Gerhard Richter - Modern and Contemporary Editions New York Wednesday, May 21, 2008 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Hubertus Butin 62

  • Catalogue Essay

    This image is based on the watercolor G.EL. 1, 18.1.1984.

  • 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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IBM

1987
Offset lithograph in colors with graphite additions, on glossy lightweight cardboard, with margins,
I. 10 5/8 x 14 1/8 in. (27 x 35.9 cm).;
S. 19 1/2 x 22 3/4 in. (49.5 x 57.8 cm)

signed, dated '1987' and numbered 'e.a. XI/XX' in pencil (aside from the edition of 75), published by IBM Deutschland, in very good condition, framed.

Estimate
$4,000 - 6,000 

Sold for $7,500

Modern and Contemporary Editions

21 May 2008, 2pm
New York