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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 6, 2024 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Evening Sale | 48 | $****** - ****** | Stadtbild |
paintings
53 x 43 cm (20.87 x 16.93 in)
Oil on canvas
Signed, dated, titled "Stadt", as well as inscribed and with a direction arrow on the reverse
Buchmann Galerie, Berlin. Private collection (acquired from the above - 2015, Christie"s, London). Private collection, Hesse (since 2015).
Gerhard Richter: Städte, Galerie René Block, Berlin 1969. Gerhard Richter, Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf 1970 (probably shown in an exhibition view, see Dietmar Elger, Gerhard Richter. Maler, Cologne 2002, ill. on p. 226 (in the back right, rotated by 180° due to the signature). Gerhard Richter - Städtebilder, Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich 1970.
Dietmar Elger, Gerhard Richter. Catalogue raisonné, vol. 1: 1962-1968 (no. 1-198), Ostfildern 2011, no. 178-1 (illustrated and identified "Present location unknown"). Gerhard Richter Werkübersicht / Catalogue raisonné 1962 - 1993, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, vol. III, Bonn 1993, p. 155, no. 178-1 (illustrated). - - Gerhard Richter, 36th Biennale (German Pavilion), Venice 1972, p. 40, cat. no. 178-1 (w. ill. p. 64). Gerhard Richter. Bilder/Paintings 1962-1985, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf 1986, p. 369 (illustrated on p. 75). Gerhard Richter, note in his work survey from 1968, quoted from: Gerhard Richter. Text 1961 bis 2007, Cologne 2008, p. 53. Called up: December 6, 2024 - ca. 18.34 h +/- 20 min.
Gerhard Richter
Stadtbild
1968.
Oil on canvas.
Signed, dated, titled "Stadt", as well as inscribed and with a direction arrow on the reverse. 53 x 43 cm (20.8 x 16.9 in). [JS].
• Richter"s "
Stadtbild
er" (Townscapes) are part of his acclaimed early black-and-white and recognized as key works in his abstract oeuvre.
• Radical fragmentation and synoptic form: In this last series within the "
Stadtbild
er", Richter takes his virtuoso blend of figuration and abstraction to the extreme.
• Painted the same year as the famous townscape "Domplatz. Mailand" (1968), Richter"s most expensive figurative painting to date.
• Published in the catalog for the 36th Venice Biennale in 1972, where Richter represented Germany with his black-and-white photo paintings.
• Works from this group can be found in important international collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Städel Museum, Frankfurt a. M
.
We are grateful to Dr. Dietmar Elger, Gerhard Richter Archive, Dresden, for his kind support in cataloging this lot.
