Live Auction 15969Post-War and Contemporary Art Morning Session
Gerhard Richter (B. 1932)
Lot 601

Gerhard Richter (B. 1932)

15.2.88

Closed18 May 2018

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USD 324,500

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Gerhard Richter (B. 1932)
15.2.88
signed and dated '15.2.88 - Richter' (on the front of the museum board)
oil on paper
11 ¾ x 16 ½ in. (29.8 x 41.9 cm.)
Painted in 1988.

Damon Brandt Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1989

Specialist note

This work is included in The Gerhard Richter Online Catalogue Raisonné as 15.2.88.

“It is more exciting with the abstract ones, and it goes faster. It has an effect similar to my earlier enthusiasm for developing photos in the darkroom. Something is created there all by itself, which one only has to observe in order to intervene at the right moment.” ((G. Richter in D. Schwarz, Gerhard Richter Aquarelle/Watercolors 1964-1997, Dusseldorf, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, 1999, p. 24)