Gerhard Richter - Heatwave London Wednesday, July 22, 2020 | Phillips

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  • Description

    Please note this lot is the property of a private individual

  • Provenance

    Tate Modern, London
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Literature

    Achim Borchardt-Hume, Lamia Joreige and Sandra Dagner, Gerhard Richter: Beirut, Beirut, 2012, p. 11 (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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MV. 17

signed, titled, numbered and dated 'MV. 17 Richter 2011' on the mount
lacquer on colour photograph
10 x 15 cm (3 7/8 x 5 7/8 in.)
Executed in 2011.

Estimate
£35,000 - 50,000 

Contact Specialist

Charlotte Gibbs

Head of Sale, London

+44 20 7901 7993

cgibbs@phillips.com

 

Heatwave

Online Auction 22 - 30 July 2020