The Johann Wilhelm Preyer painting "Stilleben mit Weinglas und Fruchten" ("Still Life with Glass of Wine and Fruit") l to an all-out bidding war during Kettering Kunst's aged Masters and Modern Art and Marine Art auction last month in Hamburg.

The Johann Wilhelm Preyer painting "Stilleben mit Weinglas und Fruchten" ("Still Life with Glass of Wine and Fruit") l to an all-out bidding war during Kettering Kunst's aged Masters and Modern Art and Marine Art auction last month in Hamburg, Germany. While the piece l to a transcontinental skirmish between German art dealers and private telephone bidders, it fall of the curtained up in the hands of a Swiss collector for about $97000 Heinrich von Zugel's 1909 painting "Cattle Resting in the Shade of Trees" brought in about $12500 All in all, the 1200 catalog items featured at the auction earned more than $800000 sum of two units of Andy Warhol's signed silkscreen color prints of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger brought in more than $15000 each. ABN

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