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Auto (Car) - Signed Print by Gerhard Richter 1969 - MyArtBroker

Auto (Car)
Signed Print

Gerhard Richter

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36 x 46cm, Edition of 120, Lithograph

Medium: Lithograph
Edition size: 120
Year: 1969
Size: H 36cm x W 46cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
Last Auction: June 2017

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Location
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June 2017
Van Ham Fine Art Auctions
Germany
$3,400
$4,000
$5,000
June 2015
Van Ham Fine Art Auctions
Germany
December 2014
Ketterer Kunst Hamburg
Germany
June 2012
Swann Galleries
United States
October 2011
Ketterer Kunst Hamburg
Germany
January 2010
Lempertz, Cologne
Germany
June 2009
Swann Galleries
United States
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The value of Gerhard Richter's Auto (Car) (signed) is estimated to be worth between £3,350 and £5,000. This lithograph print, created in 1969, has an auction history of 11 total sales since its initial entry to the market on 6th April 2004. There have been no sales in the last 12 months. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 120.

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Meaning & Analysis

In this image, Richter turns his attention toward an object steeped in the consumerist ideologies of Western Capitalism of the immediate Post-War period - the car. Richter makes use of the aerial view with which he has experimented in his Swiss Alps and photorealist Cloud prints, harnessing its representative powers to question traditional art historical perspective.  All is not what it seems, however: this work is adapted from a photograph shot through a window, but the car at the centre of the image is in fact a model, mounted on the window frame. ‘Set up’ in the same vein as a model for a stage set, this work sees Richter experiment with composition in a playful manner.

All the more whimsical than the artist's serious, architecturally-focused paintings - such as Bahnhof Hannover (1967) - Auto (Car) - this print suggests Richter’s glee at having found himself in an entirely new environment, wholly dissimilar from that in which he grew up. In 1961, Dresden-born Richter escaped the German Democratic Republic - or ‘East Germany’ - just a few weeks before the building of the Berlin Wall. He would never see his parents again. Settling in the affluent Rheinland city of Düsseldorf, West Germany, Richter - then just 29 - began studying at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Karl Otto Götz, a pioneer of the Art Informel movement.

  • Hailing from Germany, Gerhard Richter has not been confined to one visual style. A testament to versatility and artistic diversity, Richter's work spans from photorealism to abstraction and conceptual art, and his portfolio is rich in varied media. From creating bold canvases to working on glass to distort the lines between wall-based art and sculpture, Richter has honed in on the blur technique to impart an ambiguity on his creations. To this day, Richter is one of the most recognised artists of the 20th century with his art having been presented in exhibitions worldwide. His global impact underscores his legacy as a trailblazer of artistic exploration.