Lot 171 · KARL, Karl Lagerfeld’s Estate III, Day Sale
Two drawings for The Emperor’s New Clothes by Andersen
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- Estimate
- €1,000–€2,000 hammer ≈ $1,057–$2,114
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Sotheby's — KARL, Karl Lagerfeld’s Estate III, Day Sale, Cologne · 5 May 2022
- Record ID
- TB-2026-5021857
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 6 Sep 2026 · source ↗
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Karl Lagerfeld, Two drawings for The Emperor’s New Clothes by Andersen. Sotheby's, 5 May 2022, lot 171. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-5021857.
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Karl Lagerfeld, Two drawings for The Emperor’s New Clothes by Andersen. Sotheby's, 5 May 2022, lot 171. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-5021857.
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|---|---|---|---|
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The closest sold results by price, artist, and medium — the appraiser's comp set, generated from the corpus. All figures converted to USD at current reference rates.