Gerhard Richter - New Now London Tuesday, April 10, 2018 | Phillips

New Now

London Auction 11 April 2018

  • Provenance

    Fondation Beyeler, Riehen
    Private Collection, Germany

  • 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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Gerhard Richter

Flow (P16)

numbered '417/500' on the reverse
Diasec-mounted chromogenic print on aluminium
100 x 200 cm (39 3/8 x 78 3/4 in.)
Executed in 2016, this facsimile object is number 417 from an edition of 500 plus 2 artist's proofs.

Estimate
£6,000 - 8,000 ♠

Sold for £8,750

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New Now

London Auction 11 April 2018