L12020

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Lot 20
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Gerhard Richter

Estimate
350,000 - 450,000 GBP
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Description

  • Gerhard Richter
  • Spiegel, blutrot (Mirror, Blood Red)

  • signed, dated 1991 and numbered 736-6 on the reverse

  • colour-coated glass
  • 95 by 86cm.
  • 37 3/8 by 33 7/8 in.

Provenance

Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
Private Collection, Tokyo

Exhibited

Tokyo, Wako Works of Art, Gerhard Richter Part II: Painting, Mirror Painting, Watercolour, Photograph, Print, 1996, n. p., illustrated in colour
Kanazawa, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Gerhard Richter: Painting as Mirror, 2005, p. 98, illustrated in colour
Sakura-City, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Gerhard Richter, 2005-6

Literature

Angelika Thill, et al., Gerhard Richter Catalogue Raisonné, 1962-1993, Ostfildern-Ruit 1993, Vol. III, no. 736-6, illustrated in colour

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate although the tonality of the red is brighter and more vibrant and tends more towards a crimson hue in the original. The catalogue illustration fails to convey the reflective nature of the glass. Condition: This work is in very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

"It's about glass... glass that doesn't show the picture behind it but repeats – mirrors – what is in front of it. And in the case of the coloured mirrors, the result was a kind of cross between a monochrome painting and a mirror, a 'Neither/Nor' – which is what I like about it."

 

The artist interviewed by Jonas Storsve in: Dietmar Elgar and Hans Ulrich Obrist Eds., Gerhard Richter: Text, 2009, p. 272