Lot 17
  • 17

Gerhard Richter

Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 EUR
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Description

  • Gerhard Richter
  • Abstrakte skizze
  • signed, inscribed and dated 1988 on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 35 x 40 cm; 13 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.
  • Executed in 1988.

Provenance

Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens
Galerie Durand Dessert, Paris
Acquired from the above by the current owner

Exhibited

Athens, Jean Bernier Gallery, Gerhard Richter, 11 May - 3 June 1989
Bignan, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Praxis, 8 April - 13 November 1994; catalogue, n.p., illustrated in colour

Literature

Exh. Cat., Bonn, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Gerhard Richter: Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1993, Vol. III, Ostfildern-Ruit 1993, no. 664-8, n.p., illustrated in colour
Jean Bernier Gallery 1977-1998, Athens, 1998, n.p., illustrated in colour
Dietmar Elger, Gerhard Richter, Catalogue Raisonné Volume 4, 1988-1994, Ostfildern 2015, no. 664-8, p. 97, illustrated in colour

Condition

The colours are fairly accurate in the catalogue illustration. The work is executed on its original canvas and is not relined. Under Ultra Violet light inspection there is no evidence of restoration. Aside from some very minor wears to the tips of the corners, this work is in excellent condition.
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Catalogue Note

“With abstract painting we created a better means of approaching what can neither be seen nor understood.”
Gerhard Richter in Exhibition Catalogue, Kassel, Documenta 7, 1982, Vol.1, p. 443