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Property of a Distinguished American Collector

Gerhard Richter

Abstraktes Bild

Estimate

6,000,000 - 8,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Gerhard Richter

b. 1932


Abstraktes Bild

signed twice, dated 1922 and numbered 757 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

175 by 250.8 cm. 68⅞ by 98¾ in.

Executed in 1992.

Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York

Joseph Hackmey, Tel Aviv (acquired from the above in 1993)

The Israel Phoenix Assurance Co. Ltd, Givatayim (acquired as a gift from the above)

Christie's, New York, 13 November 2002, lot 59 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, South Korea

Blackburn Gallery, Los Angeles

Schönewald Fine Arts, Xanten / Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco (acquired from the above in 2007)

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 2007)

Christie's, London, 14 October 2011, lot 23

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Kassel, Documenta IX, Gerhard Richter, June – September 1992, no. 8, pp. 26-27, illustrated in colour

Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, A Passion for the New: New Art in Tel Aviv Collections, October 1995 - January 1996, p. 37, illustrated in colour

New York, Museum of Modern Art; and Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting, February – September 2002, p. 235, illustrated in colour

Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, “Gerhard Richter und die Allegorie des Abstrakten Kabinetts,” Texte zur Kunst, December 1992, p. 37, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Bonn, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Gerhard Richter: 1962-1993, Volume III, 1993-94, no. 757, n.p., illustrated in colour

Robert Storr, Gerhard Richter, Malerei, Ostfildern 2002, p. 235, illustrated in colour

Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Rondorf, Gemeindebrief 24/73, December 2002 - April 2003, p. 17, illustrated in colour

Robert Storr, Gerhard Richter: Doubt and Belief in Painting, New York 2003, p. 124, illustrated

Bruno Eble, Gerhard Richter, La surface du regard, Paris 2006, p. 210 (text)

Ingeborg Ruthe, “Millionen-Glanz der Richter-Bilder,” Berliner Zeitung, 27 September 2011, p. 21, illustrated in colour

Dietmar Elger, Gerhard Richter: Catalogue Raisonné, Volume 4, 1988-1994, Ostfildern 2017, no. 757, pp. 432-33, illustrated in colour