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118th Auction
30. January, 2014
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Thu, 30th of January from 11:00 am
Auction Report for the 118th Auction from January 30 to February 2, 2014 at Meerbusch Auction House Rosthal
It was an auction that resembled a marathon. Over 5,000 items were auctioned over four days! Success was evident after the first day of the auction, as every single item offered was sold. This trend continued throughout the subsequent days – regardless of whether it was paintings, graphics, porcelain, silver, or furniture – everything was sold. Even Historia Managing Director Christian Gründel was surprised by such a good sales rate: "We are glad and relieved that the months of preparation have paid off. An auction of this kind always carries a risk, but it seems we did everything right."
The auction featured nearly 4,000 paintings and graphics as well as porcelain, silver and jewelry items, various objects, furniture, and carpets. Many of the items, often offered without a reserve price, fetched impressive prices. Especially works by Düsseldorf painters sold for well above the average market price.
A scene by the Düsseldorf artist De Prés, painted in oil on canvas and depicting a monk and a musketeer tasting wine in a cellar, was offered without a reserve price and was bid up to €1,200 after a bidding war. International artists also achieved remarkable prices, such as a small watercolor by Russian painter A. Bralloff, showing father and son in a boat. Offered speculatively without a reserve price, it fetched a hammer price of €13,000.
On the initiative of Oliver Rosthal, the auction house Historia auctioned the entire estate of the Büderich traditional house Rosthal from January 30 to February 2, 2014. All inventory items were offered for auction on-site in this large final auction.
The house bid farewell after more than 40 years of auction activities, as the founder and auctioneer of Meerbusch Auction House Karl-Heinrich Rosthal passed away in 2012 due to illness. Since then, the house had stood empty. According to Oliver Rosthal, the late auctioneer’s son, the building is now to be converted into a residential building.
