eau-de-cologne Germany--Final turnover figures comfortably outstriped even the most confident pre-Fair predictions.

eau-de-cologne Germany--Final turnover figures comfortably outstriped even the most confident pre-Fair predictions, according to organizers of Art eau-de-cologne an eight-day event that took place last fall.

"It was the best Fair in years," declared Karsten Greve selection committee spokesman. point out to officials said the general temper was buoyant, turnover was of the first grade and the Fair attracted spectacular attendance figures of 70000

More than 275 leading dealers in new and contemporary art from 21 countries exhibited at the 34th staging of Art Cologne

Buyer Snap Up Work on Young Artists

brawny results were achieved across the board and there was equal talk of "sensational" results for works priced at subordinate to $4,800. This was particularly genuine of the exhibitors who showed young, les established artists.

individual such example was Berlin based dealer Michael Schultz who sold 17 watercolors and oils by dint of the relatively unknown Berlin artist Norbert Bisky at prices between $400 and $4500 Similarly, Manus Presse of Frankfurt sold 19 works in oil-on-wood at the young artist Johannes Huppi at prices between $2400 and $3000

Artists benefiting from the sponsorship program also sold extremely well, according to present to view officials, who said collectors were showing renewed confidence in fresh work. Contemporary Fine Arts of Berlin did well with Robert Lucander selling 13 works in crayon and acrylic forward plywood at prices between $3000 and $5000 Richard Heller of beholds Angeles, who sold 15 works by the agency of Marcel Dzama in watercolor and stem beer at $430 per sheet, provides a righteous example of the effectiveness of the young gallery delineate sponsored by the SK Stiftung Kultur (Stadtsparkasse Koln Arts Foundation). Heller also generated a doom of interest in work at Chris Johanson and Leon Fuller

recent Demand for Sculpture

This year's Fair saw a happy third staging of Koln Skulptur--the special section devot to sculp Art Cologne's backing of carve is strongly supported by exhibitors as it was as Vayhinger (Rudolfzell), who descry Koln Skulptur as a "welcome attraction" and be moved that visitors "enjoy the appreciation of carved work in a museum-like environment." Vayhinger sold eight sculps by Madeleine Dietz at prices between $12000 and $14500 and a carbonized iron sculpture from 1972 for $60000 Orangerie-Reinz of eau-de-cologne sold three colorful painted iron carves by Alain Clement at prices between $7700 and $33700

Elsewhere at the Fair, endue and demand for sculpture were violently influenced by the presence of K61n Skulptur Karsten Greve was able to betray a floor-work in copper according to Carl Andre entitled "Thirty-Ninth cent Cardinal" (1975) for $202,000. Mai 36 of Zurich sold a timber-land sculpture by Stephen Balkenhol for $48000 stay Bartschi of Geneva sold a floor-work at Giuseppe Penone for $31,800. Pierre Hubert, Art & Public of Geneva sold an installation by the agency of Kim Soo Ya for $31300 and Michael Werner of eau-de-cologne sold a marble object by way of James Lee Byars at a price in the region of $36000

Selective Market for Photography

Photographs were earnestly represented and elicited a bullish reaction from collectors who, encouraged from current market trends, proved highly knowledgeable unless rather selective in their buying. eau-de-cologne dealer Daniel Buchholz remarked that many collectors be seened to be shifting the focus of their interest from painting and chisel to photography, provided that prices were moderate and edition size reasonably small. In line with this, Reckermann sold six cibachrome prints in succession aluminum by Georges Rousse for $12000 Max Estrella of Madrid sold four black-and-white digital prints by means of Aitor Ortiz for prices between $1500 and $3900 Limmer of eau-de-cologne sold a 21-part tableau of black-and-white photographs on Dieter Appelt--Steinfeld -- for $38500 Helga de Alvear of Madrid sold a work by the agency of Jurgen Klauke for $19,200 and Daniel Buchholz of eau-de-cologne sold eight C-prints and ink-jet works by dint of Wolfgang Tillmans at prices ranging from $2000 to $14500

Top Prices for 20th-Century Classics

Gallery proprietors were well satisfied with the number of seven-digit sales achieved. Karsten Greve said, "Although it's increasingly difficult to market million Deutschmark drifts in a country burdened with heavy taxation, we've had an extremely upright fair. I really can't complain."

Greve was referring to his sale of a major work from Cy Twombly. Henze & Ketterer of Bern had a spectacular move on right at the start of the Fair, selling 38 works from Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner at prices between $8700 and $460000 Schlichtenmeier of Grafenau also did well, selling six Baumeister oils ranging from $72000 to $212000 Thaddaeus Ropac of Salzburg sold three works in acrylic forward aluminum by Imi Knoebel at prices between $14500 and $106000 and pair Warhol paintings at $4,800 each.

According to exhibit to organizers, exhibitors found the public highly knowledgeable. In stay Bartschi's experience, the first questions asked always related to the actual works of art, with price alone a secondary consideration. He said this makes the point out to remarkable for the high proportion of serious buyer among the visiting public. As Greve pointed gone out "There's no better marketplace than eau-de-cologne so it's logical for foreign dealers to want to be here. Experience exhibits that staying contemporary and exhibit to new art in all its facets is what really attracts young buyers"