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AUTUMNPREVIEW

2019

AUCTION HOUSE

“If you stop becoming better, you stop being good!“

2019 - the year after our twenty-fi fth anniversary, which we celebrated fi ttingly with the most suc-cessful auction in the history of the fi rm. It is also the year in which the two co-founders, Ernst Ploil and Michael Kovacek, retired from the manage-ment in order to devote themselves completely to their activities as Experts. Which makes it a good time for a half-year review and a look ahead to au-tumn!

Records at im Kinsky

Our June auction saw no fewer than four new world records (for Franz Sedlacek, Alexander Rot-haug, and two for Rudolf Polanszky), the world’s third-highest bid for a work on paper by Gustav Klimt, and an increase in our sales rates. Innovation at im Kinsky

We have made our online bidding platform and our live stream even better and faster to better serve you. Thanks to intensive optimization measures, we now have one of Europe’s fastest live-bidding systems with latency of a mere 0.8–1.2 seconds. Some 1,200 customers around the world now use this service.

Customer orientation & service at im Kinsky

We win over customers not only with our experti-se, discretion, and integrity, but also with our ser-vice and other important “soft facts”. For us, this includes personalized advice and support tailored to each customer, highest level of customer orien-tation, our fl exibility, the friendliness of our staff, and our accessibility. We are available to our cus-tomers by telephone Monday to Friday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and personally from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.—longer than any other auction house in Europe.

I would like to thank our customers for their trust in us. They have made the auction house im Kinsky what it is today. At the same time I would like to express my thanks to our staff, whose meticulous work and great personal commitment is always focussed directly on our customers and their art, and—last but not least—to my two partners, Mi-chael Kovacek and Ernst Ploil, from whom I have learned a great deal over the course of the past eighteen months.

I concur fully with Philip Rosenthal’s observation that “If you stop becoming better, you stop being good”. We see this as a mandate to become even better for you.

We hope to see you soon at the auction house im Kinsky!

Christoph la GardeManaging Partner

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auction house im Kinsky!

Christoph la Garde

FOREWORD

HUNTING FOR ART

Franz Sedlacek, Waldlandschaft mit Jäger,1928, 79 x 74 cm, SOLD € 315,000

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AUTUMN 2018 - SPRING 2019

The record season promptly took off in our ju-bilee year 2018 thanks to a colorful painting by Friedensreich Hundertwasser „831 Tender Din-ghi”. Its outstanding sale price of € 441,000 was the starting signal for a world record series conti-nuing well into spring 2019.

Prices during the auction in June rose as rapidly as the temperatures, and on the fi rst day Gustav Klimt’s “Ladies’ bust portrait from the front” rang in a new Austrian record.

Moreover, Franz Sedlacek’s wonderful “Land-schaft mit Nebelmeer” and “The three Parcae” from Alexander Rothaug confi rmed the impor-tance of the classic modernists regarding world record breaking prices.

The perfect ending to a fantastic fi rst season was achieved by the sale of Rudolf Polanszky’s “Re-constructions” at the contemporary auction. The hammer came down at € 126,000 – which more than doubled the previous world record, equally achieved at im Kinsky.

RECORDRESULTS

Gustav Klimt, Ladies’ bust portrait from the front, 1897/98, 45 x 32 cm,

Austrian record / SOLD € 705,600

Alexander Rothaug, The three Parcae,arround 1910, 124 x 174 cm

Worldrecord / SOLD € 189,000

Rudolf Polanszky, Reconstructions,2005, 170 x 269 cm


Friedensreich Hundertwasser, 831 Tender Dinghi, 1982, 64 x 43 cm


Franz Sedlacek, Landschaft mit Nebelmeer, 1921, 71 x 71 cm,


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129TH AUCTION

We will accept your consignments untill:AUGUST 30TH 2019

OLD MASTER PAINTINGS

19TH CENTURY PAINTINGS

ANTIQUES

OCTOBER, 22 & 23ND RD

We are pleased to help your Old Masters fi nd new friends!You may call or write to us, and we will be delighted to assist you

with the entire selling process.

