ID 1250652
Lot 112 | GERHARD RICHTER (B. 1932)
Estimate value
£ 50 000 – 70 000
War Cut II
signed, numbered and dated '24/50 Richter, 2004' (on the endpaper); numbered '24' (on the penultimate page)
oil on artist's book
10 x 8 5/8in. (25.5 x 21.8cm.)
Executed in 2004, this work is number twenty-four from an edition of fifty unique variants plus twenty Hors Commerce copies and thirty copies of the French edition.
Provenance
Private Collection, Germany.
Anon. sale, Kunsthaus Lempertz, 4 December 2010, lot 498.
Private Collection.
Leo Koenig Inc., New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2012.
Literature
H. Butin, S. Gronert, and the Dallas Museum of Art (eds.), Gerhard Richter. Editions 1965-2004, Catalogue Raisonné, Ostfildern-Ruit 2004, p. 277, no. 125 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 276).
V. Marsilio, Il bordo del mondo, Venice 2011, pp 155 and 194.
H. Butin, S. Gronert, and T. Olbricht (eds.), Gerhard Richter. Editions 1965-2013. Catalogue Raisonné, Ostfildern 2014, no. 125 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 296).
H. Butin, Gerhard Richter: Unikate in Serie / Unique Pieces in Series, Cologne 2017, pp. 148-149 and 152-153 (other works from the edition illustrated in colour, pp. 154-155).
Further details
We thank Mr Hubertus Butin for the information he has kindly provided on this work.
| Artist: | Gerhard Richter (1932) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
| Art style: | Contemporary art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Gerhard Richter (1932) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
| Art style: | Contemporary art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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