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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 8, 2023 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Evening Sale | 22 | $****** - ****** | Alster (Hamburg) |
paintings
62 x 84 cm (24.41 x 33.07 in)
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated on the reverse
Galerie René Block, Berlin. Klaus E. uad U. Momm Collection, Bremen (presumably acquired from the above - 1995, Christie"s New York, May 3, 1995). Galerie Orangerie-Reinz, Cologne. Olbricht Collection, Essen. Private collection Northern Germany.
• Prominent exhibition history: In 1964 in the legendary "Front Yard Exhibition" at Galerie Parnass, which was seminal for Richter"s work and since then shown in many important Richter exhibitions . Vorgartenausstellung, Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, February 1964 (still with the blank margin that Richter removed at a later point). Gerd Richter. Fotobilder, Portraits und Familien, Galerie Friedrich & Dahlem, Munich, June 10 - July 10, 1964. Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts aus privaten Sammlungen im Lande Bremen, Kunsthalle Bremen, June 30 - September 15, 1985. Gerhard Richter. Bilder / Paintings 1962-1985, Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf / Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, January 18 - June 1, 1986. Gerhard Richter. Landschaften, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, October 4, 1998 - January 3, 1999 (fig. p. 41). Gerhard Richter, K20 Grabbeplatz, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf. February 12 - May 16, 2005. Gerhard Richter, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, June 4 - August 21, 2005 (fig. p. 102). Gerhard Richter. Bilder einer Epoche, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, February 5 - May 5, 2011(illu. p.128). Gerhard Richter. Bilder / Paintings 1962-1985, exhibition catalog Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf et al, 1986 (fig. p. 6). Gerhard Richter. Werkübersicht / Catalogue raisonné 1962-1993, exhibition catalog Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn et al, vol. III, Stuttgart 1993 (fig. no. 10). Christie"s , New York, Contemporary Art Auction, May 3, 1995, lot 32, p. 70 (fig. p. 71). Ulrich Pohlmann, Eine andere Natur. Das Fotoarchiv des Künstlers von Barbizon bis Gerhard Richter, in: Jahrbuch 13, Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, vol. 1, Munich 1999, p. 432 (illu. p. 433) Rainer Unruh, Max Beckmann/Gerhard Richter, in: Kunstforum international, Jan./Feb. 1999, p 366. Dietmar Elger, Gerhard Richter. Maler, Cologne 2002, p. 164. Armin Zweite, Sehen, Reflektieren, Erscheinen. Anmerkungen zum Werk von Gerhard Richter, in: Exhibition catalog Gerhard Richter, K20 Grabbeplatz, Kunstsammlungen Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 2005, pp. 19-21 (fig. p. 102). Dietmar Elger (ed.), Gerhard Richter. Landschaften, Ostfildern 2011 (fig. p. 7). Dietmar Elger, Das gemalte Foto. Gerhard Richter im Atelier, in: Gerhard Richter, Bilder einer Epoche, exhibition catalog Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, 2011, p. 68 (fig. p. 128 and p. 197). Uwe M. Schneede, Kommentiertes Verzeichnis der ausgestellten Werke, in: Gerhard Richter. Bilder einer Epoche, exhibition Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, 2011, p. 197 (fig. p. 128 and p. 197). Francesco Zanot, Gerhard Richter, in: Walter Guadagnini (ed.): Photography. From the Press to the Museum 1941-1980, Milan 2013 (illu. p. 219). Gerhard Richter/Götz Adriani, Gerhard Richter 1962 bis 1969 (interview), in: Die jungen Jahre der alten Meister. Baselitz - Richter - Polke - Kiefer, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 2019, p. 118. Armin Zweite, Gerhard Richter. Leben und Werk. Das Denken ist beim Malen das Malen, Munich 2019, p. 224 (illu. p. 224). Almuth Spiegler, Spielfelder, in: art. Das Kunstmagazin, October 2020, p. 33. “Gerhard Richter has been making landscape pictures for more than 45 years. In the list of works, with the first entry made in 1962 and consistently kept since, they are mentioned as depictions of Neuschwanstein Castle [catalogue raisonné no. 8, Frieder Burda Collection, Baden-Baden] and as a view of the Alster in Hamburg at night [catalogue raisonné no. 10] as early as for the following year. No other subject has fascinated Gerhard Richter as much or occupied him for a comparable period of time. The number of landscapes has remained rather small. What makes for their significance is the outstanding status that they claim in the oeuvre in general and for the consistency with which Gerhard Richter has repeatedly placed them in an intuitive dialogue with other motifs and, above all, his abstract pictures.” Dietmar Elger, Landschaft als Modell, in: Dietmar Elger (ed.), Gerhard Richter. Landscapes, Ostfildern 2011, p. 17. “Gerhard Richter [..] is considered [..] the world"s most important post-war painter. More than a million people saw his most recent retrospective, and his work is celebrated by both art history as well as the art market: paintings by Richter, especially earlier ones, fetch hammer prices in double-digit millions at international auctions.” Catrin Lorch, Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 18/19 2016, no. 139, p. 24.
Dietmar Elger, Gerhard Richter, catalogue raisonné, vol. 1, 1962-1968, Ostfildern 2011, pp. 65-66, no. 10 (fig.). Gerhard Richter, 36. Biennale in Venedig (Deutscher Pavillon), Essen 1972 (fig. p. 48).
Alster (Hamburg) . 1963. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated on the reverse. 62 x 84 cm (24.4 x 33 in). [JS]. • First black-and-white landscape and at the same time the first townscape in Gerhard Richter"s oeuvre. • Paintings from the 1960s are among the most sought-after works. • Works from the group of townscapes are extremely rare on the international auction market • The city view “Cathedral Square, Milan” (1968) set a world record in 2013 (source: artnet.com)
