Lot 246
  • 246

Gerhard Richter

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description

  • Gerhard Richter
  • Ophelia
  • signed, dated 1998 and numbered 29/35 on the reverse
  • cibachrome print between plexiglass and aluminium
  • 101.6 by 116.5 cm. 40 by 45 7/8 in.
  • Executed in 1998, this work is number 29 from an edition of 35, plus 3 artist's proofs.

Provenance

Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
Galerie Springer & Winckler, Berlin
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Stuttgart, Übersicht, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., Gerhard Richter,
September - November 2000, p. 58, illustrated in colour (another example exhibited)
Bonn, Kunstmuseum Bonn; Luzern,
Kunstmuseum Luzern; Emden, Kunsthalle in Emden; Tübingen, Kunsthalle Tübingen; Salzburg, Museum der Moderne, Gerhard Richter. Printed, June 2004 – October 2005 (ed. no. unknown)
Berlin, me Collectors Room, Gerhard Richter – Editionen 1965-2011, February - May 2012 (ed. no. unknown)
Turin, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Gerhard Richter: Edizioni 1965–2012 dalla
Collezione Olbricht, January - April 2013 (ed. no. unknown)
Dusseldorf, K20 Grabbeplatz, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Gerhard Richter – Die Kunst im Plural, February - March 2014 (ed. no. unknown)
Essen, Museum Folkwang, Gerhard Richter – Die Editionen, April - July 2017

Literature

Hubertus Butin and Stefan Gronert, Eds., Gerhard Richter. Editionen 1965-2004. Catalogue Raisonné, Ostfildern 2004, p. 245, no. 96, illustrated in colour (ed. no. unknown)
Hubertus Butin, Stefan Gronert and Thomas Olbricht, Eds., Gerhard Richter: Editions 1965- 2013 Catalogue Raisonné, Ostfildern, 2014, p. 267, no. 96, illustrated in colour (ed. no. unknown)

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Extremely close inspection in raking light reveals some unobtrusive surface scratches and media accretions in places to the plexiglass.
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