Konrad Bernheimer

Photo by Barbara Hartmann, courtesy Bernheimer Fine Old Masters, Munich

Konrad Bernheimer

Sir Peter Paul Rubens Lucas Cranach the Elder Frans Hals Hendrick Terbrugghen Navigating a Shrinking Art Market Madrid Museum to Combine Condoms and Art Estimated as High as $41 Million, Rembrandt Going to Bid at Christie’s Caravaggio Going on View at Chicago’s Art Institute

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What was the sales’ highlight of the season for the gallery?

The Portrait of a Young Man by Peter Paul Rubens and the wonderful painting of the bagpipe player by Terbrugghen, which we sold together with Johnny Van Haeften and Otto Naumann to the National Gallery.

Were those on the higher end of the price scale?

I can tell you the asking price for the Rubens: €5.5 million [$7.2 million].

What was a great work that appeared this past year at auction or Maastricht that really caught your eye?

Again, it would have to be the Terbrugghen.

What’s a great example of a work of art in your gallery or that was presented at Maastricht last month that hasn’t sold?

We have Frans Hals’s Saint Mark, available for €5.8 million [$7.7 million] and Lucas Cranach the Elder’s remarkable David and Bathsheba, 1534, for €5.5 million [$7.2 million].

"Konrad Bernheimer" originally appeared in the June 2009 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's June 2009 Table of Contents.