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Ifrit (P8) - Unsigned Print by Gerhard Richter 2014 - MyArtBroker

Ifrit (P8)
Unsigned Print

Gerhard Richter

£2,700-£4,050Value Indicator

$5,500-$8,500 Value Indicator

$5,000-$7,500 Value Indicator

¥26,000-¥40,000 Value Indicator

3,100-4,700 Value Indicator

$29,000-$45,000 Value Indicator

¥530,000-¥790,000 Value Indicator

$3,700-$5,500 Value Indicator

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Medium: Digital Print

Edition size: 500

Year: 2014

Size: H 33cm x W 44cm

Signed: No

Format: Unsigned Print

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The value of Gerhard Richter's Ifrit (P8) is estimated to be worth between £2,700 and £4,050. In the last 12 months, the average selling price was £2,687 across 1 sale. This digital print has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 2%. Over the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £2,687 in September 2024 to £4,480 in June 2022. This artwork has a strong auction history, having been sold 22 times since its initial sale in June 2015. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 500.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
September 2024Phillips New York United States
June 2024Van Ham Fine Art Auctions Germany
October 2023Van Ham Fine Art Auctions Germany
August 2023Bonhams Online United Kingdom
June 2022Lempertz, Cologne Germany
March 2022Sotheby's Online United Kingdom
April 2021Phillips New York United States

Meaning & Analysis

Whilst other prints in Richter’s Abstract collection make tangible and visual reference to his innovative use of large, home-made ‘squeegees’ as a means to apply paint to a canvas surface, Ifrit (P8) testifies to the artist’s use, from 2010, of a new medium: lacquer. Resembling the dynamic and alchemical effects produced by marbling during the 19th century, this work sees Richter engage, once again, with non-representation and abstraction. Quite unlike works inspired by Richter’s Atlas - an enormous compilation of image-based materials compiled over the course of the artist’s long and epoch-defining career - Ifrit (P8) takes a deep stare into the creative possibilities afforded by chance, error, and a loose hand.


Deviating from his photographic, historically referential works, which include the iconic images Onkel Rudi (1965) and September (2005), Richter makes a roundabout return to his time at art school during the 1950s and 60s. At the Dresden Academy - an institution then under the control of East Germany’s ruling SED party and firmly within the Soviet sphere of influence - Richter was restricted to reproducing ‘socialist realist’ styles, and large-scale political murals. This experience - coupled with a visit to the 1959 Documenta exhibition, where Richter was introduced to ground-breaking Western art, and the likes of Jackson Pollock and Pablo Picasso - had a lasting effect. Constantly calling for the ‘death’ of traditional painting, Richter has continued to challenge artistic norms and boundaries.