Anselm Kiefer

Wölund-Lied [Wayland's Song]

Found at Sothebys, New York
Contemporary Evening Auction, Lot 114
9. May - 20. May 2022
Estimate: 1.000.000 - 1.500.000 USD
Price realised: 819.000 USD
Property from the Collection of Hardie Beloff
Anselm Kiefer
b. 1945
Wölund-Lied [Wayland's Song]
oil, emulsion, acrylic, straw, metal and wood on canvas
114 ⅛ by 161 in.
290 by 409 cm.
Executed in 1982.
----------------------------------------------- 安森・基弗
Charles Saatchi, London (acquired directly from the artist) | Gagosian Gallery | Private Collection, Japan | Entwistle Gallery, London | Private Collection, San Francisco | Entwistle Gallery, London & Holtermann Fine Art, London | Acquired from the above in 1998 by the present owner

Auction result misses estimated price range

This work of art by Anselm Kiefer could be acquired at Sothebys in New York in May last year for an unexpectedly low price. In the Contemporary Evening Auction auction, the work Wölund-Lied Wayland's Song changed hands for USD 819,000.00 (€ 763,209.39) - missing the lower end of the estimate range of USD 1,000,000.00 – 1,500,000.00. However, buyers have had to dig much deeper into their pockets for other works by Anselm Kiefer - we have observed the highest auction result to date for the work Für Velimir Khlebnikov: Die Lehre vom Krieg: Seeschlachten, which sold at auction in June 2016 for GBP 2,389,000.00 (€ 2,867,579.59).

Auktionsergebnis verfehlt die Schätzpreisspanne

Dieses Kunstwerk von Anselm Kiefer konnte im Mai letzten Jahres bei Sothebys in New York für einen unerwartet niedrigen Preis ersteigert werden. In der Auktion Contemporary Evening Auction wechselte die Arbeit Wölund-Lied Wayland's Song für USD 819.000,00 (€ 763.209,39) den Besitzer – und verfehlte damit das untere Ende der Schätzpreisspanne von USD 1.000.000,00 – 1.500.000,00. Für andere Arbeiten von Anselm Kiefer mussten die Käufer allerdings auch schon deutlich tiefer in die Tasche greifen – das bisher höchste Auktionsergebnis haben wir für die Arbeit Für Velimir Khlebnikov: Die Lehre vom Krieg: Seeschlachten beobachtet, die im Juni 2016 für GBP 2.389.000,00 (€ 2.867.579,59) versteigert wurde.

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