Auction: Photographs from the Teutloff Collection, May 24, 2013 @Lempertz

In addition to its usual various owner sale, Kunsthaus Lempertz has a single owner photography sale later this week in Cologne drawn from the collection of Dr. H.C. Lutz Teutloff. It's a challenging, risk taking collection, the works connected by the common theme of the human body. The catalog is loosely divided into sections including nudes, tattooed bodies, religion, and various other portraits and collections of bodies, many closer to experimental than classic. Overall, there are a total of 99 lots of photography on offer, with a Total High Estimate of €436500.

Here's the statistical breakdown:

Total Low Lots (high estimate up to and including €7500): 82
Total Low Estimate (sum of high estimates of Low lots): €232500

Total Mid Lots (high estimate between €7500 and €35000): 17
Total Mid Estimate: €204000

Total High Lots (high estimate above €35000): 0
Total High Estimate: NA

The top lot by High estimate is lot 313, Hendrik Kerstens, Bag, 2007, estimated at €15000-20000 (image at right, top, via Lempertz).

Here's the list of photographers who are represented by two or more lots in the sale (with the number of lots in parentheses):

Robert Doisneau (3)
Jürgen Klauke (3)
Dieter Appelt (2)
Roger Ballen (2)
Christian Boltanski (2)
Lucien Clergue (2)
Nan Goldin (2)
Bill Henson (2)
Eikoh Hosoe (2)
Yousuf Karsh (2)
Robert Lebeck (2)
Stefan Moses (2)
Mario Cravo Neto (2)
Eva Schlegel (2)
Valie Export (2)

Other works of interest include lot 343, Jürgen Klauke, Toter Photograph, 1988, estimated at €14000-18000 (image at right, bottom, via Lempertz) and lot 366, Roger Ballen, Puppy Between Feet, 1999, estimated at €2000-3000 (image at right, middle, via Lempertz).

The complete lot by lot online catalog can be found here.

Photographs from the Teutloff Collection
May 24th

Kunsthaus Lempertz
Neumarkt 3
D-50667 Köln

Auction Results: Photographie, June 10, 2011 @Van Ham

The recent photography sale at Van Ham in Cologne didn't provide much in the way of fireworks. While there were a number of positive surprises (led by several prints by Albert Renger-Patzsch), they weren't enough to overcome a Buy-In rate over 55%. Overall, the Total Sale Proceeds fell well below the pre-sale estimate. (Van Ham does not provide an estimate range in many cases, just a single estimate number, so this figure is used as the High estimate in our calculations).
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The summary statistics are below (all results include the buyer’s premium):

Total Lots: 398
Pre Sale High Total Estimate: 793380€
Total Lots Sold: 172
Total Lots Bought In: 226
Buy In %: 56.78%
Total Sale Proceeds: 472228€

Here is the breakdown (using the Low, Mid, and High definitions from the preview post, here):

Low Total Lots: 383
Low Sold: 165
Low Bought In: 218
Buy In %: 56.92%
Total Low Estimate: 626380€
Total Low Sold: 344578€

Mid Total Lots: 15
Mid Sold: 7
Mid Bought In: 8
Buy In %: 53.33%
Total Mid Estimate: 167000€
Total Mid Sold: 127650€

High Total Lots: 0
High Sold: NA
High Bought In: NA
Buy In %: NA
Total High Estimate: 0€
Total High Sold: NA

The top lot by High estimate was lot 1146, Floris Neusüss, Sabine, 1961, at 16000-18000€; it did not sell. The top outcome of the sale was lot 1112, Jürgen Klauke, Konfrontation, 1977, at 41400€. (image at right, middle, via Van Ham)

71.51% of the lots that sold had proceeds in or above the estimate. There were a total of 18 surprises in the sale (defined as having proceeds of at least double the high estimate):

Lot 1038, Max Burchartz, Lotte (Auge), 1928/1980, at 2760€
Lot 1045, Chargesheimer, Il Suono, 1950, at 2760€ (image at right, bottom, via Van Ham)
Lot 1054, Walter Dexel, Neue Wege der Photographie, 1928, at 6325€
Lot 1112, Jürgen Klauke, Konfrontation, 1977, at 41400€ (image at right, middle, via Van Ham)
Lot 1153, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Bergmannshauser in Essen-Stoppenberg, 1929, at 21850€
Lot 1158, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Eichenkamp bei Wamel, 1945, at 5520€
Lot 1159, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Schwarzwald. Elbingswald im Regen, 1940, at 8625€ (image at right, top, via Van Ham)
Lot 1160, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Winter, 1950, at 3450€
Lot 1187, August Sander, Soldaten der englischen Besatzungstruppen, 1924, at 2040€
Lot 1220, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Time Exposed, 1991, at 13800€
Lot 1222, Unbekannt, Action, 1970, at 3795€
Lot 1283, Karl Hugo Schmolz, Kolner Dom, 1947, at 2300€
Lot 1288, Eddie Adams, Execution in Saigon, 1968, at 1140€
Lot 1304, Felix Bonfils, Naher Osten, 1870s, at 2040€
Lot 1347, Heinirch Kuhn, Waschetrocknerin in den Dunen, 1906, at 1200€
Lot 1348, Heinrich Kuhn, Hamburger Hafen, 1911, at 1320€
Lot 1389, Nick Ut, South Vietnam War Napalm Bombing, 1972/1978, at 4025€
Lot 1390, George West & Son, Segelyachten, 1890s, at 516€

Complete lot by lot results can be found here.

Van Ham Kunstauktionen
Schönhauser Straße 10 - 16
D - 50968 Köln