Gerhard Richter - Contemporary Art Day Sale London Thursday, February 12, 2015 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
    Private Collection
    Private Collection

  • Exhibited

    Winterthur, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Gerhard Richter: Drawings and Watercolours, 4 September - 21 November 1999, then travelled to Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 15 January - 19 March 2000, Kaiser Wihelm Museum, Krefeld 9 April - 18 June 2000, De pont Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Tilburg, 1 July - 8 October 2000

  • Literature

    Dieter Schwarz, Gerhard Richter. Zeichnungen 1964 -1999. Werkverzeichnis', Düsseldorf: Kunstmuseum Winterthur & Richter Verlag Düsseldorf, 1999, no. 99/5: p. 320, ill. in b/w; no. 99/14: p. 156, ill. in colour, p. 323, ill. in b/w (cat. rais.)

  • 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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Two works: (i) 15.4.1999 [99/5], 1999; (ii) 27.4.1999 (3) [99/14]

1999
pencil on paper
(i) 19 x 29.4 cm (7 1/2 x 11 5/8 in.)
(ii) 21 x 30.2 cm (8 1/4 x 11 7/8 in.)

(i) Signed and dated 'Richter 15.4.99' lower right.
(ii) Signed and dated '27.4.99. Richter' upper left.

Estimate
£15,000 - 20,000 ‡♠

Sold for £47,500

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Henry Highley
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Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 13 February 2015 2pm