Works from the collection of Kasper König - who died in August at the age of 80 - took in around $6.5 million at auction last week.
Among the four hundred or so works sold were pieces by artists including Richard Artschwager, Thomas Bayrle, William Copley, Nicole Eiseman, Katharina Fritsch, On Kawara, Paul McCarthy, Claes Oldenburg, Sigmar Polke, and Thomas Schütte. The top went to a work by Kawara, whose work May 7, 1967 fetched roughly $878,000. According to the auction house, Van Ham, this set a new record for On Kawara's date paintings.
Before his death, König donated around fifty works from his collection to Museum Ludwig, including pieces by Pawel Althamer, Maria Eichhorn, Isa Genzken, Dan Graham, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jenny Holzer, Richard Long and Jeremy Deller.
Above are some relevant (to this site) works from the auction.
