Live Auction 2481Post-War and Contemporary Art Session II
Gerhard Richter (b. 1932)
Lot 630

Gerhard Richter (b. 1932)

Abstraktes Bild

Closed9 November 2011

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USD 782,500

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Gerhard Richter (b. 1932)
Abstraktes Bild
signed, numbered and dated '805-5 Richter 1994' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
22¼ x 24¼ in. (56.5 x 61.5 cm.)
Painted in 1994.

Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
Collection of Anthony d'Offay, London
Schönewald Fine Arts, Dusseldorf
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

"The intention [is] to invent nothing - no idea, no composition, no object, no form - and to receive everything: composition, object, form, idea, picture." (G. Richter quoted in U. Wilmes, ed., Gerhard Richter: Large Abstracts, Ostfildern, 2008, p. 135).