Klaus Richter
Smell Your Fingers
Found at
Sothebys,
New York
Dear Keith: Works from the Personal Collection of Keith Haring, Lot 1137
1. Oct - 1. Oct 2020
Dear Keith: Works from the Personal Collection of Keith Haring, Lot 1137
1. Oct - 1. Oct 2020
Estimate: 300 - 500 USD
Price realised: 8.190 USD
Price realised: 8.190 USD
Description
THIS LOT IS BEING OFFERED AT NO RESERVE
Dear Keith: Works from the Personal Collection of Keith Haring
KLAUS RICHTER
b. 1955
SMELL YOUR FINGERS
signed and dated April 89 on the overlap
acrylic on canvas
16 by 16 in. (40.6 by 40.6 cm.)
Estate of Keith Haring, New York (gift of the artist in 1989) | The Keith Haring Foundation (by bequest from the above in 1990)
Dear Keith: Works from the Personal Collection of Keith Haring
KLAUS RICHTER
b. 1955
SMELL YOUR FINGERS
signed and dated April 89 on the overlap
acrylic on canvas
16 by 16 in. (40.6 by 40.6 cm.)
Estate of Keith Haring, New York (gift of the artist in 1989) | The Keith Haring Foundation (by bequest from the above in 1990)
A top price for Klaus Richter
When the work Smell Your Fingers by Klaus Richter was auctioned at Sothebys in New York in October 2020, the result exceeded expectations many times over. The upper estimate was set at a - in retrospect quite modest - USD 500.00 but the actual price achieved was more than 16 times as high at USD 8,190.00 (€ 7,031.85). This high result makes Smell Your Fingers the most expensive artwork by Klaus Richter that we have observed at auctions so far.
Ein Spitzenpreis für Klaus Richter
Als die Arbeit Smell Your Fingers von Klaus Richter im Oktober 2020 bei Sothebys in New York versteigert wurde, übertraf das Ergebnis die Erwartungen um ein Vielfaches. Der obere Schätzpreis war mit – rückwirkend betrachtet recht bescheidenen – USD 500,00 angesetzt, der tatsächlich erzielte Preis hingegen war mit USD 8.190,00 (€ 7.031,85) mehr als 16-mal so hoch. Dieses hohe Ergebnis macht Smell Your Fingers zu dem teuersten Kunstwerk von Klaus Richter, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.
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