Live Auction 13892Post-War & Contemporary Art
Gerhard Richter (B. 1932)
Lot 61

Gerhard Richter (B. 1932)

24.2.85

Closed28 September 2017

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USD 200,000

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Gerhard Richter (B. 1932)
24.2.85
signed and titled '"24.2.85" Richter' (on the reverse)
oil, watercolor and graphite on paper
6 5/8 x 9 ¼ in. (16.8 x 23.5 cm.)
Executed in 1985.

Barbara Guggenheim Associates Inc., New York
Peter B. Lewis, Cleveland, 1986
His sale; Sotheby's, New York, 12 November 2014, lot 236
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note

"In abstract painting we have found a better way of gaining access to the unvisualisable, the incomprehensible; because abstract painting deploys the utmost visual immediacy – all the resources of art, in fact – in order to depict 'nothing'.”
-Gerhard Richter