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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 16, 2018 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 37 | $****** - ****** | Excellent | ABSTRAKTES BILD |
paintings
225.7 x 200 cm (88.86 x 78.74 in)
oil on canvas
signed, dated 1977 and numbered 420 on the reverse
The artist
Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf
Private Collection, Cologne
Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York (acquired from the above circa 1988)
Private Collection, England (acquired from the above in 1989)
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 2000
New York, Sperone Westwater Fischer Gallery, Gerhard Richter: New Paintings, January - February 1978
Eindhoven, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum; and London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Gerhard Richter: Abstract Paintings, October 1978 - April 1979, p. 29, illustrated in color
Sydney, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, European Dialogue: The Third Biennale of Sydney, April - May 1979, p. 12, illustrated (in installation) and p. 60 (text)
Düsseldorf, Stadtisches Kunsthalle; Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie; Bern, Kunsthalle Bern; and Vienna, Museum moderner Kunst, Gerhard Richter: Bilder 1962-1985, January - September 1986, p. 205, no. 420, illustrated
Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art, November 2006 - May 2007, p. 200, illustrated in color
London, Tate Modern; and Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Gerhard Richter: Panorama, October 2011 - September 2012, p. 87 (text) and p. 140, illustrated in color
Jürgen Hohmeyer, Einfach ein Bild, in DER SPIEGEL, January 4, 1986, p. 165, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (and travelling), Gerhard Richter. Werkübersicht / Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1993, Vol. III, 1993, p. 96, no. 420, illustrated in color
Gerhard Richter. Rot/Gelb/Blau. Die Gemälde für BMW, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich, 2007, p. 99, illustrated in color
Mark Godfrey, "Blurring Boundaries," in Apollo, October 2011, p. 54, illustrated in color
Dietmar Elger, Gerhard Richter: Catalogue Raisonné 1976-1987, Volume 3, Ostfildern, 2013, p. 97, no. 420, illustrated in color
signed, dated 1977 and numbered 420 on the reverse
oil on canvas
88 7/8 by 78 3/4 in. 225.7 by 200 cm.
