• Post-War and Contemporary Art  auction at Christies

    Sale 7835

    Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction

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    12 February 2010

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    Lot 273

    KAI ALTHOFF (B. 1966)

    WINTER

    Price realised

    GBP 37,250

    Estimate

    GBP 30,000 - GBP 40,000

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    KAI ALTHOFF (B. 1966)
    WINTER
    ALUMINIUM FOIL, BOAT LACQUER, INK, WATERCOLOUR, METALLIC PAINT AND VARNISH ON CANVAS
    23 5/8 X 15 7/8IN. (60 X 40CM.)
    PAINTED IN 2002

    Provenance

    GALERIE CHRISTIAN NAGEL, COLOGNE.
    MARC JANCOU FINE ART, NEW YORK.
    ANON. SALE, PHILLIPS DE PURY AND COMPANY NEW YORK, 12 MAY 2005, LOT 12.
    ACQUIRED AT THE ABOVE SALE BY THE PRESENT OWNER.

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    Exhibited

    FREISING, DIöZESANMUSEUM, KAI ALTHOFF UND ABEL AUER VOM MONTE SCHERBELINO SEHEN, FEBRUARY-APRIL 2003.
    BOSTON, INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, KAI ALTHOFF: KAI KEIN RESPEKT (KAI NO RESPECT), MAY-SEPTEMBER 2004. THIS EXHIBITION LATER TRAVELLED TO CHICAGO, MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, SEPTEMBER 2004-JANUARY 2005 (ILLUSTRATED, P. 119, NO. 131).
    LONDON, THE SAATCHI GALLERY, THE TRIUMPH OF PAINTING, JANUARY-OCTOBER 2005 (ILLUSTRATED IN COLOUR, UNPAGED).


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    VAT rate of 17.5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium
    Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.


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