 22,8 x 16,9 cm. Sold for 70,000 EUR*
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