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Art auction house Schlosser
In the heart of Bamberg's old town
With the 75th auction in autumn 2017, the art auction house Schlosser celebrated its 20th anniversary.
Based in Nuremberg from the time it was founded in 1997 until the 30th auction, the auction house has been established in June 2005 in the city palace of the Bibra family in the heart of the UNESCO-protected old town of Bamberg and has since enriched the unique and varied art and antiques trade in the Upper Franconian cathedral city .
The Bibra-Palais was built around 1716, most likely according to plans by the important baroque architect Johann Dientzenhofer, and all rooms were given opulent stucco decoration by Johann Jakob Vogel, the famous Bamberg court plasterer. Since the construction of the house was intended to "decorate the city", the builder Karl Freiherr von Bibra was granted a loan from the prince-bishop's court chamber for the construction project on March 28, 1716.
The Kunstauktionshaus Schlosser is one of the most beautiful auction houses in Germany and offers the ideal ambience for the presentation and auction of high-quality works of art to an international clientele. In addition to the hall auctions that take place three to four times a year, the auction house was also able to strengthen its presence on the Internet through online auctions and the possibility of live bidding, thus further expanding its position on the art market of the future.
In addition, we carry out special auctions for individual collection areas and, if desired, also auction them directly on the client's premises under appropriate circumstances.
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15,000 euros
Luchini, Pietro A veiled, noble lady in a park landscape Luchini, Pietro A veiled, noble lady in a park landscape (Bergamo 1800-1883 Bologna) oil/canvas, doubled. Signed lower left. 109x91.5 cm. - Standing between a Muslim and a Christian tombstone in the Pera cemetery, probably symbolically as a mediator between the two world religions. Cf. F.Wärmel: Les Orientalistes, 2002, on the cover a comparable depiction of the artist and vita. Hammer price 15,000 euros A74 on July 29, 2017, lot 1038
380,000 euros
Cranach, Lucas I. - Workshop of Saint Jerome (Kronach 1472-1553 Weimar) Oil/softwood. Approx. 50x40cm. - In good condition apart from a few pieces of paint. - We thank Dr. Michael Hofbauer from the cranach research institute for examining the picture and for the following information: "I know of 18 depictions of Jerome, either penitent or seated in a landscape. 16 of them are turned to the left. Only the version in Vienna (CC-CMS-180- 001) from 1502 as well as a copy of the same show Jerome to the right. Only in the case of "your" picture does Jerome also grasp the trunk of the cross. Another deviation is the waving loin cloth of the Crucified that is present in all other works, which is missing here and also is not laid out in the underdrawing. The underdrawing is executed with aqueous India ink or ink and brush and applied freehand. There are no traces of transfer aids. In some places in the landscape and on branches, the painting deviates from the underdrawing. I hold the panel for a work from the workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder, which due to its technical structure s ow and the painting technique may have been created before 1512. A clear attribution to a single employee or to Cranach d.Ä. itself is not possible considering the current state of research". The panel was once in the Georg Krakow Collection, Berlin and was sold on November 12, 1918 (Krakow estate) from Rudolph Lepke, Berlin as lot 57 (as Cranach the Elder .) auctioned off. It was offered by Scheidwimmer, Munich, to the Heinemann Gallery on October 31, 1934 with the comment "probably workshop picture" for 8,000 Reichsmark It is also not clear whether there was a sale or whether the panel was among the pictures confiscated by the Gestapo in 1938. (cf. Birgi Jooss: Galerie Heinemann, The eventful history of a Jewish art dealership between 1872 and 1938). As early as 1978, an expert opinion was drawn up by Dr. Heine Maedebach, who also attributed the panel to the workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder and dated it around 1530. - An examination by the Ar t Loss register is available. Hammer price 380,000 euros A71 on 07/29/2016 Lot 60
27,000 euros
