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Cage (P19-2) - Unsigned Print by Gerhard Richter 2020 - MyArtBroker

Cage (P19-2)
Unsigned Print

Gerhard Richter

£10,500-£16,000Value Indicator

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¥2,050,000-¥3,130,000 Value Indicator

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100 x 100cm, Edition of 200, Giclée print

Medium: Giclée print
Edition size: 200
Year: 2020
Size: H 100cm x W 100cm
Signed: No
Format: Unsigned Print
Last Auction: November 2024
Value Trend:
-12% AAGR

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Location
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Buyer Paid
November 2024
Uppsala Auktionskammare
Sweden
N/A
N/A
N/A
September 2024
Phillips London
United Kingdom
March 2024
Christie's London
United Kingdom
November 2023
Forum Auctions London
United Kingdom
June 2023
Phillips London
United Kingdom
January 2023
SBI Art Auction
Japan
November 2021
Sotheby's Paris
France
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The value of Gerhard Richter’s Cage (P19-2) (2020) is estimated to be worth between £10,500 and £16,000. This Giclée Print artwork, part of an edition of 200, has shown consistent value growth since its first sale in June 2021. Over the past 12 months, the average selling price was £10,299, across 2 total sales. In the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £8,000 in June 2023 to £25,200 in June 2021. The average annual growth rate of this work is -8%. This is a popular work with 10 total sales to date.

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Meaning & Analysis

Like its close counterparts in the Cage Grid and Cage f.ff series, Cage (P19-2) references Richter’s practice of using large, home-made squeegees to dynamic effect in his paintings. In this particular print, Richter channels the experimental and atonal compositions of American composer and artist John Cage - whose name it references - into a canvas that comprises a series of carefully applied, lateral sections of oil paint. Combining nature’s greens and turquoises with rust-coloured and metallic hues, the work evokes decay of both natural and man-made origin.

This print, like many of Richter’s abstract works, is testament to his fierce rejection of artistic norms, and his early training in socialist realist painting. Bearing the symbolic hallmarks of propaganda art, socialist realism was designed to vaunt the achievements of the former German Democratic Republic, a satellite state of the former Soviet Union. Constrained in terms of the subjects he could depict and the materials he could use, Richter references his artistic formation in the GDR in his often-repeated phrase: the ‘death of painting’. Describing his own artistic goals, both on a methodological and conceptual level, this phrase is very much present in this image: gone is tradition, and all the tightly-defined representational rules that come with it.

  • 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.