Gerhard Richter - Evening & Day Editions New York Tuesday, October 28, 2014 | Phillips

Evening & Day Editions

New York Auction 28 October 2014 11am & 5:30pm

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    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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Gerhard Richter

Wolke

1971
Offset lithograph, on wove paper, with full margins,
I. 17 1/4 x 17 1/4 in. (43.8 x 43.8 cm)
S. 25 x 23 1/2 in. (63.5 x 59.7 cm)
signed on the front and numbered 70/150 in pencil on the reverse (there were also 12 artist's proofs in Roman numerals), published by Kunstring Folkwant, Essen (with their inkstamp on the reverse), framed.

Estimate
$5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for $8,750

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Evening & Day Editions

New York Auction 28 October 2014 11am & 5:30pm