Timed Auction Deweer Gallery Estate
April 27 - June 1 at 10 AM
This auction comprises a selection more than 150 sculptures, installations, paintings, drawings, and prints from the collection Deweer Gallery Estate, with works by a.o. Stephan Balkenhol, Sergey Bratkov, Johannes Brus, Tony Cragg, Enzo Cucchi, Jan De Cock, Jan Fabre, Christoph Fink, Günther Förg, Melissa Gordon, Albert Hien, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Chiurai Kudzanai, Thomas Lange, Josef Felix Müller, Panamarenko, Bernhard Prinz, Klaus Simon, Koen Vanmechelen, Robin Winters, Norbert Witzgall, ...
The auction closes on Saturday June 1 from 10 AM (CET) onwards.
You can already register on our digital platform and place your bids.
Viewing days
The works are spread over two locations :
De Vuyst Gallery
Saturday April 27 – Tuesday May 7
10-12 AM and 2-6 PM
closed on Saturday, Sunday and on May 1
Wednesday May 8 – Wednesday May 15
10 AM - 7 PM, daily
Thursday and Friday May 16 and 17
10-12 AM and 2-6 PM
Closed on Saturday May 18
Tuesday May 21 – Friday May 31
10-12 AM and 2-6 PM
closed on Saturday and Sunday
Deweer Otegem
By appointment
De Vuyst Gallery
Kerkstraat 46
9160Lokeren
+32 (0)9 348 54 40
Deweer Gallery Estate
Tiegemstraat 6 A
8553 Otegem
+ 32 (0)56 644 893
What is a Timed Auction?
The auction is held online only, without auctioneer. The closing of lots is staggered with each subsequent lot closing one minute after the previous one. If a bid is placed within the final moments of bidding for a particular lot, the bidding for that lot will be extended for 3 minutes to allow for counterbids.
To participate in bidding via the digital platform, register on our website before the beginning of the auction. We cannot guarantee the approval of late registrations. Please note that the digital saleroom is optimized to run on Google Chrome or Firefox.
Consult the Timed Auction bidding guide for more information on how to bid.
Buyer’s premium and royalties
The sales costs (buyer’s premium) are at the expense of the buyer, as are the royalties, if any.
Buyer’s premium amount to 28% of the gavel price, VAT included, if VAT is applied onto the margin (art. 58, § 4 VAT code).
Royalties are applicable to artists from countries member of the European Union and countries outside the E.U. where according to the law royalties are applicable, and that up to and including 70 years after the year the artist died, for lots with a gavel price of € 2.000 or more.
The Royalties are calculated as follows:
- 4 % on the part of the gavel price up to € 50.000 included;
- 3 % on the part of the gavel price from € 50.000,01 up to € 200.000 included;
- 1 % on the part of the gavel price from € 200.000,01 up to € 350.000 included;
- 0,5 % on the part of the gavel price from € 350.000,01 up to € 500.000 included;
- 0,25 % on the part of the gavel price superior to € 500.000.
The total amount of the royalties cannot be more than € 12.500.
(Law of December 4th 2006 and R.A. of August 2th 2007)
The complete terms and conditions of sale regarding payment, condition of the lots, etc. can be consulted here
Collection of purchases
For the lots that are at De Vuyst Gallery in Lokeren
From Tuesday following the auction until Saturday from 10 AM to 12 PM and 2 PM to 6 PM.
Closed on Sundays and Mondays.
No purchases can be collected on the day of the auction.
For the lots that are at Deweer Gallery Estate, Otegem
By appointment only
Transport
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A selection of highlights
From April 27 on, all items will be visible in the online catalogue and bidding will be open.
Lot nr 64. Panamarenko - IJsvogel (2004)
PANAMARENKO
IJSVOGEL (2004)
Plexiglass, metal, steel wire, tape, nylon
approx. 260 x 900 x 400 cm
Est. €320,000 - 400,000
Because it is something more than a toy
Panamarenko creates constructions of a deceptive simplicity. His equipment may often lack more essential elements than they possess, but the few features they do possess are more than sufficient to create a feeling of reliability and efficiency. This applies even more to the graceful "IJsvogel". This feather-light aircraft made of transparent plexiglass has small flappers at both ends of the wings, indicated with a red cross. This fragile work may be too brittle to ever be released into the air, but Panamarenko attributes special properties to it. "This work is simply entertainment. No foolish artistic statements should be made about it. It is entertainment, but at the end it gains depth, because it tells me something, because it speaks. Because it is something more than a toy, because it is a has a kind of power, an energy. And if that is the case, then I exhibit it."
"Panamarenko Universum" M HKA, Antwerp 2014-2015, cat. p. 88
Lot nr 40. Tony Cragg - Fast particles (1995)
TONY CRAGG
FAST PARTICLES (1995)
Various materials, paraffin
280 x 168 x 280 cm
Est. € 95.000 - 120.000
The energy of a man engaged in a hand-to-hand struggle for the puck
A layer of wax, almost like a skin, covers the mix of recycled domestic and industrial materials that make up Fast Particles, 1994 ...
The dynamic images transmit all the force of athletes engaged in a hand-to-hand struggle for the puck or racing along the rink.
Website Castello di Rivoli - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Torino, Italy
Lot nr 65. Jan Fabre - Umbraculum (2001)
JAN FABRE
UMBRACULUM (2001)
37 objects: wire, bones, shield wings of jewel beetles on object, and 2 cd's
Est. € 400.000 - 600.000
A place where one can work and think, far away from the obligations of every day life
"Umbraculum, a Latin term meaning 'a place in the shade where one can work and think, far away from the obligations of everyday life' ... The bone sculptures depict monks, in the words of the artist 'spiritual travellers'. By analogy with the jewel beetle, this figure wears an external skeleton (exo-skeleton): a hard, impregnable armour instead of soft human skin, which offers maximal protection against possible wounds. These are bodies which give shape to a future portrayal of humanity ... The accessories - crutches, wheelchairs and walking frames - act as additional protheses, guarantees for the eternity of the spiritual bodies."
Barbara De Coninck, director of exhibitions at ANGELOS Quote on Instagram (angelos_janfabre)