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Lot 781: INDONESIAN GODS.

Est: €150 EUR - €250 EURSold:
Arenberg AuctionsBrussels, BelgiumOctober 08, 2021

Item Overview

Description

Drawing, Indian ink and watercolour, 33,7 x 43 cm, drawing paper, unsigned (several tears, one large vertical folding crease with partial tear). - An impressive drawing with godlike creatures engaged in a fight. The scene possibly represents the Hindu God Bhima fighting the hundred Kauova brothers, during the Mahabharata War. He may be holding his son Sarvaga. The sheet is attributed on the verso to the school of Walter Spies, who was a Russian-born German primitivist painter, composer, musicologist, and curator. In 1923 he moved to Java, Indonesia. He lived in Yogyakarta and then in Ubud, Bali from 1927 on. He is often credited with attracting the attention of Western cultural figures to Balinese art in the 1930s. Spies was familiar with every phase of Balinese life and was the constant source of information to every archaeologist, anthropologist, musician or artist who went to Bali.

Artist or Maker

Date

1933

Payment & Shipping

Accepted forms of payment: Wire Transfer

Shipping

Extra costs for packaging, payment, insurance and/or mailing are at the buyer's expense. Packing and handling is at the entire risk of the buyer. The auctioneer is not responsible for any accidents or faults or omissions by the postal or carrier services.

Auction Details

Day 2 - Drawings, engravings, posters, prints, photography, rare books

by
Arenberg Auctions
October 08, 2021, 01:00 PM CET

Wolstraat 19/2, Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, 1000, BE

Terms

Buyer's Premium

25.0%

Bidding Increments

From:To:Increment:
€0€49€5
€50€199€10
€200€399€20
€400€999€50
€1,000€1,999€100
€2,000€3,999€200
€4,000€9,999€500
€10,000€19,999€1,000
€20,000€69,999€2,000
€70,000+€5,000

Auction - Terms of sale

The purchaser shall pay, strictly cash, the hammer price, in €, together with a premium of 25 %, eventually plus the resale tax, if applicable: 4 % for hammer prices from € 2000 on, only for original art and if the author died less than 70 years ago.
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Shipping Terms

Extra costs for packaging, payment, insurance and/or mailing are at the buyer's expense. Packing and handling is at the entire risk of the buyer. The auctioneer is not responsible for any accidents or faults or omissions by the postal or carrier services.