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Property from an Important New York Collection

Gerhard Richter

Ema (Akt auf einer Treppe)

Auction Closed

May 15, 11:34 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important New York Collection

Gerhard Richter

b. 1932


Ema (Akt auf einer Treppe)

signed, numbered 3/12 and dated '92 (on the reverse of the frame)

Cibachrome photograph mounted on Alucobond in artist's chosen frame

image: 76 ⅜ by 49 ⅝ in. (194 by 126 cm.)

overall: 88 ¼ by 55 ⅛ in. (224 by 140 cm.)

Executed in 1992, this work is number 3 from an edition of 12 plus 1 artist's proof.

James Cohan Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in February 1999 by the present owner

Sydney, Project Gallery, Art Gallery of New South Wales, The 9th Biennale of Sydney: The Boundary Rider, January – March 1993 (another example exhibited)

Denmark, Aarhaus Kunstmuseum, Strange Hotel: International Art, September – November 1993 (another example exhibited)

Bremen, Kunsthalle Bremen, Gerhard Richter: Editions 1965 – 1993, October – November 1993 (another example exhibited)

Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Painting into Photography/Photography into Painting, December 1996 – February 1997 (another example exhibited)

Seattle, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Surrogate: The figure in Contemporary Sculpture and Photography, October 1998 – June 1999 (another example exhibited)

Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, Gerhard Richter in Dallas Collections, February – April 2000, p. 4, illustrated (another example exhibited)

Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), The 12th Biennale of Sydney: Sydney 2000, May – July 2000 (another example exhibited)

Bremen, Neues Museum Weserburg, Without Hesitation: The Olbricht Collection Part 2, June 2001 – September 2001 (another example exhibited)

Greenwich, Bruce Museum, Pleasures of Collecting: Part II. 20th Century and Contemporary Art, January – April 2003 (another example exhibited)

Fort Worth, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 110 Years: The Permanent Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, December 2002 – March 2003 (another example exhibited)

Biel, Kunsthaus Pasquart Centre d'art, Hess Collection – Hang zum Dissens, January – March 2003 (another example exhibited)

Moscow, State Historical Museum, Berlin – Moscow, Moscow – Berlin: 1950 – 2000, March – June 2004 (another example exhibited)

Bonn, Kunstmuseum Bonn; Switzerland, Kunstmuseum Luzern; Emden, Kunsthalle Emden; Tübingen, Kunsthalle; Salzburg, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Gerhard Richter: Printed! Druckgrafik, Foto-Editionen und Künstlerbücher, June – September 2004 (another example exhibited)

Osaka, The National Museum of Art; Yokohama, Yokohama Museum of Art, Mirrorical Returns: Marcel Duchamp and the 20th Century Art, 2004 – 2005, p. 163, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Kanazawa, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Gerhard Richter: Painting as a Mirror, September – October 2005 (another example exhibited)

Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art, November 2006 – May 2007 (another example exhibited)

Dusseldorf, Galerie Schönewald und Beuse, Gerhard Richter: Selected Editions, August – December 2008 (another example exhibited)

New York, Gagosian Gallery, Go Figure, May – August 2009 (another example exhibited)

Krems, Kunsthalle Krems, Lust for Life and Danse Macabre: Olbricht Collection, July – November 2010 (another example exhibited)

Berlin, me Collectors Room, Gerhard Richter: Editions 1965 – 2011, February – May 2012 (another example exhibited)

Turin, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Gerhard Richter: Editions from the Olbricht Collection 1965 – 2012, January – April 2013 (another example exhibited)

Fort Worth, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Highlights from the Permanent Collection, 2015 – 2016 (another example exhibited)

Essen, Museum Folkwang, Gerhard Richter: The Editions, April – July 2017, pp. 14, 48 (text) and 49, illustrated in colour (another example exhibited)

Prague, Národní galerie Praha, Gerhard Richter, April – September 2017 (another example exhibited)

Brisbane, Queensland Art Gallery, Gerhard Richer: The Life of Images, 2018 – 2019 (another example exhibited)

Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, From Dusseldorf to Dallas: Post-War German Art in the DMA Collection, October 2018 – January 2019 (another example exhibited)

Berlin, me Collectors room, Kirchner – Richter – Burgert, September – November 2019 (another example exhibited)

Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales (permanent collection)

New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery (permanent collection)

Hubertus Butin, ed., Gerhard Richter. Editionen 1965-1993, Munich / Bremen 1993, p. 164, no. 68, p. 165, illustrated in in color

Hubertus Butin and Stefan Gronert, eds., Gerhard Richter. Editions 1965 – 2004, Ostfildern 2004, p. 93, 96 and 228, no. 80, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat. and Catalogue Raisonné, Düsseldorf, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (and travelling), Gerhard Richter Catalogue Raisonné 1993 – 2004, 2005, p. 43

Hubertus Butin, Stefan Gronert and Thomas Olbricht, eds., Gerhard Richter: Editions 1965 – 2013, Ostfildern 2014, p. 122, 125-26, 130, 250, p. 215, illustrated in color

Hubertus Butin, Gerhard Richter Unique Pieces in Series, Cologne 2017, p. 6-7