Next Auction:
June 5 and 6, 2012

Our next auction will be held on June 5 and 6, 2012, at the Kempinski Hotel on Kurfürstendamm. The viewing will take place on June 4 at the same place.

Kempinski Hotel Bristol Berlin
Gartensaal
Kurfürstendamm 27
10719 Berlin
Tel. +49 (0)30 8843 40
Fax +49 (0)30 883 6075

Please click here for an illustrated flyer.
To download the auction catalogue please click here.

Special Auction in Basel:
October 21 and 22, 2011

Our special auction in Basel, staged in co-operation with Moirandat Company AG, closed with a number of outstanding sales and a high overall result. The total sum of estimates amounted to 2.4 m CHF; the sum of the hammer prices amounted to 3 m CHF.
The most important piece at the auction, Schiller’s manuscript of five choral verses from his ‘Ode to Joy’, went to a private German collection for the sum of 500.000 CHF.

Other high hammer prices included (1 CHF = 0.81 €):

Lot 20, Charles Baudelaire, letter 1858: 20.000.–
Lot 83, Denis Diderot, letter 1768: 22.000.–
Lot 97, Gustave Flaubert, letter 1851: 20.000.–
Lot 123, Johann Wolfgang v. Goethe, letter 1773: 22.000.–
Lot 124, Johann Wolfgang v. Goethe, letter 1790: 30.000.–
Lot 128, Johann Wolfgang v. Goethe, poem 1816: 44.000.–
Lot 129, Johann Wolfgang v. Goethe, letter 1816: 32.000.–
Lot 231, Heinrich Heine, letter 1847: 36.000.–
Lot 357, Novalis, letter 1794: 24.000.–
Lot 361, Marcel Proust, manuscript 1890: 30.000.–
Lot 412, Friedrich v. Schiller, letter 1799: 24.000.–
Lot 557, Paul Klee, manuscript 1918: 42.000.–
Lot 573, Kasimir Malewitsch, letter 1932: 24.000.–
Lot 663, Carl Gustav Jung, letter 1912: 21.000.–
Lot 671, Gottfried Wilhelm v. Leibniz, letter 1700: 32.000.–
Lot 685, Friedrich Nietzsche, letter 1886: 65.000.–
Lot 864, Karl Marx, manuscript 1850: 33.000.–
Lot 945, Katharina v. Medici, letter 1562: 24.000.–
Lot 957, Napoleon I., letter 1795: 34.000.–

You will find a list of the results showing all of the hammer prices here.