TERMS OF AUCTION
Extract from the Rules of Procedure, as of April 2022
The auctions are conducted in accordance with the Rules of Procedure of the Widder Auctions of Kunsthandel Widder GmbH. The exact wording of these rules is available at the auction house and can be downloaded from www.widderauktionen.com.
Estimated prices, starting price, minimum sale price, limit, hammer price
In object descriptions, an upper and lower estimated price is stated in euros. The highest bid is expected within this range. The starting price is also stated online. As a rule, the starting price is the lower estimated price, but it
can be set higher or lower. The auctioneer increases the price by steps of approx. 10%, although it is possible to deviate from this. The highest bid wins, provided that the minimum selling price has been reached. If the seller decides not to sell the object below a fixed price, this is called the minimum sale price or limit. If this is not reached, the sale is considered conditional. Highest bidders are obliged to pay the purchase price within 7 days after invoicing.
Purchase price
The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.
In the case of normal taxation (marked ° ), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. For paintings, watercolors, drawings and sculptures, the statutory sales tax of 13% is added to the sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium, for all other objects 20%.
Resale Right
Items marked * are subject to the resale right. This will be charged in the form of a surcharge on the highest bid. It only applies to highest bids over € 2,499.99 and is staggered: for the first € 50,000 4% will be charged. Thereafter, for each additional €150,000, 3% and 1% respectively, and for €500,000 and above, 0.25%. The maximum resale right charge is 12,500 €.
Authenticity guarantee
The auction house vouches for the authenticity of the object to the buyer within two years and guarantees that the object is indeed by the named artist.
Catalog information and description
Details of technique, signature, material, condition, provenance, etc. are provided by experts of the auction house. However, no guarantee is given for the correctness of this information.
The descriptions of the objects mean: first and last name of the artist with life data: an authentic work of the artist. "Signed" or "monogrammed": a clearly attributable work by the artist. "Attributed": a probably, but not necessarily authentic, work by the artist. "Circle": a work created within the artist's sphere of influence. "Inscribed": a probably authentic work, but not signed by the artist's hand. "Workshop": a work created in the artist's immediate environment. "School": a work created in temporal and stylistic proximity to the artist. "Succession": a stylistically related work created in the artist's succession.
Purchase orders
Interested parties may submit purchase orders in writing and online or bid by telephone. A completed and signed bid form must be received in a timely manner prior to the auction. The auction house will bid for written bids up to the stated highest bid.
Telephone Bids
Interested parties have the possibility to bid by telephone. The auction house will make every effort to reach the telephone number provided. If no telephone connection can be established, the auction house can bid for the interested parties up to the lower estimated price of the object. In this case, the auction house is not obliged to execute the bid.
Online Bidding, Live Bidding
Bidders can place pre-bids and bid live on www.widderauktionen.com as well as on external auction platforms.
Insurance
Objects of art are insured against loss and damage until the end of the collection period, up to the amount of the highest bid. Thereafter, the art object is insured only up to a maximum of 6 months after invoicing, if there is no delay in payment.
Place of jurisdiction, choice of law
Place of jurisdiction and place of performance for all legal relationships is 1010 Vienna. Austrian substantive law shall apply.
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LOT 11:
ARTUR NIKODEM (Trient 1870 - 1940 Innsbruck)
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Start price:
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3,000
Estimated price :
€3,000 - €4,000
Buyer's Premium: 24%
More details
VAT: 20%
On the full lot's price and commission
Users from foreign countries may be exempted from tax payments, according to the relevant tax regulations
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ARTUR NIKODEM
(Trient 1870 - 1940 Innsbruck)
Istanbul, 1917
mixed media/paper, 29 x 30.8 cm
signed A. Nikodem, dated 1917
provenance: Wienerroither & Kohlbacher Vienna, international private collection
ESTIMATE °€ 3.000 - 4.000
STARTING PRICE °€ 3.000
Artur Nikodem studied painting in Munich with Franz Defregger and Friedrich August Christian Siegmund Kaulbach before going to Milan to Alcide Davide Campestrini and to Florence. During his military service in the navy, he experienced the Mediterranean as far as Egypt. In 1893 he moved to Merano, where he lived until 1908, when he returned to Innsbruck with his family. In 1920 Nikodem, who had worked in the state postal service, was retired early and from then on he could devote himself entirely to painting. In the 1920s he had successful exhibitions in Austria and abroad, but during the National Socialist era he was expelled from various artists' associations; many of his works were confiscated as degenerate art and in some cases destroyed. In the period of the Second World War until his death in 1940 Artur Nikodem practiced his artistic activity only in private and without exhibition opportunities. Artur Nikodem was also active as a photographer and left behind a large photographic oeuvre with oriental motifs from his time as a k. u. k. Telegraph officer from 1916 to 1918 as well as photographs of his companions. His painterly work is characterized by Tyrolean landscape depictions. Nikodem's work is an important part of the Tyrolean modernism of the interwar period, which is characterized by the confrontation with the new movements of the Munich scene and yet is attached to the tradition of Tyrolean landscape painting. However, the roots of his painting also lie in Viennese Art Nouveau and Secessionism. According to Gert Artmann, his work "experienced the full opening in the direction of Cézanne and Rodin through the short stay in Paris.[...] In the twenties he approached the Expressionism of an Albin Egger-Lienz in some phases." The here presented work from the time of the First World War, that was supposed to bring down the Ottoman Empire, shows a lady in a music bar in Istanbul or Constantinople.
PLEASE NOTE:
The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13%, for photographys 20%, is added to the sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.
