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GERHARD RICHTER (B. 1932)

Lot 38
05.03.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1380936
Lot 38 | GERHARD RICHTER (B. 1932)
Estimate value
£ 1 500 000 – 2 000 000
GERHARD RICHTER (B. 1932)
Gilbert & George
signed, numbered and dated ‘379 Richter, 1975’ (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
31 ½ x 39 3/8in. (80 x 100cm.)
Painted in 1975




Provenance

Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf.
Rolf and Lore Schloen Collection, Germany.
Zwirner & Wirth Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2002.



Literature

K. Honnef, Gerhard Richter, Recklinghausen 1976 (installation view, Konrad Fischer Galerie in 1975 illustrated, p. 59.)
A. Hinrich Murken, 'Auf der Suche nach der Wirklick, Das Menschenbildnis im künstlerischen Werk von Gerhard Richter' in Die Kunst und das schöne Heim, 1977, no. 89, 1977, no. 8 (illustrated, p. 32).
J. Harten and D. Elger (eds.), Gerhard Richter: Bilder Paintings 1962-1985, exh. cat., Dusseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, 1986, p. 386, no. 379 (illustrated, p. 191).
Gerhard Richter, exh. cat., Munich, Städische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, 1989-1990, p. 11.
Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (ed.), Gerhard Richter, Werkübersicht/Catalogue Raisonné: 1962-1993, vol. III, Ostfildern-Ruit 1993, p. 167, no. 379 (illustrated in colour, p. 68).
D. Elger, Gerhard Richter: Maler, Cologne 2002, p. 278.
A. Zweite, Gerhard Richter: Catalogue Raisonné 1993-2004, Dusseldorf 2005, p. 38.
H. Butin, Gerhard Richter Portraits, Flensburg 2006, pp. 213 and 254, no. 65 (illustrated in colour pp. 229 and 288).
H. Friedel, Gerhard Richter Atlas, London 2006, p. 9.
D. Elger, Gerhard Richter: Maler, Cologne, 2008, pp. 24, 249 and 395.
D. Elger (ed.), Gerhard Richter Porträt Dr. Knobloch (Patrimonia 344), Berlin, 2009, pp. 18 and 24.
Gerhard Richter Portraits: Painting Appearances, exh. cat., London, National Portrait Gallery, 2009, p. 171 (illustrated in colour, p. 127).
D. Elger (ed.), Gerhard Richter Catalogue Raisonné, Nos. 198-388, vol. II, 1968-1976, Berlin 2017, no. 379 (illustrated in colour, p. 644).



Exhibited

Dusseldorf, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Gerhard Richter, 1975.
Frankfurt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Kunst nach 45 aus Frankfurter Privatbesitz, 1983, p. 422 (illustrated in colour, p. 307).
Bolzano, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gerhard Richter: Malerei Pittura, 1996, pp. 22 and 55, no. 22 (illustrated in colour, p. 23).
New York, Zwirner & Wirth, Paintings from Germany: Palermo, Polke and Richter, 2002.
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