Museum altarpiece Friulian, mid-17th century. Cross-shaped, four-storey structure with numerous architectural elements of twisted columns, balustrades, aedicule gables, portals, etc., extensive relief and fully sculpted carvings, the two tabernacle doors with depictions of the crucifixion and burial of Christ in the niches Depictions of apostles and Mary Magdalene as well as scenes from the Old Testament, crowned by a dome with a Madonna on a cloud base and angel figures playing music and celebrating jubilation. Softwood and hardwood with original gilding and polychrome paint. 180x124x50cm. - Signs of age, few smaller pieces of carving lost. Hammer price 27,000 euros A73 on March 25, 2017 Lot 1135
40,000 euros
Shakyamuni Turns the Wheel of Teaching Tibet, 18th/19th Century On a high base decorated with ornamental borders and inscription, the Buddha seated on a double lotus throne in Padmasana position, hands performing the Dharmacakra Mudra, the head with long ears, stylized curls and small Ushnisha; the bottom sealed with a copper plate with a double vajra symbol on it. Bronze, fire gilded. H. 17.5 cm. Sale price 40,000 euros, auction 65 on July 26, 2014, lot 1822
12,000 euros
Schüz, Christian Georg I. Romantic river landscape (Flörsheim 1718-1791 Frankfurt/Main) Rocky low mountain range landscape with a meandering river valley, in the foreground a scene of merchants' houses, idyllic villages on the banks, castles and ruins on the hills. Oil/oak panel, doubl. Signed lower left. and dated "Schüz invent. et pinxit 1760". 34.5x48cm. - Lit. Thieme/Becker 30. Hammer price 12,000 euros A68 on 07/25/2015 Lot 691
63,000 euros
Bouman, Johannes Still Life with Carnations and Insects (Strasbourg around 1601/02-after 1635) Very finely executed still life with a branch of carnations lying on a stone console next to a lizard, surrounded by butterflies and other insects. Oil/oak panel. Signed lower center. 22x30cm. - Lit. Walter Bernt: The Dutch painters of the 17th century, vol. 1; Thieme/Becker 4, Saur AKL 13. - Provenance: Formerly Amsterdam private collection. Timely report by Prof. Claus Grimm is available. Hammer price 63,000 euros, auction 67 on March 28, 2001, lot 846
25,000 euros
Courtly Louis XV chest of drawers "à encoignures" Naples, around 1760 On corner studs and feet emphasized with openwork applications and the frame hanging in the middle, the wide, two-drawer body bulging on all sides with side doors and protruding, curved and profiled stucco marble top with green-violet grain ; The fronts of the drawers with geometric or frieze veneered bands and cartouche-shaped framed fields, star-shaped framed diamond marquetry on the door panels. Palisander, violet and rosewood veneered, gilt bronze fittings. 82 x 198 x 76 cm. - Furniture in museum quality in exquisite condition from an important Private collection Hammer price 25,000 euros A70 on 04/09/2016 Lot 1190
46,000 euros
Joli, Antonio View of Rome (Modena 1700-1777 Venice) An animated view of the river Tiber with the bridge Sant' Angelo and its marble figures by Bernini, on the right the papal Castel Sant'Angelo and in the background the Cathedral of St. Peter and a wide view of the Janiculus Hill. oil/canvas 80 x 121.6 cm. - Provenance: German private collection. - Expert report by Ralph Toledano from 09/08/2014 is available. - Several versions of this view are known. - Extensive overpainting and paint damage, especially in the sky area. - Verso gallery label Erich Beckmann Hanover. Hammer price 46,000 euros A66 on 29.11.2014 Lot 1030
185,000 euros
Picasso, Pablo "Tête de toréador, 30/10/1964" (Malaga 1881-1973 Mougins) Colored chalk drawing. Signed and dedicated on the right. 35.5 x 26 cm; framed under glass. - Provenance: Brian Brake, New Zealand, later privately owned in southern Germany - The drawing from 1964, which shows Picasso's son Claude as a young matador, is sketched in a few ingenious chalk lines and provided with a dedication to the New Zealand photographer Brian Brake: "Pour mon cher BB son ami Picasso le 30.10. 1964". Brake worked for the London photo agency Magnum and gained worldwide fame with his photos of Pablo Picasso and his family during a bullfight in Vallauris, southern France, in 1955. Nine years later, Picasso thanked Brake with the drawing of his son with a matador cap, which is now offered here - based on one of the photos from his series. Claude Picasso, who issued a handwritten certificate of authenticity for the drawing in May 2011, confirmed that the portrait was a personal gift from Pablo Picasso to the photographer. The drawing was exhibited in 2012/13 in the Kunsthalle Emden ("Artists' children: from Runge to Richter, from Dix to Picasso") and in 2015/16 in the Pablo Picasso Art Museum in Münster in the exhibition "Picasso - Sweet Bird Youth". - Provenance: from a private collection in southern Germany. Hammer price 185,000 euros A71 on July 29, 2016, lot 83