Evaluation & Advisory:

19TH Century Paintings

Monika SchweighoferMichael Kovacek

Tel: +43 1 532 [email protected]

Old Master Paintings

Kareen M. SchmidMichael Kovacek


Antiques

Eva Gruber-LetzMichael Kovacek


Representative Tirol and Vorarlberg

Marianne Hussl-Hörmann


Representative Steiermark and Kärnten

Elisabeth Skofi tsch-Haas

Tel: +43 676 450 6750skofi [email protected]

ClientAdvisor

Nadine Kraus-Drasche


Selected results fromour last auction

Marie Egner SOLD € 56,700

Carl Josef AgricolaSOLD € 120,960

Michel Erhart Werkstatt SOLD € 126,000

Habaner Pot SOLD € 22,680

Minerva SOLD € 132,300

Jakob SeiseneggerSOLD € 69,300

Personal stationaryfrom Archduke Franz Ferdinand

SOLD € 23,940Abraham TeniersSOLD € 88,200

Ferdinand Georg WaldmüllerSOLD € 138,600

130TH AUCTION

We will accept your consignments untill:OKTOBER 4TH 2019

CONTEMPORARY ART

ART NOUVEAU & DESIGN

MODERN ART

We would be delighted to count your artwork among our record breaking pieces.Please call or email us and we will be happy to advise you from estimate to sale.

Evaluation & Advisory:

Modern Art

Claudia Mörth-GasserMichael Kovacek


Contemporary Art

Astrid PfeifferChristoph la Garde


Art Nouveau & Design

Anja WolfErnst Ploil


Representative Tirol and Vorarlberg

Marianne Hussl-Hörmann


Representative Steiermark and Kärnten

Elisabeth Skofi tsch-Haas

Tel: +43 676 450 6750skofi [email protected]

ClientAdvisor

Nadine Kraus-Drasche


NOVEMBER, 26 & 27TH TH

Werner Berg SOLD € 226,800

Alfons WaldeSOLD € 365,400

Josef HoffmannSOLD € 75,600

Franz WestSOLD € 151,200

Xenia HausnerSOLD € 81,900

Bruno ZachSOLD € 56,700

Rudolf WackerSOLD € 126,000

Roy LichtensteinSOLD € 47,880

Koloman MoserSOLD € 44,100

Selected results fromour last auction

EXHIBITION KUNSTRAUM im Kinsky

Contemporary artists in conversation with Old Masters

Titanilla Eisenhart | Maria Hahnenkamp | Luisa Kasalicky | Suse Krawagna |Maria Legat | Julie Monaco | Astrid Rausch | Eva Wagner | Anita Witek

The exhibition unites nine Austrian female artists, of a middle generation, working in painting and photography. Their work is being put in a dialogue with paintings from Old Masters, the latter being auctioned off during the Autumn sales at im Kins-ky. Each artist has been choosing their own Old Masters counterpart as a vis-a-vis.

This unique confrontation between Old Masters and Contemporary Art will manifest the impor-tance and relevance of epoch-encompassing art.

Collectors usually favor a certain area in the histo-ry of art to assemble their possessions. This exhi-bition focuses on blurring those lines and asks ex-citing questions about painting and photography, while establishing a connection between shape and content.

Old Masters always have been contemporaries in their own time. Many still are very modern – both regarding their formal and painting technique. They were seen as even more revolutionary in their lifetimes! This way of thinking that has been almost forgotten today, where the market for Contemporary Art is booming.

The title “Not a Muse’s kiss, my dear” points in a self-assured, coquettish and loving way to how nine contemporary female artists act when put in context with their beloved Old Masters.

17.09. - 25.10.2019Mo-Fr / 10 AM - 6 PM

KUNSTRAUM im KinskyPalais Kinsky, Courtyard

CURATED BY STEFAN ROTHLEITNER

NOT A MUSE‘S KISS, MY DEAR!

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Lorenzo Bartolini, Bust of a young girl, Marbel, height 50 cm

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