Lot 220
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Gerhard Richter
Vermalung (grau), 1970/71.
Oil, painted with the fingers, on poly paper
Estimate:
€ 35,000 / $ 37,450 Sold:
€ 46,990 / $ 50,279 (incl. surcharge)
Vermalung (grau). 1970/71.
Oil, painted with the fingers, on poly paper.
Butin 45. Signed, dated "70" and inscribed with direction arrows on the reverse. Unnumbered copy aside from the series of 150 unique objects (of which 20 were destroyed). 39.5 x 39 cm (15.5 x 15.3 in).
The serially made works differ in terms of the monochrome color fields that fill the manually applied mesh of lines. This way each work is of unique character.
According to Mr. Butin, there are two possible explanations for the date "70": the work was made beyond the edition and was erroneously dated "70" at a later point, or the work was actually made before the edition, as a sort of proof copy. The exact reason can not be identified at this late point.
• Of unique character.
• The "Inpaintings" were a key theme of Richter's art in the early 1970s.
• In the "Inpaintings", Richter explores and analyzes an abstract gestural painting.
Accompanied by a written expertise issued by Hubertus Butin on July 9, 2020.
PROVENANCE: Private collection Southern Germany
Private collection Southern Germany.
LITERATURE: Gerhard Richter. Editionen 1965-1993, ex. cat. Kunsthalle Bremen, October 24 - November 21, 1993, with a register of the editions, cat.no. 37, p. 118, with illu. (different copy).
Lempertz, Cologne, auction on June 19, 2020, lot 9.
Oil, painted with the fingers, on poly paper.
Butin 45. Signed, dated "70" and inscribed with direction arrows on the reverse. Unnumbered copy aside from the series of 150 unique objects (of which 20 were destroyed). 39.5 x 39 cm (15.5 x 15.3 in).
The serially made works differ in terms of the monochrome color fields that fill the manually applied mesh of lines. This way each work is of unique character.
According to Mr. Butin, there are two possible explanations for the date "70": the work was made beyond the edition and was erroneously dated "70" at a later point, or the work was actually made before the edition, as a sort of proof copy. The exact reason can not be identified at this late point.
• Of unique character.
• The "Inpaintings" were a key theme of Richter's art in the early 1970s.
• In the "Inpaintings", Richter explores and analyzes an abstract gestural painting.
Accompanied by a written expertise issued by Hubertus Butin on July 9, 2020.
PROVENANCE: Private collection Southern Germany
Private collection Southern Germany.
LITERATURE: Gerhard Richter. Editionen 1965-1993, ex. cat. Kunsthalle Bremen, October 24 - November 21, 1993, with a register of the editions, cat.no. 37, p. 118, with illu. (different copy).
Lempertz, Cologne, auction on June 19, 2020, lot 9.
With his "Vermalungen" (Inpaintings), which were created between 1971 and 1973 in various versions as editions, the painting of the entire surface results in "a chaos of endless movements, so that the strips of color drawn across all canvases are inextricably intertwined. The movements seem to have no beginning and no end, they obey no comprehensible rhythm and form no color scheme." (Butin, p. 34). Despite this inner, apparently final interdependence, each individual part, with its random excerpt undergoes a metamorphosis after the separation of the entire work and becomes an independent work that liberates itself from the original context. [SM]
220
Gerhard Richter
Vermalung (grau), 1970/71.
Oil, painted with the fingers, on poly paper
Estimate:
€ 35,000 / $ 37,450 Sold:
€ 46,990 / $ 50,279 (incl. surcharge)