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1968 46.6 cm x 67.2 cm Editions CR: 14

Offset print on lightweight card

Black offset print based on five of his own manipulated photographs created jointly with Sigmar Polke.

Edition:

  • 200 copies, signed in pencil: Richter Polke or Polke Richter, dated at bottom right, numbered at bottom left, printed subtitle: 5 Phasen einer von Polke und Richter vorgenommenen Umwandlung. Das Massiv wurde am 26. April 68 für die Dauer von zwei Stunden in eine Kugel verwandelt., underneath, in smaller type: edition 16 galerie rené block 1968.
  • 30 copies, signed in pencil, dated at bottom right, numbered in Roman numerals at bottom left.
  • 1 trial proof, unmarked.

Van Ham Kunstauktionen, Cologne, Germany: 23 March 2023

Notes:

Edition: 186/200

Estimate: EUR 2,500 – 3,500 USD 2,699 – 3,779
Sold For:
€ 5,280 (incl. buyer’s premium)
USD 5,702

Rago Arts and Auction Center, Lambertville, USA: 10 November 2018

Notes:

Edition: 32/200

Estimate: USD 1,000 – 1,500
Sold For:
USD 2,500 (incl. buyer’s premium)

This artwork was shown in the following exhibitions:

This artwork is included in the following publications:

Title
Author
Date
Gerhard Richter: Painting After All
Wagstaff, Sheena / Buchloh, Benjamin H. D.
2020

Publisher

Yale University Press, New Haven

Year

2020

Details

Hardback, 269 pages

ISBN

9781588396853

Language

English

Category

Solo Exhibitions

Notes

This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition "Gerhard Richter: Painting After All", 4 March 2020 - 5 July 2020, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and 14 August 2020 - 19 January 2021, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Exhibitions

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Gerhard Richter. Catalogue Raisonné. Volume 2: 1968-1976, nos. 198 - 388
Elger, Dietmar
2017

Publisher

Hatje Cantz, Berlin

Year

2017

Details

Hardback, 656 pages

ISBN

9783775719797

Language

German, English

Category

Monographs

As part of a comprehensive scholarly reassessment, in 2017 art historian and director of the Gerhard Richter Archive Dresden Dietmar Elger published the second of five planned volumes of Gerhard Richter's Catalogue Raisonné. ...

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The Art of Gerhard Richter. Hermeneutics, Images, Meaning
Lotz, Christian
2015

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic, London

Year

2015

Details

Hardback, 237 pages

ISBN

9781472589019

Language

English

Category

Monographs

...

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Von Warhol bis Richter. Grafik zwischen Foto und Druck. Museum Folkwang
Burg, Tobias / Bezzola, Tobia
2014

Publisher

Steidl, Göttingen

Year

2014

Details

Softcover, 96 pages

ISBN

9783869308425

Language

German

Category

Group Exhibitions

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...

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Gerhard Richter: Editions 1965-2013
Butin, Hubertus / Gronert, Stefan / Olbricht, Thomas
2014

Publisher

Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern

Year

2014

Editor

Butin, Hubertus / Gronert, Stefan / Olbricht, Thomas

Details

Hardback, 337 pages

ISBN

9783775735193, 3775735194

Language

English

Category

Monographs

The publication Gerhard Richter. Editions 1965 – 2013 updates the catalogue raisonné of his editions that was published ten years earlier. This book includes additionally 35 new and hitherto unknown works

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Gerhard Richter: Editionen 1965-2013
Butin, Hubertus / Gronert, Stefan / Olbricht, Thomas
2014

Publisher

Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern

Year

2014

Editor

Butin, Hubertus / Gronert, Stefan / Olbricht, Thomas

Details

Hardback, 337 pages

ISBN

9783775735186, 3775735186

Language

German

Category

Monographs

The publication Gerhard Richter. Editionen 1965 – 2013 updates the catalogue raisonné of his editions that was published ten years earlier. This book includes additionally 35 new and hitherto unknown works

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Zugaben. Sammlung Freunde der Kunstmuseen Krefeld
Hentschel, Martin / Röder, Sabine / Kathstede, Gregor / Teymourian-Pesch, Anahita
2013

Publisher

Kerber, Bielefeld

Year

2013

Details

Hardback, 156 pages

ISBN

9783866788954

Language

German

Category

Group Exhibitions

Exhibitions

...

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Gerhard Richter, Panorama: une rétrospective = a retrospective
Godfrey, Mark / Serota, Nicholas / Brill, Dorothée / Morineau, Camille / Borchardt-Hume, Achim / Dickson, Amy / Haidu, Rachel / Mehring, Christine
2012

Publisher

Édition du Centre Pompidou, Paris

Year

2012

Editor

Godfrey, Mark / Serota, Nicholas / Brill, Dorothée / Morineau, Camille

Details

Hardback, 304 pages

ISBN

978-2844265746, 284426574X

Language

French, English

Category

Solo Exhibitions

Exhibitions

...

