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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 18, 2023 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Evening Auction | 112 | $****** - ****** | 4096 Farben |
paintings
254 x 254 cm (100 x 100 in)
lacquer on canvas
signed, titled, dated 1974 and numbered 359 (on the reverse)
Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich
Private Collection, New York
Galerie Wilkens-Jacobs, Cologne
Jerry and Emily Spiegel, New York (acquired from the above)
Christie's, New York, 11 May 2004, lot 34 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Cologne, Galerie Wilkens-Jacobs, Gerhard Richter: Farbfelder , October 1984
Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Gerhard Richter : Paintings , April 1988 - May 1989, pl. 37, p. 77, illustrated in color and p. 92
Des Moines Art Center, Shifting Visions: O'Keeffe - Guston - Richter , October 1998 - January 1999, p. 58, illustrated in color
Düsseldorf, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen and Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Gerhard Richter , February - May 2005, no. 359, p. 161, illustrated in color
Japan, Kanazawa, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art and Japan, Sakura-shi, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Gerhard Richter: Painting as Mirror , September 2005 - January 2006, no. 359, p. 45, illustrated in color (in installation) and p. 168
Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Gerhard Richter - Zufall, Das Kölner Domfenster Und 4900 Farben, August 2007 - January 2008, p. 59, illustrated in color and pp. 77, 128
New York, The Museum of Modern Art and Tate Liverpool, Color Chart: Reinventing Color from 1950 to Today , March 2008 - September 2009 (traveled to Liverpool only)
London, Tate Modern; Berlin, Neue und Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; and Paris, Centre National d'art et de Culture Georges-Pompidou, Gerhard Richter: Panorama , October 2011 - September 2012, pp. 87, 203, 251, 297 and p. 117, illustrated in color (London); illustrated in color (on the cover), pp. 87, 203, 252, 297 and p. 117, illustrated in color (Berlin); pp. 87, 203, 252, 297 and pp. 117, 161, illustrated in color (Paris) (traveled to London and Berlin only)
Turin, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Colori: L'emozione dei COLORI nell'arte, March - July 2017, p. 183, illustrated in color
Wolfgang Max Faust and Gerd de Vries, "Gerhard Richter," Hunger nach Bildern , Cologne, 1982, no. 10, illustrated in color
Peter M. Bode, "Immer anders, immer er selbst," Das Kunstmagazin , May 1983, pp. 52-53, illustrated in color
Ulrich Loock and Denys Zacharopoulos, Gerhard Richter , Munich, 1985, p. 67, illustrated in color
Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen, “Gerhard Richter,” Flash Art , January 1985, p. 49
Jürgen Harten, ed., Gerhard Richter: Paintings 1962-1985, Cologne, 1986, no. 359, pp. 38, 385, illustrated in color, p. 180
Exh. Cat., New York, Marian Goodman Gallery, Gerhard Richter: Paintings , 1987, pp. 5-6
Exh. Cat., Hamburg, Galerie Vera Munro, Reihung. Ordnung muß sein, aber ist Sein Ordnung? , 1990, n.p.
