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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 8, 2018 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Classics of the 20th Century I | 809 | $****** - ****** | Portrait Schniewind | |||
Feb 13, 2014 | Christie's | London | Post War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 18 | $****** - ****** | Portrait Schniewind |
paintings
120 x 88 cm (47.24 x 34.65 in)
Oil on canvas
Verso signed, dated, titled and inscribed
Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf.
Fänn and Willy Schniewind, Neviges/Düsseldorf (acquired directly from the artist).
Private collection USA (inherited from aforementioned).
Neue Realisten: Konrad Lueg, Sigmar Polke, Gerd Richter, Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, November 20, 1964 - December 1964.
J. Harten, K.H. Hering, D. Honisch, et al (editor), Gerhard Richter: Bilder 1962-1985, Ex. cat., Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1986, p. 359.
D. Elger (editor), Gerhard Richter: A Life in Painting, Cologne 2002, p. 74.
D. Elger, M. Roth, E.M. Stange (editor), Gerhard Richter. Porträt Dr. Knobloch 1964, Berlin 2009, illu. p. 20.
"The collector Willy Schniewind was portrayed by Richter on three occasions. This work here clearly is the most impressive motif."
Dietmar Elger, Director of the Gerhard Richter Archive Dresden
"I think a painter doesn't need to see nor know the model, nothing of its >soul<, nature or character, must find expression. [..] Painting a portrait on basis of a photo is also much better, because, well, you never paint a specific person, but just a picture [..]"
Gerhard Richter, 1966 quote from: Dietmar Elger, Gerhard Richter, Maler, Cologne 2018, p. 93.
Portrait Schniewind. 1965.
Oil on canvas.
Catalog raisonné of paintings 42-1. Elger 42-1. Verso signed, dated, titled and inscribed. 120 x 88 cm (47.2 x 34.6 in).
This portrait of the well-known sports officer and art collector Willy Schniewind was made at the suggestion of the acknowledged Düsseldorf gallery owner Alfred Schmela, who showed Gerhard Richter's first solo show at his premises on Hunsrückenstraße 16-18 from September 9 to 30,1964.
Richter's black and white photo pictures from the 1960s, as well as his large-size "Abstract Pictures", are the internationally most sought-after works by the German star painter. The sale of this work here is likely to be one of the last opportunities to buy a work from this significant early portrait series of the artist.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf.
Fänn and Willy Schniewind, Neviges/Düsseldorf (acquired directly from the artist).
Private collection USA (inherited from aforementioned).
EXHIBITION: Neue Realisten: Konrad Lueg, Sigmar Polke, Gerd Richter, Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, November 20, 1964 - December 1964.
LITERATURE: J. Harten, K.H. Hering, D. Honisch, et al (editor), Gerhard Richter: Bilder 1962-1985, Ex. cat., Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1986, p. 359.
D. Elger (editor), Gerhard Richter: A Life in Painting, Cologne 2002, p. 74.
D. Elger, M. Roth, E.M. Stange (editor), Gerhard Richter. Porträt Dr. Knobloch 1964, Berlin 2009, illu. p. 20.
"The collector Willy Schniewind was portrayed by Richter on three occasions. This work here clearly is the most impressive motif."
Dietmar Elger, Director of the Gerhard Richter Archive Dresden
"I think a painter doesn't need to see nor know the model, nothing of its >soul
