Grau

Details

Gerhard Richter (b. 1932)
Grau
signed, numbered and dated 'Nr. 340/5 Richter, 73' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas on board
50 x 60 cm.
Painted in 1973

Provenance

Private Collection, Europe (acquired directly from the artist).
Thence by descent to the present owner.

Literature

J. Harten (ed.) and D. Elger, Gerhard Richter: Bilder 1962-1985, exh. cat., Dusseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1986, p. 164.
Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (ed.), Gerhard Richter, Werkübersicht/Catalogue Raisonné: 1962-1993, vol. III, Ostfildern-Ruit 1993, p. 165, no. 340-5, (illustrated, unpaged).

Exhibited

Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Gerhard Richter, 1973.

Special Notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent. “ ! ”: Lot is imported from outside the EU. For each Lot the Buyer’s Premium is calculated as 37.75% of the Hammer Price up to a value of €30,000, plus 31.7% of the Hammer Price between €30,001 and €1,200,000, plus 22.02% of any amount in excess of €1,200,000.

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Lot Essay

'Grey. It makes no statement whatever; it evokes neither feelings nor associations: it is really neither visible nor invisible. Its inconspicuousness gives it the capacity to mediate, to make visible, in a positively illusionistic way, like a photograph. It has the capacity that no other colour has, to make "nothing" visible'
(Gerhard Richter in a letter to Edy de Wilde in 1975 in: Gerhard Richter: Text. Writings, Interviews and Letters 1961-2007, London 2009, p. 92).

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