Auction A536
The Bayer Collection
By VAN HAM Kunstauktionen GmbH Co. KG
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Jun 3, 2025
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LOT 132:
Christian Rohlfs: Sonnenblumen auf dunklem Grund
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Sold for: €12,000
Price including buyer’s premium:
€
16,200
Start price:
€
8,000
Estimate :
€10,000 - €15,000
Buyer's Premium: 35%
VAT: 19%
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Christian Rohlfs: Sonnenblumen auf dunklem Grund
ROHLFS, CHRISTIAN
1849 Niendorf - 1938 Hagen
Title: Sonnenblumen auf dunklem Grund.
Date: 1937.
Technique: Tempera on laid paper.
Measurement: 57,5 x 67cm.
Notation: Monogrammed lower right: CR. Additionally inscribed verso, presumably by a hand other than that of the artist: Nr. 114 Sonnenblumen auf schwarzem Grund 1937. Additionally labelled with various inventory numbers.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.
Provenance:
- The artist's estate
- Bayer AG, Leverkusen (acquired from the previous owner in 1955)
Exhibitions:
- Museum Folkwang, Essen 1955
- Farbenfabriken Bayer, Leverkusen 1955
- Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 2013
Literature:
- Exhib. cat. Christian Rohlfs, Gemälde, Tempera-Blätter, Zeichnungen und Graphik, Museum Folkwang/Farbenfabriken Bayer, Leverkusen 1955, p. 31
- Exhib. cat. From Beckmann to Warhol, Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries - The Bayer Collection, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cologne 2013, p. 93, fig.
Estimated shipping costs for this lot:
Germany: 77,31 Euro plus 14,69 Euro VAT
EU: 100,84 Euro plus 19,16 Euro VAT
Worldwide: 159,66 Euro plus 30,34 Euro VAT
additional shipping insurance
This lot will be sold under standard taxation (Condition of Sale §V5.1)
Explanations to the Catalogue
Christian Rohlfs
Germany
North German Expressionism
Modern Art
1930s
Framed
Flowers
Works on paper
Tempera
