Gerhard Richter - The Arc of Photography: A Private East Coast Collection New York Tuesday, October 4, 2011 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    From the Collection of the artist; Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf; Sammlung Marlis Grüterich; Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin; David Zwirner Gallery, New York; Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco

  • Literature

    Museum Boymans-van Beuningen Rotterdam, Gerhard Richter, p. 29 for a single image illustrated in black and white

  • 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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THE ARC OF PHOTOGRAPHY: A PRIVATE EAST COAST COLLECTION

236

Gilbert & George

1975
Six color coupler prints and one gelatin silver print, mounted to board.
Color coupler prints, each 4 7/8 x 3 1/2 in. (12.4 x 8.9 cm) or the reverse; gelatin silver print, 7 1/8 x 8 7/8 in. (18.1 x 22.5 cm).

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for $25,000

The Arc of Photography: A Private East Coast Collection

4 October 2011 6PM
New York