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Flow (P4) - Unsigned Print by Gerhard Richter 2014 - MyArtBroker

Flow (P4)
Unsigned Print

Gerhard Richter

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45 x 45cm, Edition of 500, Digital Print

Medium: Digital Print

Edition size: 500

Year: 2014

Size: H 45cm x W 45cm

Signed: No

Format: Unsigned Print

Last Auction: April 2022

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Auction Date
Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
April 2022
Karl & Faber
Germany
$2,700
$3,150
$3,950
March 2020
Sotheby's London
United Kingdom
June 2018
Sotheby's Milan
Italy
September 2017
Sotheby's London
United Kingdom
June 2017
Ketterer Kunst Hamburg
Germany
January 2017
Lempertz, Cologne
Germany
September 2016
Sotheby's London
United Kingdom
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Gerhard Richter's Flow (P4) from 2014, a digital print, is currently estimated to be worth between £1,550 and £2,350. This artwork, available in a limited edition of 500, has been sold 7 times at auction since its entry to the market in September 2016. Over the past five years, the hammer price has varied, with an average annual growth rate of 0%. The average return to the seller is £2,144.

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Meaning & Analysis

A far cry from Richter’s Cage Prints, Cage f.ff and Cage Grid series, each of which reference the artist’s 2006 ‘Cage’ paintings, this work appears all the more open to the constructive powers of error - a force Richter refers to lovingly as ‘chance’. Unlike the rigid, procedural abstracts produced with home-made squeegees, such as Cage Grid I Single Part L (2011) or Cage f.ff II (2015), Flow (P4) is a print imbued with a sense of fluidity. Product of an altogether more ‘loose’ approach, the print is dominated by yellow, green, red, and black sections of paint; a work of painterly alchemy, it evokes the chemical basis of the diluted oil paint used to create it, as well as the independent movement and interaction of these hues and chemicals in the moments directly following their first application.

Born in Dresden in 1932, Richter’s early contacts with art and the art world were ideologically and stylistically conflicting, and have gone on to influence his deconstructive approach in profound ways. Richter’s first known work was a mural entitled Communion With Picasso (1955) - a piece that suggested the artist’s profound influence by modernism. This work, however, was painted for the cantine of the Dresden Academy, where Richter received a strict, ‘socialist realist’ training. At the Academy, Richter was duty bound to create visual representations of the ‘workers’ struggle’, which were designed to fuel the East German consciousness with hopeful images vaunting the benefits of communism. In 1959, Richter visited the dokumenta II exhibition in the West German city of Kassel; later, having escaped to the West in 1961, he studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, later pioneering a style named Capitalist Realism.