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Auction 092 'Art Nouveau - Art Déco' am 23.11.2010

Auction 092 on 26.10.2010
Art Nouveau - Art Déco

Post auction sale until 23.11.2010

 

Post auction report

In recent years, Quittenbaum Art Auctions has been able to become one of the most important collecting points for pâte de verre items.

At the beginning of the auction, items and vases of the Amalric Walter workshop could be sold to bidders inland and abroad surpassing their estimates by far. For example an erotic scene that went from € 2,500 up to € 4,400 and the ‚Ruche et abeilles’ jar for which a bidder is willing to pay € 5,500.

Exceptionally attractive in the sale was the group of animal figurines of the workshop of Emile Gallé that had been advertised in the press prior to the auction. A telephone bidder secured for himself not only the pair ‚Monsieur le Comte’ and ‚Monsieur le Baron’ but also the other two pugs and one of the cats. The cats decorated with Spanish Court attire and flower dress respectively, will be travelling to Japan. A beautiful showcase by Gallé will, as did the etagere with dragonfly of the preceding auction, go to an American collection.

The interest in glasses by Gallé and Daum is still high. Especially the Japanese trade, whose representatives were being there in person and on the phone supports this branch. But a strong interest from German and Swiss collectors could be registered, too, taking part online and via phone. The hammer price for a ‚japanese’ vase with cicada, circa 1889, must be mentioned (€ 8,000). A slender, fully cut vase with Calla went from € 6,000 up to € 12,500 and was hammered down in favour of a telephone bidder. A table light with Alps landscape and flying eagles went to a Japanese bidder in the room for € 6,300. A Swiss telephone bidder secured for himself a fully cut vase by Daum with fine silver-overlay for double its tax of € 5,000. A very rare jar with La Fontaine’s ‚the wolf and the lamb’ fable went from € 2,100 up to 6,100 in favour of the same Japanese collector mentioned above. On the other hand, a beautiful vase with snowfall and raven went to a German telephone bidder for € 12,200. Animated interest also in glasses by Lalique, Muller and Schneider.

In the French ceramics section the highest hammer price was attained by a very rare ‚Lady with muff’ by Georges de Feure for Samuel Bing’s Art Nouveau gallery, price increasing from € 3,800 to 6,500. The French section knew its culmination with a mirror, displaying a Moroccan landscape by Jacques Majorelle that attained € 14,000.

Highest result in the bronze-and-ivory section: € 10,000 for the Swans by August Gaul, cast at Noack, Friedenau. The ‚Bat dancer’, the ‚Golfer’ and ‚Proserpina’ got the highest prices of the designs of Ferdinand Preiss with € 8,500 to € 14,000.

Not to forget the glasses of Johann Loetz Wwe. A Phänomen vase for Max Emanuel, London, reached its estimate of € 5,400. The figurines of the Hagenauer workshop were coveted as well, a large woman’s head of brass was hammered down at € 8,500. Metal works were the highlights of the German Art Nouveau choice. Peter Behrens’ flowerpot for the Garden exhibition in Dusseldorf in 1904 almost doubled its estimated of € 4,000 and went up to € 7,700.