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GERHARD RICHTER (B. 1932)

Lot 214
27.02.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1380738
Lot 214 | GERHARD RICHTER (B. 1932)
Estimate value
$ 200 000 – 300 000
GERHARD RICHTER (B. 1932)
Betty
signed, numbered and dated 'Richter, 1991 6/25' (on the reverse)
offset lithograph mounted on board, in artist's frame
image: 38 ¼ x 26 in. (97.2 x 66 cm.)
frame: 50 3/8 x 40 1/8 in. (128 x 101.9 cm.)
Executed in 1991. This work is number six from an edition of twenty-five plus five artist's proofs.




Provenance

Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1991



Literature

H. Butin and S. Gronert, eds., Gerhard Richter: Editions 1965-2004: Catalogue Raisonné, Ostfildern, 2004, p. 223, no. 75 (illustrated).
D. Elger, ed., Benjamin Katz: Gerhard Richter at Work, Ostfildern, 2012, p. 90 (another example illustrated).
Zugaben: Sammlung Freunde der Kunstmuseen Krefeld, exh. cat., Krefeld, Museum Haus Lange, 2013, pp. 110, 117 and 156 (illustrated).
Germany divided: Baselitz and his generation, From the Duerckheim Collection, exh. cat., London, British Museum, 2014, p. 24.
H. Butin, S. Gronert and T. Olbricht, eds., Gerhard Richter: Editions 1965-2013, Ostfildern, 2014, pp. 81 and 245, fig. 86, no. 75 (illustrated).
N. MacGregor, Germany: Memories of a Nation, London, 2014, pp. 2 and 562-563 (illustrated).
Gerhard Richter, exh. cat., Prague, Národní galerie v Praze, 2017, p. 111 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Amsterdam, Aschenbach Galerie, Het Krijtwitte Kind, April-May 1993 (another example exhibited).
Kunsthalle Bremen, Gerhard Richter Editionen 1965-1993, October-November 1993, pp. 44 and 158-159, fig. 34, no. 63 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art; Omaha, Joslyn Art Museum and Greensboro, University of North Carolina, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Face-Off: The Portrait in Recent Art, September 1994-May 1995, pp. 28 and 72 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Tokyo, Wako Works of Art, Gerhard Richter Part II: Painting, Mirror Painting, Watercolour, Photograph, Print, May 1996, n.p. (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum and Nuremberg, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Artist's Proof - künstlerisch erprobt, September 1998-March 1999, p. 111, no. 88 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Dallas Museum of Art, Gerhard Richter in Dallas Collections, February-April 2000, p. 4 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Stuttgart, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen; Reykjavík, National Gallery of Iceland; Ishøj, Arken Museum of Modern Art; Bangkok, Silapakorn University Art Gallery; Kuala Lumpur, National Art Gallery; Jakarta, I See Imaging Center; Bandung, Soemardja Gallery; Melbourne, RMIT-Gallery; Sydney Institute; Wellington, City Gallery; Tokushima Prefectural Museum; Tokyo Wonder Site; Seoul, Dealim Museum; Beijing, Creation Art Gallery; Hanoi, National Art Museum; Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art; Warsaw, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle; Bratislava, Municipal Gallery; Brno, House of Art; Katowice, Office for Art Exhibitions; Budapest, Ludwig Múzeum; Gdansk, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art; Kaliningrad State Art Gallery; St. Petersburg, The State Museum of City Sculpture; Moscow, National Centre of Contemporary Art; Kiev, Museum of Russian Art; Tashkent, Art Gallery of Uzbekistan; Tbilisi History Museum; Cork, Lewis Glucksman Gallery; Zagreb, Umjetnički Paviljon u Zagrebu; Osijek, Galerija likovnih umjetnosti; Vilnius, Contemporary Art Center; Tallinn Kumu Art Museum; Mendoza, Espacio Contemporáneo de Arte; Córdoba, Municipal de Bellas Artes Dr. Genaro Pérez; San Juan, Centro Cultural José Amadeo Conte Grand; Rosario Centro Cultural Parque de Espana; La Paz, Museo Nacional de Arte; Santiago, Museo de Artes Visuales; Montevideo, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales; Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Arte Decorativo; Curitiba, Casa Andrade Muricy; Caixa Cultural Salvador; Caixa Cultural Brasilia; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo; Porto Alegre, Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul Ado Malagoli; Quito, Museo de le Ciudad; Bogotá, Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango del Banco de la República; Museo de Arte de Lima and San Luis Potosí, Centro de las Artes; Gerhard Richter: Übersicht, September 2000-June 2013, p. 23 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Bremen, Neues Museum Weserburg, Ohne Zögern: Die Sammlung Olbricht Teil 2, June-September 2001 (another example exhibited).
