Sotheby's Presents: Gerhard Richter's Monumental Masterpiece

London | 1 March 2023

A monumental masterpiece from Gerhard Richter’s celebrated cycle of abstract paintings is to headline Sotheby’s London Modern and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 1 March 2023. Of spectacular proportions, spanning four metres across, Abstraktes Bild, 1986, is one of the first large-scale paintings from the series ever created by the artist, boasting a size and chromatic intensity rarely found even within the grand arc of the artist’s monumental masterworks. Join us live on 1 March at 19:00 GMT to watch this spectacular lot come under the hammer.

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