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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 6, 2025 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Evening Sale | 12 | $****** - ****** | Abstraktes Bild |
paintings
72 x 62 cm (28.35 x 24.41 in)
Oil on canvas.
Signed, dated and inscribed with the work number "704-3" on the reverse
Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich. Private collection South Germany (acquired from the above in 1991). Private collection Hesse (gifted from the above in 2014).
Gerhard Richter. Fotoeditionen, Aquarelle und Bilder, Galerie Jahn und Fusban, Munich 1991.
Dietmar Elger, Gerhard Richter. Catalogue raisonné, vol. 4: 1988-1994, Ostfidlern 2015, no. 704-3 (illustrated in color on p. 259). - - Gerhard Richter. Werkübersicht / Catalogue raisonné 1962-1993, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn 1993, vol. III, cat. no. 704-3 (illustrated). “In the 2011 documentary Gerhard Richter, Painting , [Ulrich] Wilmes characterizes these paintings as "mature". Richter distinguished this creative phase [.] from his earlier abstract paintings as the "more grown-up" one." Dietmar Elger, quoted from: Gerhard Richter. Catalogue raisonné, vol. 4: 1988-1994, Ostfidlern 2015, p. 35. "The pictures thrive on the viewer"s desire to find meaning in them. At every point, they reveal similarities to real phenomena, though these cannot be properly explained. It"s like in music, which evokes moods because it resembles real sounds. [..] They remind us of something, otherwise they wouldn"t be picturres at all. " Gerhard Richter, 1999, quoted from: Gerard Richter, Text 1961 bis 2007, Cologne 2008, pp. 360ff. Called up: June 6, 2025 - ca. 17.52 h +/- 20 min.
Gerhard Richter
Abstraktes Bild
1989.
Oil on canvas.
Signed, dated and inscribed with the work number "704-3" on the reverse. 72 x 62 cm (28.3 x 24.4 in). [JS].
• From Richter"s most sought-after creative period (1986-1990), when the use of the squeegee dominated his painting for the first time.
• Outstanding quality and depth: Gerhard Richter describes this phase of his work as the mature period of his “Abstract Paintings.”
• Following the iconic RAF cycle (1988, Museum of Modern Art, New York), Richter revisited a spring-like, bright color palette in the present work.
• A tense symbiosis of squeegee and brush, calculation and chance, depth and lightness.
• Paintings from this creative phase are in the most important collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern, London, and the National Museum of Art, Osaka
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