Gerhard Richter - Photographs New York Thursday, April 8, 2021 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York

  • 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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12.9.94

1994
Hand-applied oil paint on chromogenic print, unique.
3 5/8 x 5 1/2 in. (9.2 x 14 cm)
Signed and dated in pencil on the mount; signed and dated in ink on the reverse of the frame.

Estimate
$30,000 - 50,000 

Sold for $90,720

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Sarah Krueger
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Vanessa Hallett
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Photographs

New York Auction 8 April 2021