MUNICH.- 20 choice works from the 1910s to the 1980s will be included in the small but very fine Special Catalog with works of Modern Classic and Post War Art. The select works from an exquisite private collection will be called up in context of the auctions held on occasion of Ketterer Kunst's 60th anniversary in Munich on 6 and 7 June.

Proceeds will go to the benefit of a foundation that supports molecular-biological research at the American Mayo Clinic.

The array of notable artworks is led by Alexander Calder's standing mobile “Yellow Crinkly“. The artist's sensitive creations with their hovering forms and colors are among his most sought-after works on the international art market, accordingly, the work from 1963 will enter the race with an estimate of € 300,000-400,000. Calder's jewelry items, modernist design objects, were popular with celebrities such as Peggy Guggenheim. A unique brooch of silver and steel wire with ceramic fragments from around 1940 may find a new owner for a price starting with an estimate of € 60,000-80,000.

The “Merz-drawings“ are definitely among the most popular works by the Hanover native Kurt Schwitters. With these dadaist collages the introvert artist became an experimental enfant terrible with an inexhaustible artistic productivity. To Schwitters “Merz“ was not only the name of the style of his one-man art movement, but also an artistic revolution and recommencement. In his “Merz“ works he suspends the limits between art genres by integrating various materials and common, simple found items. The dadaist paper collage “Mz 386 Hopf (Merzzeichnung)“ from 1922, estimated at € 100,000-150,000, is from this important famous work complex.

Alexej von Jawlensky's expressive watercolor “Frauenkopf Femina“ was made around the same time, in 1923 to be more exact, and stands under the influence of the “Fauves“. It is part of a series of abstract heads the artist began in 1918. In these works mystical-spiritual human faces are illustrated with great mastery. The estimate is at € 60,000-80,000.

Next to Kasimir Malewitsch's pencil drawing “Sensations mélangées“ (estimate: € 40,000-60,000) and Oskar Schlemmer's watercolor “Zwiegespräch (Anklage)“ (estimate: € 35,000-50,000) further great works come from artists such as Giacomo Balla, Herbert Bayer, Willi Baumeister, Jeff Beer, Erwin Blumenfeld, August Macke, Joan Miró, Ljubov Sergeevna Popowa, Pablo Picasso, Hans Reichel and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.