Michael Hübl, “Gerhard Richter,” Holbein Art Forum , 1990/1991, no. 20, p. 72, illustrated in color
Saint Louis Art Museum, Summer Bulletin, Gerhard Richter, Summer 1992, p. 16, illustrated
Angelika Thill, et. al., Gerhard Richter Catalogue Raisonné: 1962 - 1993, Vol. III, Ostfildern-Ruit, 1993, no. 359, p. 166, illustrated in color
Briony Fer, On Abstract Art , New Haven, 1997, p. 160
Exh. Cat., Italy, Prato, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Gerhard Richter , 1999, pp. 15, 28
Exh. Cat., Dallas Museum of Art, Gerhard Richter in Dallas Collections, 2000, p. 4
Dietmar Elger , Gerhard Richter: Maler , Cologne, 2002, pp. 230-231, 268
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 8 May 2004, p. 47, illustrated in color
Spike , October 2004, p. 86, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Albertinum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and Galerie Neue Meister, Gerhard Richter, August 2004 - January 2005, p. 98, illustrated in color (on the cover) (detail) and pp. 25, 68
Exh. Cat., Dresden, Galerie Neue Meister Albertinum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Opening Gerhard Richter Rooms, March - November 2005, no. 359, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Burgdorf, Museum Franz Gertsch, Gerhard Richter: Without Color , 2005, pp. 90-91, illustrated in color
Klaus Honnef, “Er ist Immer Schon Da,” Die Welt, 15 February 2005, p. 27, illustrated
Reinhard Ermen, “Aufnehmen, Entwickeln Vergößern! Gerhard Richter,” Kunstforum International , No. 175, April/May 2005, p. 284, illustrated in color
Helmut Friedel, Gerhard Richter: Atlas , Cologne, 2006, p. 14
N.N., “Altersloses Genie,” DER SPIEGEL , 5 February 2007, p. 158, illustrated in color
Uta and Robert Winterhager, “Licht und Farben,” Die Bauwell , 1 October 2007, p. 3
Joseph Marioni, “Nur ein weltliches Fest,” Kölner Stadt - Anzeiger , 30 December 2007, p. 31, illustrated in color (detail)
Arbeitsheft, Navi Mathematik 5, Troisdorf, 2008, p. 63, illustrated in color
Carla Schulz-Hoffmann, “Was verbindet den Tetschener Altar, die Brooklyn Crucifixion und das Südquerhausfenster des Kölner Doms?,” Denken in Bildern: 31 Positionen zu Kunst, Museum und Wissenschaft, Berlin, 2008, pp. 201-202, illustrated in color
Dietmar Elger and Hans Ulrich Obrist, eds., Gerhard Richter: Text , Cologne, 2008, pp. 526-527
Angelika Kindermann, "Ein bisschen überwältigt," Das Kunstmagazin , January 2008, p. 106, illustrated in color
Mischa Kuball, “Pulsschlag des Lichts,” Kölner Stadt - Anzeiger , 3 January 2008, p. 23, illustrated in color
Alex Stock, “Im Glanz respektvoll,” Kölner Stadt - Anzeiger , 17 January 2008, p. 30, illustrated
Friedhelm Mennekes, “Der Dom verträgt den Fremdkörper,” Kölner Stadt - Anzeiger , 29 January 2008, p. 21
Alexander Smoltczyk, “Gottes heiliger Narr,” DER SPIEGEL , 5 May 2008, p. 84, illustrated in color
Martin Gayford, “Behind the Pictures,” Telegraph Magazine , 20 September 2008, p. 59
Exh. Cat., London, Serpentine Gallery, Gerhard Richter: 4900 Colours, 2008, pp. 121, 125
Exh. Cat., Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Gerhard Richter: Abstract Paintings , 2008, p. 136
Julia Friedrich, Grau ohne Grund: Gerhard Richters Monochromien als Herausforderung der künstlerischen Avantgarde , Cologne , 2009, p. 154
Dietmar Elger and Hans Ulrich Obrist, eds., Gerhard Richter Writings: 1961-2007 , Cologne, 2009, pp. 517-518
Julia Friedrich, Grau ohne Grund: Gerhard Richters Monochromien als Herausforderung der künstlerischen Avantgarde , Cologne, 2009, p. 154
