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Gerhard Richter (b. 1932)
Lot 142 PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED GERMAN COLLECTION

Gerhard Richter (b. 1932)

September

Closed1 July 2015

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GBP 100,900

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Gerhard Richter (b. 1932)
September
signed and numbered 'Richter 6/40' (on a label affixed to the reverse)
digital inkjet print between two panes of glass
image: 20 3/8 x 28 3/8in. (51.8 x 72cm.)
overall: 26 x 35 3/8in. (66 x 90cm.)
Executed in 2009, this work is number six from an edition of forty plus four artist's proofs

John Hage, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

‘The little picture of the two towers was very colourful to start with, with the garish explosion beneath the wonderful blue sky and the flying rubble. That couldn’t work; only when I destroyed it, so to speak, scratched it off, was it fit to be seen’ (G. Richter, quoted in ‘Interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist, November 2006’, in D. Elger and H. Ulrich Obrist (eds.), Gerhard Richter, TEXT: Writings, Interviews and Letters: 1961-2007, London 2009, p. 527).