Contemporary Day Auction

Contemporary Day Auction

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Collecting Passions: 20th Century Masterworks from an Important Private Collection

Gerhard Richter

Abstraktes Bild

Session begins in

May 16, 02:00 PM GMT

Estimate

1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD

Bid

900,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Collecting Passions: 20th Century Masterworks from an Important Private Collection

Gerhard Richter

b. 1932


Abstraktes Bild

signed, dated 1992 and numbered 775-3 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

20 by 18 ⅛ in.

51 by 46.2 cm.

Executed in 1992.

Please note the correct estimate of this work is $1,200,000 - 1,800,000.

Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London

Private Collection, Switzerland

Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zurich

Elizabeth Corob, London (acquired from the above in 1996)

Sotheby's London, 29 June 2021, lot 158 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exh. Cat. (and catalogue raisonné), Bonn, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Gerhard Richter: 1962-1993, Volume III, Bonn 1993, n.p., no. 775-3, illustrated in colour 

Dietmar Elger, Gerhard Richter. Catalogue Raisonné, Volume 4, 1988-1994, Ostfildern 2015, p. 489, no. 775-3, illustrated in color