Auction 520 Part 2
The Kasper König Collection - His Private Choice
By VAN HAM Kunstauktionen GmbH Co. KG
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Oct 2, 2024
Hitzelerstr. 2, 50968 Köln, Germany
Terms of sale
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Day Sale: Wednesday, 2 October 2024
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LOT 145:
Seydou Keita
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Sold for: €6,500
Price including buyer’s premium:
€
8,710
Start price:
€
2,400
Estimated price :
€3,000 - €5,000
Buyer's Premium: 32%
VAT: 19%
On commission only
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Seydou Keita: Mixed lot of 7 photographs
KEITA, SEYDOU
1923 Bamako/Französisch-Sudan - 2001 Paris
Title: Mixed lot of 7 photographs.
Date: 1951-59/1999.
Technique: Each: gelatin silver print.
Mounting: Mounted on card.
Depiction Size: 18 x 13cm.
Notation: . Signed, dated and inscribed (verso).
Frame: Framed. Not examined out of the frame.
The photographs generally bear two dates on the verso, one from the 1950s (19551-59) and one from 1999. The photographs are from the 1950s, the prints from 1999.
Provenance:
- Kasper König Collection, Berlin (directly from the artist)
- Seydou opened his photo studio in Mali at the end of the 1940s
- The men in the photographs mostly wear Western clothing and like to be portrayed with various objects such as watches and pens
- The women continue to wear traditional clothing and a lot of jewellery, but it is not until the end of the 1960s that they also have themselves photographed in Western clothes
Estimated shipping costs for this lot:
Germany: 43,70 Euro plus 8,30 Euro VAT
EU: 58,82 Euro plus 11,18 Euro VAT
Worldwide: 117,65 Euro plus 22,35 Euro VAT
additional shipping insurance
Explanations to the Catalogue
Seydou Keita
Post-War Art
Photographs
1950s
Framed. Not examined out of the frame
Portrait
Photography
Gelatin silver print