Helmut Heinze, Das Kölner Domfenster im Werk des Malers Gerhard Richter , Leipzig, 2009, p. 27, illustrated in color
Dietmar Elger, Gerhard Richter , Paris, 2010, p. 175, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Germany, Pulsnitz, Galerie im Ernst-Rietschel-Haus, Gerhard Richter: Survey , 2010, p. 18
Barbara Glasner and Petra Schmidt, eds ., Chroma: Design, Architecture & Art in Color, Basel/Boston/Berlin, 2010, pp. 298-299, illustrated in color
Christin Klaus, Lux et color: Gerhard Richters Kölner Domfenster im Kontext zeitge nössischer sakraler Glasfenster , Marburg, 2011, pp. 35, 63-64, 78
Tate Modern, Gerhard Richter: Panorama , 2011, 7:03, illustrated in color (video) (online)
Emanuele Garbin , Il bordo del mondo: La forma dello sguardo nella pittura di Gerhard Richter , Venice, 2011, p. 169, illustrated in color
Rogier Ormeling, “Gerhard Richter: En het onvatbare,” Tableau Fine Arts Magazine , August/September 2011, p. 22, illustrated in color
Stefano Castelli, "Gerhard Richter, Cinico e Liberale," Arte , October 2011, p. 98, illustrated in color
Adrian Searle, "Tenderness and Terror,” The Guardian, 4 October 2011, p. 20, illustrated in color
Alexandra Wach, “Auffrischungskur für die Malereireflexio,” Die Welt , 15 October 2011, p. 28
Nicholas Serota, “I Have Nothing to Say and I'm Saying It,” Artco , no. 231, December 2011, p. 119, illustrated in color
Neue und Alte Nationalgalerie, Gerhard Richter: Panorama, 2012 , 15:28 , illustrated in color (video) (online)
Julia Franck, “Rede für Gerhard Richter,” Gerhard Richter Archiv , Dresden, 2012, p. 13
Exh. Cat., Germany, Ludwigshafen, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Punkt. Systeme: Vom Pointillismus zum Pixel, 2012, p. 141
Hubertus Butin, "Anmerkungen zu Gerhard Richters Kölner Domfenster," Colonia Romanica: Jahrbuch des Fördervereins Romanische Kirchen Köln , vol. XXVII, 2012, pp. 70-71, illustrated in color
Martin Papenbrock and Norbert Schneider, eds ., Kunst und Politik. Jahrbuch der Guernica Gesellschaft , Cologne, 2012, vol. 14, p. 44
Susanna Partsch, Wer hat Angst vor Rot, Blau, Gelb? , Munich, 2012, p. 159, illustrated in color
Udo Kittelmann, "Nur das Werk zählt!," Spk magazin , No. 1, 2012, p. 9, illustrated in color (detail)
Nicola Kuhn, "Was nur ein Bild vermag," Der Tagesspiegel, 8 February 2012, p. 19, illustrated in color
Anja Lösel, "Der Handwerker," Stern , 9 February 2012, pp. 122-123, illustrated in color
Gregor Quack, "Ein großes Fenster zur Richter Welt," Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntags Zeitung , 12 February 2012, p. 26, illustrated in color
Electronic Beats, Spring 2012, pp. 44-45, illustrated in color (detail)
Martin Gayford, “Through a Camera, Darkly,” MIT Technology Review , March/April 2012, pp. 74-75
Luk Lambrecht, "Gerhard Richter: Panorama à la Nationalgalerie de Berlin. Leçons de peinture, d'exposition et de Beauté," Flux News, April - June 2012, p. 6
Isabelle Graw, "Der Grauschleier der Subjek tivität: Über Gerhard Richter in der Neuen Nationalgalerie, Berlin," Texte zur Kunst , June 2012, p. 234
Judd Tully, “The Ascent of Gerhard Richter,” Art + Auction , June 2012, p. 94, illustrated in color
Ulrike Determann, Bridget Limper and Stephanie Host, eds. et. al., Grundschule Kunst , no. 49, April 2012, p. 17, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , Gerhard Richter: Streifen & Glas , 2013-2014, p. 35
Florian Klinger, Theorie der Form: Gerhard Richter und die Kunst des pragmatischen Zeitalters, Munich, 2013, p. 57