Kunstmuseum Bonn; Kunstmuseum Luzern; Kunsthalle Emden; Tübingen, Kunsthalle and Museum der Modern Salzburg, Gerhard Richter: Printed! Druckgrafik, Foto-Editionen und Künstlerbücher, June 2004-October 2005 (another example exhibited).
Kanazawa, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Gerhard Richter: Painting as Mirror, September-October 2005, pp. 16-17 and 31 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Museumberg Flensburg, Gerhard Richter: Portraits, May-July 2006, p. 249, no. 4 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Düsseldorf, Galerie Schönewald und Beuse, Gerhard Richter: Ausgewählte Editionen, August-December 2008 (another example exhibited).
Frankfurt, Städel Museum, Erste Wahl: Sammlung Deutsche Bank im Städel Museum, October-November 2008 (another example exhibited).
Dallas Museum of Art, Two x Two x Ten: Celebrating Ten years of Two by Two for Aids and Art, October 2008-January 2009 (another example exhibited).
Kunsthal Rotterdam, Van Dürer tot Kiefer: Vijf eeuwen kunst op papier, July-September 2009 (another example exhibited).
Oberstdorf, Kunsthaus Villa Jauss, Wege in der Gegenwart: Gerhard Richter, July-October 2009 (another example exhibited).
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Until Now: Collecting the New (1960-2010), April-August 2010 (another example exhibited).
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; New Orleans Museum of Art; San Diego, Museum of Contemporary Art and Austin, The Blanton Museum of Art, Lifelike, February 2012-September 2013, pp. 74 and 186, pl. 30 (illustrated).
Beirut Art Center, Gerhard Richter: Beirut, April-June 2012, pp. 122-123 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Berlin, me Collectors Room, Gerhard Richter: Editionen 1965–2011, February-May 2012 (another example exhibited).
Dublin, RHA Galleries, Royal Hibernian Academy, Richter and Polke, Works on Paper from the Kunstmuseen Krefeld, January-March 2013 (another example exhibited).
Munich, Kunstbau München, Gerhard Richter: Atlas – Mikromega, October 2013-February 2014 (another example exhibited).
Düsseldorf, K20 Grabbeplatz, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Gerhard Richter – Die Kunst im Plural, February-March 2014 (another example exhibited).
Berlin, me Collectors Room, Exotica and 4 other cases of the self, September 2014-February 2015, p. 18 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Munich, Galerie Oliver Schweden, Gerhard Richter: Multiples, Posters und Übermalte, September-November 2015 (another example exhibited).
Essen, Folkwang Museum, Gerhard Richter: Die Editionen, April-July 2017, p. 14 (another example exhibited).
Brisbane, Queensland Art Gallery, Gerhard Richter: The Life of Images, October 2017-February 2018, pp. 17 and 155 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Dallas Art Museum, From Düsseldorf to Dallas: Postwar German Art in the DMA Collection, October 2018-January 2019 (another example exhibited).
Berlin, me Collectors Room, Kirchner - Richter - Burtgert, September-November 2019 (another example exhibited).
Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Freunde der Kunst - 20 Jahre sammeln, April-October 2023 (another example exhibited).



Further details

We thank Mr. Hubertus Butin for the information he has kindly provided on this work.
Artist:Gerhard Richter (1932)
Art style:Contemporary art
Place of origin:Western Europe, Germany, Europe
Auction house category:Photography
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