Known for his use of both photorealism and abstraction in painting, often simultaneously, Gerhard Richter is one of the most important artists working today. Born on 9 February 1932 in Dresden, he began his career as an advertisement and stage painter before attending art school first in Dresden, then in Dusseldorf. The significance of Richter’s career and body of work is evident in his many solo exhibitions at museums worldwide, including at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Portrait Gallery, London; and National Art Museum of China, Beijing. Further, his work was featured in numerous iterations of the German art exposition Documenta. Much of Richter’s work can be identified by its layering of photographic imagery and abstraction; photorealistic representations in his paintings are interrupted by purposeful blurring or lack of focus. In this way he is able to play the two artistic genres off of each other, creating a singular style that has contributed to the advancement of abstraction in painting overall. His works are in collections around the world including the Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden, Dia: Beacon and Albertinum, Dresden. Richter’s prolificacy has been counterbalanced both by his overall popularity and the estimate that over a third of his oeuvre is currently in museum collections, leading to a remarkably strong market for his works. According to Sotheby’s Mei Moses, the average compound annual return for Gerhard Richter is 15.7%, with 94.4% of works increasing in value.

Gerhard Richter

Contemporary Day Auction

Gerhard Richter b. 1932 14.2.88 signed, titled and dated 14.2.88 (lower left of the mount); titled and dated 14.2.88 (on the verso of the mount) oil on paper mounted on paperboard sheet: 11 ¾ by 16 ⅝ in. (29.8 by 42.2 cm.) mount: 13 ¼ by 18 ¼ in. (33.7 by 46.4 cm.) Executed in 1988.

14.2.88 Vision: The Extraordinary Collection of Theodore and Ruth Baum Day Auction

Vision: The Extraordinary Collection of Theodore and Ruth Baum

Vision: The Extraordinary Collection of Theodore and Ruth Baum Gerhard Richter b. 1932 Portrait Luntz signed and dated 65 (on the reverse) oil on canvas 19 ¾ by 15 ¾ in. 50.2 by 40 cm. Executed in 1965.

portrait luntz

Vision: The Extraordinary Collection of Theodore and Ruth Baum Evening Auction

Vision: The Extraordinary Collection of Theodore and Ruth Baum Gerhard Richter b. 1932 Grat 3 signed, dated 1989 and numbered 689-3 (on the reverse) oil on canvas 24 ¼ by 32 ¼ in. 61.6 by 81.9 cm. Executed in 1989.

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Vision: The Extraordinary Collection of Theodore and Ruth Baum Gerhard Richter b. 1932 Gebirge signed, dated 68 and incorrectly numbered 179/2 (on the reverse) acrylic and charcoal on canvas 40 ¼ by 36 ¼ in. 102 by 92 cm. Executed in 1968.

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Gerhard Richter b. 1932 Bagdad signed, dated 2010 and numbered 914-16 (on the reverse) lacquer on glass mounted on Alu-Dibond 19 ¾ by 14 ⅝ in. 50 by 37.1 cm. Executed in 2010.

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The Now and Contemporary Evening Auction

Property from an Esteemed Private Collection

Property from an Esteemed Private Collection Gerhard Richter b. 1932 Spanische Seeschlacht signed, numbered 570-1 and dated 1984 (on the reverse) oil on canvas 47 ½ by 71 in. 120.7 by 180.3 cm. Executed in 1984.

spanische seeschlacht

Table Legs, from: Nine Objects [Neun Objekte], by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Gerhard+Richter&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gerhard Richter</a>, 1969.<ul><li>Gerhard Richter (German, born 1932).</li><li>Offset lithograph on firm wove paper.</li><li>Hand-signed.</li><li>Part of an edition of 80.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> This offset lithograph is hand signed and dated in pencil by the artist "Richter, 1969" at the lower right margins. It is hand numbered in pencil 51/80 at the lower right margin. It was printed by Hoppe &amp; Werry, Mulheim an der Ruhr. and was co-published by Galerie Heiner Friedrich and Verlag G. v. Pape, Munich in 1969 in a limited edition of 80 impressions with 20 few artist’s proofs. This impression is illustrated in the Gerhard Richter official website. In this portfolio Richter produced very elaborate optical illusions. He constructed the nine three-dimensional objects himself and photographed them in everyday environments. Then he had the photographs professionally retouched so that the constructions appeared spatially impossible. He then re-photographed the reworked images and printed them using offset technique.

