Gerhard Richter
Vesuv-Ausbruch
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March 5, 01:57 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Gerhard Richter
b. 1932
Vesuv-Ausbruch
signed and dated twice Dez. 77 (lower right); titled (lower left); signed, dated Dez. 77 and variously inscribed (on the verso)
watercolour, graphite, ballpoint pen and ink on paper
22 by 32 cm. 8⅝ by 12⅝ in.
framed: 31.6 by 41.5 cm. 12½ by 16⅜ in.
Executed in 1977.
The present work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the watercolors by Gerhard Richter, edited by Dietmar Elger, Gerhard Richter Archive, State Art Collections, Dresden.
Acquired as a gift from the artist in February 1995 by the present owner
Dieter Schwartz, Gerhard Richter: Drawings 1964-1999, Catalogue Raisonné, Düsseldorf 1999, p. 213, illustrated in colour