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Gerhard Richter: Panorama: Retrospektive
Godfrey, Mark / Serota, Nicholas / Brill, Dorothée / Morineau, Camille / Borchardt-Hume, Achim / Dickson, Amy / Haidu, Rachel / Mehring, Christine
2012

Publisher

Prestel, München

Year

2012

Editor

Godfrey, Mark / Serota, Nicholas / Brill, Dorothée / Morineau, Camille

Details

Hardback, 305 pages

ISBN

9783791351896

Language

German

Category

Solo Exhibitions

Exhibitions

...

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Gerhard Richter. Landschaften
Butin, Hubertus / Bätschmann, Oskar / Elger, Dietmar
2011

Publisher

Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit

Year

2011

Details

Hardback, 192 pages

ISBN

9783775726382

Language

German

Category

Monographs

...

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Gerhard Richter. Bilder einer Epoche
Schneede, Uwe M. / Butin, Hubertus / Elger, Dietmar / Rübel, Dietmar / Westheider, Ortrud
2011

Publisher

Hirmer Verlag, München

Year

2011

Details

Hardback, 214 pages

ISBN

9783777434513

Language

German

Category

Solo Exhibitions

Exhibitions

Gerhard Richter. Bilder einer Epoche was published on the occasion of the exhibition at Bucerius Kunstforum in Hamburg in 2011. Both the exhibition and the catalogue focus on Richter’s paintings of the 1960s

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Gerhard Richter: Panorama: A Retrospective
Godfrey, Mark / Serota, Nicholas / Brill, Dorothée / Morineau, Camille / Borchardt-Hume, Achim / Dickson, Amy / Haidu, Rachel / Mehring, Christine
2011
Gerhard Richter. Images of an Era
Schneede, Uwe M. / Butin, Hubertus / Elger, Dietmar / Rübel, Dietmar / Westheider, Ortrud
2011

Publisher

Hirmer Publishers, Munich copublished by Heni Publishing, London and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY and Paris

Year

2011

Details

Hardback, 214 pages

ISBN

9783777450018

Language

English

Category

Solo Exhibitions

Exhibitions

Gerhard Richter. Images of an Era was published on the occasion of the exhibition at Bucerius Kunstforum in Hamburg in 2011. Both the exhibition and the catalogue focus on Richter’s paintings of the 1960s

...
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Neue Realitäten. FotoGrafik von Warhol bis Havekost
Schalhorn, Andreas / Butin, Andreas
2011
Gerhard Richter. Landscapes
Butin, Hubertus / Bätschmann, Oskar / Elger, Dietmar
2011

Publisher

Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit

Year

2011

Details

Hardback, 192 pages

ISBN

9783775726399

Language

English

Category

Monographs

...

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Gerhard Richter: Übersicht
Schubert, Sabine / Heinze, Helmut
2010

Publisher

Ernst-Rietschel-Kulturring, Pulsnitz

Year

2010

Details

Softcover, 35 pages

ISBN

9783981280944

Language

German

Category

Solo Exhibitions

Exhibitions

...

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Gerhard Richter: Sils
Richter, Gerhard / Obrist, Hans Ulrich / Bloch, Peter André
2009

Publisher

Ivorypress, Madrid

Year

2009

Editor

Obrist, Hans Ulrich

Details

Softcover, 86 pages

ISBN

9780955961359

Language

English, German, Spanish

Category

Artist's Books

Notes

New edition

Gerhard Richter’s artist's book Sils is named after the Swiss village of the same name, which he visited regularly for many years. Richter has approached the Sils landscape from various angles

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Gerhard Richter. A Life in Painting
Elger, Dietmar
2009

Publisher

University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

Year

2009

Details

Hardback, 408 pages

ISBN

9780226203232

Language

English

Category

Monographs

Gerhard Richter has been widely regarded as a publicity shy artist. However, the biography Gerhard Richter. A Life in Painting gives an insight into Richter’s personal history as well as into the development of his artistic œuvre.

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Gerhard Richter, Maler
Elger, Dietmar
2008

Publisher

DuMont, Köln

Year

2008

Details

Softcover, 415 pages

ISBN

9783832190651

Language

German

Category

Monographs

Notes

Corrected and extended new edition.

Gerhard Richter has been widely regarded as a publicity shy artist. However, the biography Gerhard Richter, Maler gives an insight into Richter’s personal history as well as into the development of his artistic œuvre.

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Gerhard Richter: Editions 1965-2004
Butin, Hubertus / Gronert, Stefan (ed.)
2004
Gerhard Richter: Editionen 1965-2004
Butin, Hubertus / Gronert, Stefan
2004
Gerhard Richter, Maler
Elger, Dietmar
2002

Publisher

DuMont, Köln

Year

2002

Details

Hardback, 420 pages

ISBN

9783832158484

Language

German

Category

Monographs

Gerhard Richter has been widely regarded as a publicity shy artist. However, the biography Gerhard Richter, Maler gives an insight into Richter’s personal history as well as into the development of his artistic œuvre.

