Gerhard Richter - Contemporary Art Day Sale London Monday, June 29, 2015 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Private Collection, London

  • 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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Abstractes Bild, 1990, CR 724-4

2014
chromogenic print, Diasec mounted on aluminium
92 x 126 cm (36 1/4 x 49 5/8 in.)
Numbered '415/500' on the reverse. Produced by Heni Productions under the catalogue number 'P1'. This work is number 415 from an edition of 500.

Estimate
£4,000 - 6,000 

Sold for £36,250

Contact Specialist
Henry Highley
Head of Sale
hhighley@phillips.com
+ 44 20 7318 4061

Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 30 June 2015 2pm