Gerhard Richter - New Now New York Wednesday, September 26, 2018 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Private Collection, London
    Phillips, London, June 21, 2016, lot 222
    Acquired at the above sale 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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Abstraktes Bild (P1)

numbered "402/500" on the reverse
chromogenic print, mounted on aluminum
36 1/4 x 49 5/8 in. (92 x 126 cm.)
Executed in 2014, this facsimile object is number 402 from an edition of 500.

Estimate
$12,000 - 18,000 

Sold for $32,500

Contact Specialist
Sam Mansour
Associate Specialist, Head of New Now Sale
New York
+1 212 940 1219
smansour@phillips.com

New Now

New York Auction 26 September 2018