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Abstraktes Foto - Signed Print by Gerhard Richter 1989 - MyArtBroker

Abstraktes Foto
Signed Print

Gerhard Richter

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74 x 100cm, Edition of 50, Photographic print

Medium: Photographic print

Edition size: 50

Year: 1989

Size: H 74cm x W 100cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

Last Auction: March 2021

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Auction Date
Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
March 2021
Christie's New York
United States
N/A
N/A
N/A
December 2020
Sotheby's New York
United States
April 2020
Sotheby's London
United Kingdom
January 2018
Phillips London
United Kingdom
October 2017
Phillips New York
United States
October 2015
Phillips New York
United States
April 2014
Christie's New York
United States
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The value of Gerhard Richter's Abstraktes Foto, a signed photographic print from 1989, is estimated to be worth between £6,000 and £9,000. This artwork has shown consistent value growth and has an auction history of 11 total sales since its entry to the market on 29th April 2004. The hammer price in the last 12 months has ranged from £6,476 on 10th March 2021 to £9,634 on 18th December 2020. The average annual growth rate of this work is 5%. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 50.

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Meaning & Analysis

Like other works featured in Richter’s Abstract collection, such as Abstraktes Bild (1991) and Abstraktes Bild (P1) (1990), this print foregrounds the end product of the German artist’s loose, experimental approach to painting and composition. A swooping blend of dark grey and white, the print has its origins in Richter’s home-made squeegees. Made by hand by the artist’s two assistants at his studio on the outskirts of Cologne, Germany, these squeegees are adorned with varying hues of oil paint. They are then used to cover a base layer of block colour, applied directly to the canvas. The hues used are always ‘classics’, such cadmium and titanium white: working with earthy tones would diminish a given painting’s dramatic effect, Richter’s assistants have explained.

Referencing a painting completed during the late 1980s, the print was issued during a tumultuous period of the Dresden-born artist’s career. Just a year earlier, in 1988, Richter completed a series of 15 paintings entitled 18 October 1977. Ambiguous in nature, and characteristic of Richter’s signature approach to realism (often dubbed the Richter ‘blur’), the series portrays members of the Rote Armee Fraktion, or Baader Meinhof Gang: a terrorist organisation active in Germany and Europe between 1970 and 1998. The date referenced by the series title – the 18th of October 1977 – marks that on which three founding members of the group were found dead in their cells at Stuttgart’s high-security Stammheim Prison. These images, like many of Richter’s works, caused a storm for their uncompromising treatment of an uncomfortable episode in recent German history.