Gerhard Richter - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Monday, June 27, 2016 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Gallery HAM, Nagoya
    Christie's, New York, First Open, 23 September 2014, lot 104
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Literature

    J. Harten and D. Elger, eds., Gerhard Richter. Bilder / paintings 1962-1985, Cologne:1986, no. 325/99, pp. 148 and 380 (illustrated)
    B. Buchloh, ed., Gerhard Richter: Wekübersicht/Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1993, vol. III, no. 325/99, p. 163 (illustrated)

  • 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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Property from a Private European Collection

133

Inpainting Brown

1972
oil on canvas
27 x 40 cm (10 5/8 x 15 3/4 in.)
Signed and dated 'Richter 72' on the reverse.

Estimate
£40,000 - 60,000 

Sold for £52,500

Contact Specialist
Henry Highley
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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 28 June 2016