Preview 125th Art Auction – Impressionist & Modern Art
return to overviewIMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART – 30 November & 1 December 2018
The jubilee auction presents a veritable who’s who of art after 1900, but it kicks off with one of Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller’s loveliest paintings “Children Playing with Dolls” from 1864. It is a prominent and convincing statement that modernism began already in the 19th century.

Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918)
Sitzendes Mädchen, 1918
schwarze Kreide auf Papier
46 x 29,5 cm
250.000 – 500.000 €

Wilhelm Thöny* (1888 – 1949)
Die schönen Künste, um 1925
Öl auf Leinwand,
180 x 265 cm
250.000 – 500.000 €

Gustav Klimt (1862 – 1918)
Studie für „Der Pelzkragen“, um 1916
Bleistift auf Papier; 57 x 37,5 cm
100.000 – 200.000 €
Just how surreal our existence can be interpreted is demonstrated by works such as the fantastical nocturnal woodland scenery by Franz SEDLACEK, Albert BIRKLE’s eerie “Leipziger Straße in Berlin” or by the “Mountain of Crystal” by MAN RAY. The first farmer from Albin EGGER-LIENZ’s famous “Dance of Death” reveals the existential element of life with no more than one colour, while Rudolf WACKER expresses his speechlessness in his time of political turmoil with the mere symbol of a rustic jug. The offerings are rounded out by watercolours and gouaches by George Grosz, August Macke, Fernand Léger and others.