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The section is numbered n°15, has sixteen steps, stands 12ft (3.6m) tall and weighs 750kg (estimate: €40,000-60,000).

In 1980 the company in charge of the Tower assessed its overall condition as it approached its centenary, with a view to reducing the overall weight and bringing the Tower into line with modern security standards. The original staircase, linking the second and third decks, was replaced by a lighter, wider and less dangerous one, and hydraulic lifts were installed. The original staircase was divided into 24 segments, varying in length from 7-30 feet (2.10m-9m). One was installed on the first deck of the Tower; three were given to French museums (the Musée de la Villette and future Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and the Iron Museum in Nancy); and the remaining twenty were numbered and sold at auction on the first deck of the Tower on 1st December 1983.

Collectors from around the world competed for the 20 lots. One section of staircase headed to Japan, bought for the garden of the Yoshii Foundation in Yamanashi near Tokyo; others sold to Canada, Switzerland the United States, were one section was erected at Disneyland, and another near the Statue of Liberty, with its inner framework designed by Eiffel.

Other pictures revealing “the inner workings of the world” by Emil Schumacher are his 1960 “Abora I” (estimate: € 70 000-90 000) and “Taras Bulba” (1957; estimate: € 40 000-60 000) as well as “Kleines rotes Bild” [“Little Red Picture”] (estimate: € 25 000-35 000), dating from 1961. What all these Schumachers have in common is that they inspire free association and interpretation in a visual thought process due not least to the richly varied refraction of light on the picture surfaces.
Hans Hartungs acrylic on canvas “T 1969-H10” is sure to keep the auction room on tenterhooks. Measuring 50 x 73.5 cm, it was painted in 1969 and is dedicated to Antonio Corpora. The Hartung is to enter the lists carrying an estimate of € 25 000-35 000.

The 1970 Cy Twombly colour offset lithograph “Roman Notes III” and Zoran Music’s “Automne en Dalmatie” [“Autumn in Dalmatia”; 1958] are each estimated at € 15 000-20 000.

Other important works in this stellar special auction are by Francis Bott, Carl Buchheister, Sam Francis, Otto Greis, Heinz Kreutz, Serge Poliakoff and Pierre Soulages.

Auction venue: Ketterer Kunst, New House for Art, Joseph-Wild-Strasse 18, 81829 Munich
Auction begins: 4 December, 5.30 pm

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Covering some 3500 square meters and three floors, the new house for art in the immediate vicinity of Neue Messe Munich comprises a state-of-the-art auction room, a generous amount of exhibition space, an art lounge with a readers’ corner, a coffee bar with cosmopolitan ambience and what is probably the world’s biggest art show window at 8 metres high by 23 metres wide.

“I am delighted that this dream has now come true and we have so much room for art with over 1000 square meters exhibition space. With all this and to top it off with a wide range of parking possibilities, we are responding to wishes expressed by our clientele. So art objects can now be brought by car directly into the new House,” thus Robert Ketterer, builder of the new house and owner of Ketterer Kunst.

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This early secular history of the world was printed at a time when the Western world’s idea of itself was rapidly expanding. Christopher Columbus had sailed for the Americas only a year before. The printing press was a relatively new invention, and the educated population of Europe was just beginning to experience the power of the printed word and what access to printed materials would mean. The world was no longer flat and the population of Europe gaining in literacy. This book is one of the earliest and most ambitious printed histories of civilization to that time, and it reflects the intellectual quickening in Europe.

he edition, with its classic gothic type, features more than 1,800 woodcut illustrations by Michael Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, and their workshop, which purportedly included the young Albrecht Dürer. Included are Biblical images and identified views of famous cities, as well as a series of charts illustrating the Ptolemaic geocentric view of the universe. It was one of the first secular histories of the world ever printed. The Nuremberg Chronicle is generally considered one of the most important illustrated books of the incunable period.

The text is a year-by-year account of notable events in world history from the Creation up to the year of publication, including the invention of printing at Mainz, the exploration of the Atlantic and of Africa. It includes references to the game of chess and to medical curiosities, including what is believed to be the first depiction of Siamese twins. It carries an estimate of $75,000 - $100,000.

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Horse breeders could purchase thoroughbreds for their stables in Pardubice for the first time in 30 years in the auction that was held two days before the Grand Pardubice steeplechase.

“I firmly believe that the auction will help increase the prestige of the Pardubice horse racing stadium regardless of how many horses were sold. It is necessary to realise that this is the first auction after many, many years,” sais, Jiri Kunat, director of the Racing Society, a co-organisers of the auction.

According to Kunat, auctions in Pardubice could be held twice a year, in
spring and autumn.

The silver cup, which dates backs to around 2,000 BCE and bears cuneiform inscriptions, went under hammer in Munich on June 22, 2007 for over $80,000.

?The German embassy notified the Iranian government about the auction and Iran requested the suspension of the sale,? said Omid Qanami, director of the Legal Department of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICHTO).

Archeological studies found that the Elamite cup belonged to Iran and the documents were sent to a court in Munich,? he added.

Owners of Mahboubian Gallery in London have claimed that the relic is part of their collection and had been in the possession of their family since before 1927 in France,? Qanami said.

The suspension of the sale will be effective until more documents proving the Iranian origin of the silver cup are provided.

The words were scribbled in a school notebook which was one of 95 lots for auction at a Sotheby’s Paris auction held 30 years after Brel’s death on October 9, 1978.

Brel’s widow and three daughters, who hold full rights to his work, opposed the sale and had offered to buy up the entire collection for 175,000 euros.

“This is a national heritage. It shouldn’t be sold,” said Brel’s widow Therese on France Info radio. “It’s a shame and a bit of a disgrace.”