After the last lot from the collection of Helga and Edzard Reuter had been added to Christie’s in Paris, the France boss of the auction house, Cécile Verdier, was able to cover the symbolic white gloves. All 49 works he compiled with esprit and passion of abstract art of post -war had changed the owner – mostly beyond the upper estimate. The collection included 7.5 million euros in a total maintenance of three to five million euros. A bidding battle broke out for the top of the possession of the former Daimler-Benz boss and his wife. Yves Klein’s “Relief Planétaire Terre (Marseille, Aix)” in the intensely ultramarine Klein-Blau was awarded the contract at 1.3 million euros (taxi 600,000 to 800,000 euros). Surcharge at 1.3 million euros: Yves Klein, “Relief Planetaire Terre (Marseille, Aix)”, 1961, IKB on relief in mixing technology, 61 by 48.2 centimeters, Taxe 600,000 to 800,000 Eurochristy orange -brown, with sand and pavettes edited by Lucio Fontana from 1956 reached 800,000 euros (400,000/600,000). The result of the third topless, an elegant “Superficie Nera” Enrico Castellanis from 1964, appears almost disappointing. With 230,000 euros, the black monochrome in the lower tax area (200,000/300,000 euros) that was tensioned on nails remained auctioned out in Stuttgart, subtle or subversive aesthetics of abstract The Reuter couple fascinated post -war savant garde. In his house in Stuttgart, works primarily gathered by European artists who observed each other, were often friends with each other or exhibited together like Castellani, Klein and Lucio Fontana or Piero Manzoni. At the end of the 1950s, Castellani exhibited several times in Düsseldorf with Günther Uecker, Otto Piene and Heinz Mack. Works by the latter three achieved good to excellent results at the auction. A “white field” by the nail artist Uecker came to 320,000 euros (150,000/200,000), a “smoke picture” from Otto Piene far beyond taxes to 230,000 euros (up to 70,000). Awarf 170 loose from the Reuter collection with less priced works, editions and edition objects will come to the auction on July 16 at Nagel in Stuttgart.
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