Sale: 500 / Evening Sale, July 17. 2020 in Munich Lot 237

 

237
Gerhard Richter
Grün-Blau-Rot, 1993.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 250,000 / $ 270,000
Sold:
€ 312,500 / $ 337,500

(incl. surcharge)
Grün-Blau-Rot. 1993.
Oil on canvas.
Butin 81. Elger 789-45. Verso signed, dated and inscribed "789-45", and with the stamped inscription "Edition for Parkett No. 35" on the stretcher. 29.5 x 39.5 cm (11.6 x 15.5 in).
Released by the art magazine Parkett, Zürich (issue no. 35, March 1993).
• Unique object
• A magical illusion of beautiful painting.
• Richter redefines the theme of abstraction in painting through the employment of the squeegee technique.
• Richter makes coincidence a creative principle.
• Green-Blue-Red is among the artist's most sought-after series
.

PROVENANCE: Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.

EXHIBITION: Silent & Violent: Selected Artists' Editions, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, USA. March 19 - August 31, 1995.
Collaborations with Parkett: 1984 to Now, MoMA, New York, USA, April 05 - June 05, 2001.
Beautiful Productions: Parkett Editions since 1984, Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin, Ireland, June 21 - October 28, 2002.
Parkett - 20 Years of Artists' Collaborations, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, November 26, 2004 - February 13, 2005.
200 Artworks - 25 Years, Artists' Editions for Parkett, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, September 04 - September 26, 2009.

LITERATURE: Galerie Ludorff: 40 Jahre 40 Meisterwerke, Düsseldorf 2015, p. 97.
Folkwang Musem (editor), Gerhard Richter: Die Editionen, Essen, 2017, p. 58.
Hubertus Butin, Gerhard Richter. Unikate in Serie / Unique Pieces in Series, Cologne, 2017, pp. 136-137.




237
Gerhard Richter
Grün-Blau-Rot, 1993.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 250,000 / $ 270,000
Sold:
€ 312,500 / $ 337,500

(incl. surcharge)