Monika Jenni-Preihs, Gerhard Richter und die Geschichte Deutschlands, Vienna/Berlin, 2013, pp. 240-241, p. 137, illustrated in color
Luk Lambrecht, “Gerhard Richter à l'Albertinum de Dresden,” Flux News , no. 63, January - March 2014, p. 21
Exh. Cat., London, Marian Goodman Gallery, Gerhard Richter , 2014, p. 10
Exh. Cat., London, Dominique Lévy Gallery, Gerhard Richter: Colour Charts , 2015-2016, pp. 12, 26, 128
Exh. Cat., Germany, Ludwigshafen, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, How to live? Images of the Future from Malevich to Fujimoto , 2015, p. 176
Exh. Cat., Germany, Ludwig Museum im Deutschherrenhaus , Reality and the Divine - From the Deutschherrenhaus to the Ludwig Museum 1216 - 2016, 2016, p. 59
Exh. Cat., Moscow, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Gerhard Richter: Abstraction and Appearance , 2016, pp. 21, 38, 48, 59
Darryn Ansted, The Artwork of Gerhard Richter: Painting, critical theory and cultural transformation , London, 2016, p. 147, 149
Exh. Cat., Latvian National Museum of Art, Arsenals Exhibition Hall, Elective Affinities: German Art since the Late 1960s , 2016, p. 184
Gerhard Büttner, Kirche sein als communio: Das neue Kirchenfenster im südlichen Querhaus des Kölner Domes von Gerhard Richter , Münster, 2015, p. 91
Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, Trügerische Transparenz , Chicago 2016, p. 75
Gerhard Richter and Stefan Koldehoff, "Gerhard Richters frühe Polemik gegen die Abstraktion," Grisebach, Das Journal , no. 6, 2016, p. 19
Exh. Cat., Germany, Museum Wiesbaden (and traveling), Gerhard Richter: Über Malen/ Frühe Bilder , 2017, p. 23
Dietmar Elger, ed., Gerhard Richter: Catalogue Raisonné, Volume 2: Nos. 199-388, 1968-1976, Ostfildern, 2017, no. 359, illustrated in color (on the cover), pp. 592-594, illustrated in color
Dietmar Elger, Gerhard Richter, Maler, Tokyo, 2017, no. 10, illustrated in color
Helmut Heinze, “Zufall und Maßwerk,” Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten , 9 February 2017, p. 9, illustrated in color
Corinna Belz and Jason Edward Kaufman, “Richter on Film (interview),” Luxury Magazine, Spring 2017, p. 227
Exh. Cat., Potsdam, Museum Barberini, Gerhard Richter: Abstraktion , 2018, p. 41
Gerhard Richter and Hans Ulrich Obrist, “Nothing Works Without Faith,” The Richter Interviews, London, 2019, pp. 67, illustrated in color and p. 70, 73
Armin Zweite, Gerhard Richter: Leben und Werk. Das Denken ist beim Malen das Malen , Munich, 2019, pp. 93, 177, illustrated in color and p. 94
Klaus Honnef, Gerhard Richter , Cologne, 2019, p. 85, illustrated in color and p. 4
Exh. Cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art , Gerhard Richter: Painting After All, 2020, p. 90
Exh. Cat., Beverly Hills, Gagosian, Gerhard Richter: Cage Paintings, 2020, pp. 23, 27-28, illustrated in color
Hans Ulrich Obrist, “Gerhard Richter,” Gagosian , Spring 2021, p. 31
Gerhard Richter and Hans Ulrich Obrist, “Interview,” Gagosian , Spring 2021, p. 36
Reinhard Hoeps, ed ., Kunst und Religion , vol. IV, Paderborn, 2021, p. 471, illustrated in color
"Gerhard Richter," Bijutsu techo, July 2022, p. 44, illustrated in color
Flaminio Gualdoni, Richter: Arte Contemporanea i Protagonisti , Milan, 2022, pp. 9, 72
Gerhard Richter, London, ongoing, no. 359, illustrated in color (online)
Property from an Esteemed Private Collection
Gerhard Richter
b. 1932
4096 Farben
signed, titled, dated 1974 and numbered 359 (on the reverse)
lacquer on canvas
100 by 100 in.
254 by 254 cm.
Executed in 1974.
