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Gerhard Richter (b. 1932)
Lot 4 THE PROPERTY OF A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTOR

Gerhard Richter (b. 1932)

Abstraktes Bild

Closed14 February 2012

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GBP 993,250

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Gerhard Richter (b. 1932)
Abstraktes Bild
signed, numbered and dated '819-4 Richter 1994' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
24 x 28in. (61 x 71cm.)
Painted in 1994

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
Private Collection, New York.
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2005.

Specialist note

'The unknown simultaneously alarms us and fills us with hope, and so we accept the pictures as a possible way to make the inexplicable more explicable, or at all events more accessible... So, in dealing with this inexplicable reality, the lovelier, cleverer, madder, extremer and more incomprehensible the analogy, the better the picture' (G. Richter quoted in H.U. Obrist and D. Britt (eds.), The Daily Practice of Paintings: Writings and Interviews, 1962-1993, Cambridge 1995, p. 100).