Lot 133
  • 133

Gerhard Richter

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Gerhard Richter
  • Kugel I (Sphere I)
  • incised with the artist's name, date 1989 and number 25/25 
  • polished stainless steel
  • 3 1/8 by 3 1/8 by 3 1/8 in. 8 by 8 by 8 cm.
  • Executed in 1989, this work is number 25 from an edition of 25, plus 5 artist's proofs.

Provenance

Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1991

Exhibited

London, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, Gerhard Richter Mirrors, April - June 1991, cat. no. 26, p. 71, illustrated in color on the dustjacket (another example exhibited)
Kunsthalle Bremen, Gerhard Richter: Editionen 1965-1993, October - November 1993
Erice, La Salerniana, ex convento di San Carlo, La dimora dei corpi gravi: Tributo A Masaccio, October - December 1994, p. 85, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Dallas Museum of Art, Gerhard Richter in Dallas Collections, February - April 2000 (another example exhibited)
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Neue Welt, June - September 2001, p. 5, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Essen, Museum Folkwang, Moving Energies #3: Aspekte der Sammlung Olbricht, January - April 2004 (another example illustrated)
Düsseldorf, Galerie Schönewald und Beuse, Gerhard Richter: Ausgewählte Editionen, August - December 2008 (another example exhibited)
Dallas Museum of Art, Two x Two x Ten: Celebrating Ten Years of Two by Two for Aids and Art, October 2008 - January 2009 (another example exhibited)
Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Zwei Sammler. Thomas Olbricht und Harald Falckenberg, June - August 2011 (another example exhibited)
Berlin, me Collectors Room, Gerhard Richter: Editionen 1965–2011, February - May 2012 (another example exhibited)
Turin, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Gerhard Richter: Edizioni 1965–2012 dalla Collezione Olbricht, January - April 2013 (another example exhibited)
Essen, Folkwang Museum, Gerhard Richter: Die Editionen, April - July 2017 (another example exhibited)
Kunstmuseum Bochum, doing identity: Die Sammlung Reydan Weiss, November 2017 - February 2018, pp. 25 and 112, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Literature

Exh. Cat., Carré d'Art, Museé d'Art Contemporain de Nîmes, Gerhard Richter 100 Pictures, 1996, p. 143 
Dieter Schwarz and Birgit Pelzer, Eds., Gerhard Richter Drawings 1964-1999, Catalogue Raisonné, Düsseldorf 2000, p. 21 
Exh. Cat., Berlin, Deutsche Guggenheim, Gerhard Richter Acht Grau, 2002, p. 26 
Exh. Cat., Kunstmuseum Bonn (and travelling), Gerhard Richter: Printed! Druckgrafik, Foto-Editionen und Künstlerbücher, 2004-2005, p. 215, illustrated in color 
Exh. Cat., Geel, de Halle, St.-Dimpnakerk, Gasthuismuseum & Kunsthuis Yellow Art, Middle Gate Geel '13, 2013, p. 229
Hubertus Butin, Ed., Gerhard Richter Editions 1965-2013, Ostfildern 2014, cat. no. 70, p. 239, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good and sound condition overall. Under close inspection, minor surface scratches visible.
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