...
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Gerhard Richter: Sils
Richter, Gerhard / Obrist, Hans Ulrich / Bloch, Peter André
2002

Publisher

D.A.P., Distributed Art Publishers, New York, NY

Year

2002

Editor

Obrist, Hans Ulrich

Details

Hardback, 86 pages

ISBN

1891024558

Language

English, German, French

Category

Artist's Books

Notes

New edition

Gerhard Richter’s artist's book Sils is named after the Swiss village of the same name, which he visited regularly for many years. Richter has approached the Sils landscape from various angles

...
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Gerhard Richter. Werke aus Aachener Sammlungen
Brusis, Ilse / Murken, Hinrich / Becker, Wolfgang / Elger, Dietmar / Engels, Maria / Gold, Anne
1999

Publisher

Kunst aus Nordrhein-Westfalen, Aachen

Year

1999

Details

Softcover, 90 pages

ISBN

3000052488

Language

German

Category

Solo Exhibitions

Exhibitions

...

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Alpenblick: Die zeitgenössische Kunst und das Alpine
Kos, Wolfgang / Pracher, Jeanette
1997

Publisher

Stroemfeld / Roter Stern, Frankfurt a. M.

Year

1997

Editor

Kos, Wolfgang / Kunsthalle Wien

Details

Softcover, 248 pages

ISBN

3878776667

Language

German

Category

Group Exhibitions

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...

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Gerhard Richter: Sils
Richter, Gerhard / Obrist, Hans Ulrich / Bloch, Peter André
1992

Publisher

Oktagon, München

Year

1992

Editor

Obrist, Hans Ulrich

Details

Hardback, 86 pages

ISBN

3927789321

Language

English, German, French

Category

Artist's Books

Exhibitions

Gerhard Richter’s artist's book Sils is named after the Swiss village of the same name, which he visited regularly for many years. Richter has approached the Sils landscape from various angles

...
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Zu Richters Oktober-Bildern
Butin, Hubertus
1991

Publisher

Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln

Year

1991

Details

Softcover, 64 pages

ISBN

3883751413

Language

German

Category

Monographs

...

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Zustände = States. Beispiele deutscher Graphik nach 1960
Schilling, Jürgen
1990

Publisher

Kettler, Bönen

Year

1990

Details

Hardback, 208 pages

ISBN

3925608095

Language

English, German

Category

Group Exhibitions

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...

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Um 1968. Konkrete Utopien in Kunst und Gesellschaft
Syring, Marie Luise / Harten, Jürgen / Gentilini, Giovanni / Lebel, Jean-Jacques / Dreßen, Wolfgang / Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. / Bussmann, Georg / Schmidt, Hans-Werner / Felix, Zdenek / Rennert, Susanne / Brock, Bazon / Sauerbier, S. D. / Härle, Clemens-Carl
1990

Publisher

DuMont, Köln

Year

1990

Details

Softcover, 260 pages

ISBN

3770124707

Language

German

Category

Group Exhibitions

...

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Gerhard Richter. Bilder = Paintings 1962 - 1985
Harten, Jürgen / Hering, Karl-Heinz / Honisch, Dieter / Loock, Ulrich / Ronte, Dieter / Elger, Dietmar
1986
Dada - Montage - Konzept. Berlinische Galerie
Prinz, Ursula / Roters, Eberhard
1982

Publisher

Berlinische Galerie, Berlin

Year

1982

Details

Softcover, 64 pages

Language

German

Category

Group Exhibitions

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...

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Gerhard Richter. Das grafische Werk
1976

Publisher

BP AG, Hamburg

Year

1976

Details

Softcover, 20 pages

Language

German

Category

Solo Exhibitions

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Grafische Techniken
Block, René / Gerstein, Barbara / Gronau, Dietrich
1973

Publisher

Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin

Year

1973

Details

Softcover, 248 pages

Language

German

Category

Group Exhibitions

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Gerhard Richter. 36. Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione tedesco = 36. Biennale in Venedig, Deutscher Pavilion = 36. Biennale in Venice, German Pavilion
Honisch, Dieter / Helms, Dietrich / Honnef, Klaus / Ohff, Heinz / Dienst, Rolf Gunther / Schön, Rolf / Polke, Sigmar
1972

Publisher

Museum Folkwang, Essen

Year

1972

Details

Hardback, 154 pages

Language

Italian, German, English

Category

Solo Exhibitions

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Grafik des Kapitalistischen Realismus. KP Brehmer, Hödicke, Lueg, Polke, Richter, Vostell. Werkverzeichnisse bis 1971
Block, René / Vogel, Carl
1971

Publisher

Edition René Block, Berlin

Year

1971

Details

Hardback, 193 pages

Language

German

Category

Monographs

Notes

Published in two volumes: Grafik des Kapitalistischen Realismus 1: Werkverzeichnisse bis 1971; Grafik des Kapitalistischen Realismus 2: Werkverzeichnisse der Druckgrafik, September 1971 - May 1976

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Landschaft, Landschaft. Beiträge zur Landschaftsdarstellung der letzten Jahre
Lingner, K.-H. / Mehrens, H. / Winter, Peter
1971
Gerhard Richter. Graphik 1965-1970
Honisch, Dieter
1970

Publisher

Museum Folkwang, Essen

Year

1970

Details

Softcover, 32 pages

Language

German

Category

Artist's Books

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