Auction A536
The Bayer Collection
By VAN HAM Kunstauktionen GmbH Co. KG
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Jun 3, 2025
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Auction: Tuesday, 3 June 2025
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LOT 149:
Günther Förg: Untitled
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Sold for: €80,000
Price including buyer’s premium:
€
108,000
Start price:
€
55,000
Estimate :
€70,000 - €100,000
Buyer's Premium: 35%
VAT: 19%
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Günther Förg: Untitled
FÖRG, GÜNTHER
1952 Füssen - 2013 Freiburg
Title: Untitled. 32 parts.
Date: 1987.
Technique: Each: Watercolour and gouache on brown paper.
Measurement: 32 x 24cm.
Notation: Signed and dated verso: Förg 87. Here also each labelled consecutively from 1/32 to 32/32.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.
The work is registered under the number WVF.87.P.1717 in the archive of the Estate of Günther Förg. We would like to thank Mr. Michael Neff of the Estate of Günther Förg for kindly confirming the authenticity of this work.
Provenance:
- Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna
- Bayer Inc., USA
- Bayer AG, Leverkusen (acquired from the previous owner in 2005)
Exhibitions:
- Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 2013
Literature:
- Farbenfabriken Bayer (ed.): Kunstwerk - Bildende Kunst bei Bayer, Leverkusen 1992, p. 159, fig.
- Miksche, Uta: Bayer Collection of Contemporary Art, Sewickly 1995, p. 38f., fig.
- Exhib. cat. From Beckmann to Warhol, Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries - The Bayer Collection, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cologne 2013, p. 230, fig.
- Strong spatial presence
- Powerful composition in the artist's unmistakable visual language
- Comparable works are rarely offered on the auction market
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This lot will be sold under standard taxation (Condition of Sale §V5.1)
Explanations to the Catalogue
Günther Förg
Germany
Abstraction
Post-War Art
Post War
1980s
Framed
Colour
Works on paper
Mixed media
Shapes