Table Legs, from: Nine Objects | Neun Objekte

Cube on Lawn Chair, from: Nine Objects [Neun Objekte], by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=gerhard+richter&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gerhard Richter</a>, 1969.<ul><li>Gerhard Richter (German, b. 1932).</li><li>Offset lithograph on wove paper.</li><li>Hand signed, numbered, and dated.</li><li>Part of an edition of 80, this being 51.</li><li>Printed by Hoppe &amp; Werry, Mulheim an der Ruhr.</li><li>Published by Galerie Heiner Friedrich and Verlag G. v. Pape, Munich, 1969.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> This offset lithograph is hand signed and dated in pencil by the artist "Richter, 1969" at the lower right margins. It is hand numbered in pencil “51/80” at the lower right margin. It was printed by Hoppe &amp; Werry, Mulheim an der Ruhr. and was co-published by Galerie Heiner Friedrich and Verlag G. v. Pape, Munich in 1969 in a limited edition of 80 impressions with 20 artist’s proofs. This impression is illustrated in the Gerhard Richter official website.&nbsp;In Neun Objekte, Richter produced very elaborate optical illusions. He constructed the nine three-dimensional objects himself and photographed them in everyday environments. He then had the photographs professionally retouched so that the constructions appeared spatially impossible. After re-photographing the reworked images, Richter printed them using offset technique.

Cube on Lawn Chair from Nine Objects | Neun Objekte

Object on Cloth, from: Nine Objects [Neun Objekte], by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=gerhard+richter&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gerhard Richter</a>, 1969.<ul><li>Gerhard Richter (German, b. 1932).</li><li>Offset lithograph on wove paper.</li><li>Hand signed, numbered, and dated.</li><li>Part of an edition of 80, this being 51.</li><li>Printed by Hoppe &amp; Werry, Mulheim an der Ruhr. </li><li>Published by Galerie Heiner Friedrich and Verlag G. v. Pape, Munich, 1969.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> This offset lithograph is hand signed and dated in pencil by the artist "Richter, 1969" at the lower right margins. It is hand numbered in pencil “51/80” at the lower right margin. It was printed by Hoppe &amp; Werry, Mulheim an der Ruhr. and was co-published by Galerie Heiner Friedrich and Verlag G. v. Pape, Munich in 1969 in a limited edition of 80 impressions with 20 artist’s proofs. This impression is illustrated in the Gerhard Richter official website.&nbsp;In Neun Objekte, Richter produced very elaborate optical illusions. He constructed the nine three-dimensional objects himself and photographed them in everyday environments. He then had the photographs professionally retouched so that the constructions appeared spatially impossible. After re-photographing the reworked images, Richter printed them using offset technique.

Object on Cloth from Nine Objects | Neun Objekte

Object on a Table, from Nine Objects / [Neun Objekte], by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Gerhard+Richter&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gerhard Richter</a>, 1969.<ul><li>Gerhard Richter (German, born 1932).</li><li>Offset lithograph on firm wove paper.</li><li>Hand-signed.</li><li>Part of an edition of 80.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> This offset lithographs is hand signed and dated by the artist "Richter, 1969" in pencil at the lower right margins.&nbsp;It is hand numbered in pencil 51/80 on the lower right margin. It was co-published by Galerie Heiner Friedrich and Verlag G. v. Pape, Munich in 1969 in a limited edition of 80 impressions with 20 few artist’s proofs.&nbsp;It was printed by Hoppe &amp; Werry, Mulheim an der Ruhr.&nbsp;This impression is illustrated in the Gerhard Richter official website.&nbsp;In this portfolio Richter produced very elaborate optical illusions. He constructed the nine three-dimensional objects himself and photographed them in everyday environments. Then he had the photographs professionally retouched so that the constructions appeared spatially impossible. He then re-photographed the reworked images and printed them using offset technique.

Object on a Table, from Nine Objects / Neun Objekte

P08-P11 by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Gerhard+Richter&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gerhard Richter</a>, 2014.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 4.</li><li>Gerhard Richter (German, born 1932).</li><li>C-prints.</li><li>Numbered, from an edition of 500.</li><li>Each is presented unframed.</li></ul>

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