© Piguet Hôtel des Ventes — view on Piguet Hôtel des Ventes website ↗Was Kleines, 1979
Drawing (crayon) · Paper
Piguet Hôtel des Ventes · Sep 23, 2026CHF 1,100 ≈ $1,337 ≈ £1,007 ≈ €1,171Sign up free to see price
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Auction result
Der Knoten
Horst Janssen (German, 1929–1995) · 1978
CHF 8,000 hammer
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- Medium
- Sculpture · Sculpture all sculpture results →As published: “Pencil and watercolour, silver bronze”
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed by the artist at lower left
- Category
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- 29 x 45 cm
- Auction house
- Kornfeld
- Sale
- Auction 278: Live Auction - Part 1 (278)
- Date
- June 15, 2023
- Location
- Bern, Switzerland
- Lot
- 645
- Estimate
- CHF 6,000 – — (≈ $6,650) (≈ £5,259) (≈ €6,147)
- Source
- Auction house kornfeld.ch ↗Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
Provenance (1)
- Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg; private collection Switzerland
As published by Kornfeld.
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