12,000 euros
Representative Scagliola table Italy, 2nd half of the 19th century. Three-braced base with three fully plastic lion heads on paws as legs, the round top with elaborate Scagliola decoration, partly imitating Pietra Dura inlays: in the center signs of the zodiac with names of the months, more figurative all around Frieze with hunting scenes. Wood, bronze, stucco marble. H. 78 cm, Ø 126 cm. Hammer price 12,000 euros A74 on July 29, 2017, lot 1371
25,000 euros
Reni, Guido - School or workshop The penitent Mary Magdalene (Calvenzano 1575-1642 Bologna) Oil/canvas. 128x95 cm. - The painting was made by Dr. Emilio Negro and Dr. Nicosetta Roio examined in the original on January 25, 2012. Both experts have no doubt that this is an autograph work by the famous Bolognese artist. A detailed report from 2012 is included with the painting. Prof. Eduard Safarik assesses the painting as a work that was probably created in the workshop, while other experts on Roman-Bolognese High Baroque painting (Prof. Massimo Pulini, Prof. Erich Schleier, Prof. Herwarth Roettgen) consider the painting to be of the highest quality student who, possibly already active towards the end of the century, varied a work by Reni. It is clearly not a copy. Gian Gioseffo del Sole was suggested as a possible candidate. (Correspondences with the experts are available). In addition, a color analysis in the sky revealed a pigment that was only in use around 1700. However, this could also be due to later retouching. The Magdalena is a very high-quality variant of the work that was formerly in the Barberini collection, then Almagia, see Stephen Pepper: Guido Reni, 1988, color plate XI. No. 135. In terms of art history, it is one of the main Baroque works of the classic Bolognese tradition. Hammer price 25,000 euros, auction 61 on June 29, 2013, lot 603
22,000 euros
Saint George South Germany, around 1500 On a rock base on his white horse fully armored fighting saint, under the horse the squirming dragon, in the background a couple standing on the balcony of a castle as well as the figure of a young woman facing left. Wood, carved and colored. 44x34x17cm. - Signs of age. Hammer price 22,000 euros A72 on 26.11.2016 lot 742
54,000 euros
Hanging Scroll with Shan Shui Landscape China, 2nd half of 19th century Temple in the mountains. Black ink/paper mounted on silk. Seal of the painter Yü Chien and four-line inscription poem. 170 x 49.5 cm, total 218x56.5cm. Hammer price 54,000 euros Auction 53 – 11/13/2010 Lot 599
50,000 euros
Roubaud, Franz Alekseyevich Circassian Riders Crossing a River (Odessa 1856-1928 Munich) Oil/canvas. Signed lower left. 79x121 cm. - Ref. Thieme/Becker 29; studied with Otto Seitz, Wilhelm von Diez, Theodor von Piloty and Joseph von Brand; was ennobled in 1889 and by the tsars Nicholas II and Alexander III. promoted; from 1903-12 professor at the Art Academy in St. Petersburg. Provenance: from a Franconian private collection. Hammer price 50,000 euros A55 – 02.07.2011 Lot 533
27,000 euros
Museum altarpiece Friulian, mid-17th century. Cross-shaped, four-storey structure with numerous architectural elements of twisted columns, balustrades, aedicule gables, portals, etc., extensive relief and fully sculpted carvings, the two tabernacle doors with depictions of the crucifixion and burial of Christ in the niches Depictions of apostles and Mary Magdalene as well as scenes from the Old Testament, crowned by a dome with a Madonna on a cloud base and angel figures playing music and celebrating jubilation. Softwood and hardwood with original gilding and polychrome paint. 180x124x50cm. - Signs of age, few smaller pieces of carving lost. Hammer price 27,000 euros A73 on March 25, 2017 Lot 1135
235,000 euros
Chelmonski, Józef - attributed to Polish soldiers in front of a farm (Boczki 1849-1914 Kuklówka) Oil/canvas. Fully signed lower left, place name. and dated "Paris 1880". 72.5x170cm. - Age-related damage, in need of restoration. - Lit. Thieme/Becker 6, Vollmer 5, Saur AKL 18. - The picture was checked without an entry in the art loss register. Hammer price 235,000 euros A54 – 03/19/2011 Lot 434
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