Gerhard Richter - Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session New York Wednesday, May 15, 2024 | Phillips
  • “Despite all my technical experience, I can’t always exactly foresee what will happen when I apply or remove large amounts of paint with the scraper. Surprises always emerge, whether disappointing or pleasant, in either case representing changes to the painting—changes that I have to process mentally before I can continue.”
    —Gerhard Richter 

    • Provenance

      James Cohan Gallery, New York
      Acquired from the above by the present owner

    • Artist Biography

      Gerhard Richter

      German • 1932

      Powerhouse painter Gerhard Richter has been a key player in defining the formal and ideological agenda for painting in contemporary art. His instantaneously recognizable canvases literally and figuratively blur the lines of representation and abstraction. Uninterested in classification, Richter skates between unorthodoxy and realism, much to the delight of institutions and the market alike. 

      Richter's color palette of potent hues is all substance and "no style," in the artist's own words. From career start in 1962, Richter developed both his photorealist and abstracted languages side-by-side, producing voraciously and evolving his artistic style in short intervals. Richter's illusory paintings find themselves on the walls of the world's most revered museums—for instance, London’s Tate Modern displays the Cage (1) – (6), 2006 paintings that were named after experimental composer John Cage and that inspired the balletic 'Rambert Event' hosted by Phillips Berkeley Square in 2016. 

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Untitled 26.2.89

signed and dated "Richter 26.2.89" lower left; signed and dated "26.2.89 Richter" on the reverse
oil on heavy paper
8 1/4 x 11 3/4 in. (21 x 29.8 cm)
Painted on February 26, 1989.

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
$100,000 - 150,000 

Sold for $190,500

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Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session

New York Auction 15 May 2024