Gerhard Richter - Modern & Contemporary Editions New York Sunday, November 21, 2010 | Phillips

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  • 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 OF DREIER LLP THIS LOT IS SOLD WITH NO RESERVE

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1260 Farben (1260 Colors)

1974
Offset print in colors, on card paper, with full margins,
I. 23 3/8 x 30 3/8 in. (59.4 x 77.2 cm);
S. 24 3/4 x 31 5/8 in. (62.9 x 80.3 cm)

signed, dated `1974' and annotated 'Druck probe' in pencil (a trial proof, the edition was 75 and 8 in Roman numerals), published by Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich, the colors very slightly attenuated, very minor wear in places along the sheet edges, otherwise in very good condition, framed.

Estimate
$3,000 - 5,000 

Sold for $12,500

Modern & Contemporary Editions

21 Nov 2010
New York