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192 Colours

192 Farben
192 Colours

1966 200 cm x 150 cm Catalogue Raisonné 136

Oil on canvas

Sotheby's, London, UK: 14 October 2022

Estimate: GBP 13,000,000 – 18,000,000 USD 14,558,960 – 20,158,560
Sold For:
£ 18,287,800 (incl. buyer’s premium)
USD 20,480,872

Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany (loan from a private collection)

(loan from a private collection)

This artwork was shown in the following exhibitions:

Unfinished Stories. Geschichten aus der Sammlung Unfinished Stories. Stories from the Collection Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany 30 August 2019 – 30 August 2020
Gerhard Richter. Abstraktion Gerhard Richter. Abstraction Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany 30 June 2018 – 21 October 2018
Gerhard Richter: Colour Charts Dominique Lévy Gallery, London, UK 13 October 2015 – 16 January 2016
Serial Attitudes: Wiederholung als Methode seit den 1960ern Serial Attitudes: Repetition as an Artistic Method Since the 1960s Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany 01 November 2013 – 25 May 2014
15 Jahre Galerie der Gegenwart 15 Years of the Gallery of Contemporary Art Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany 08 September 2012 – 20 October 2013
Gerhard Richter: Panorama Tate Modern, London, UK 06 October 2011 – 08 January 2012
Monets Vermächtnis: Serie – Ordnung und Obsession Monet's Legacy: Series – Order and Obsession Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany 28 September 2001 – 20 January 2002
Gerhard Richter: Det umuliges kunst, Malerier 1964–1998 Gerhard Richter: The Art of the Impossible, Paintings 1964–1998 Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway 17 January 1999 – 01 April 1999
Reihung. Ordnung muß sein, aber ist Sein Ordnung? Sequence: Order Must Be, But Is Being Ordered? Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg, Germany 01 May 1990 – 01 June 1990
Zauber der Medusa. Europäische Manierismen Fascination of Medusa: European Mannerism Wiener Festwochen, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria 03 April 1987 – 12 July 1987
Gerhard Richter. Bilder 1962–1985 Gerhard Richter: Paintings 1962–1985 Museum moderner Kunst/Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Austria 01 August 1986 – 21 September 1986
Gerhard Richter. Bilder 1963–1986 Gerhard Richter: Paintings 1963–1986 Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland 14 June 1986 – 20 July 1986
Gerhard Richter. Bilder 1962–1985 Gerhard Richter: Paintings 1962–1985 Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany 25 April 1986 – 01 June 1986
Gerhard Richter. Bilder 1962–1985 Gerhard Richter: Paintings 1962–1985 Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany 18 January 1986 – 23 March 1986
Museum? Museum! Museum. Kunst von heute aus Hamburger Privatsammlungen Museum? Museum! Museum. Art of Today from Hamburg Private Collections Museum für 40 Tage, Hamburg, Germany 03 June 1985 – 15 July 1985
Gerhard Richter Raum für Kunst, Hamburg, Germany 15 February 1982 – 02 April 1982
Gerhard Richter. Arbeiten 1962 bis 1971 Gerhard Richter: Paintings 1962 to 1971 Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany 22 June 1971 – 22 August 1971
Gerhard Richter Gegenverkehr e.V. Zentrum für aktuelle Kunst, Aachen, Germany 27 March 1969 – 22 April 1969
Junge deutsche Künstler. 14 x 14 – Leben im Museum Young German Artists: 14 x 14 – Living in the Museum Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany 05 April 1968 – 15 April 1968
Eröffnung der Galerie der Gegenwart Opening of the Galerie der Gegenwart Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany 03 February 1997 – 11 September 2024

This artwork is included in the following publications:

Title
Author
Date
Double vision
2023

Issue

2023

Publisher

Walther König, Köln

Editor

Kölle, Brigitte

Details

Hardback, 255 pages

ISBN

9783753304038

Language

German, English

Category

Group Exhibitions

Notes

Published on the occasion of the exhibition “Vija Celmins | Gerhard Richter: Double Vision”. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Galerie der Gegenwart, 12.5. - 27.8.2023.

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Gerhard Richter: Painting after the Subject of History
Buchloh, Benjamin H. D.
2022

Issue

2022

Publisher

MIT Press, Cambridge

Details

Softcover, 696 pages

ISBN

9780262543538

Language

English

Category

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

Issue

2020

Publisher

Yale University Press, New Haven

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.

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Kalkulierter Kontrollverlust
Nedo, Kito
2018

In

Art. Das Kunstmagazin

Issue

01 July 2018, No. 7, p. 20 - 37

Publisher

Gruner + Jahr, Hamburg

ISBN

0173-2781

Language

German

Category

Online Publications
Gerhard Richter
Elger, Dietmar / Fajt, Jiří
2017

Issue

2017

Publisher

The National Gallery in Prague, Prague

Details

Softcover, 205 pages

ISBN

9788070356463

Language

English

Category

Solo Exhibitions

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Gerhard Richter: Die Editionen
2017

Issue

2017

Publisher

Edition Folkwang / Steidl, Göttingen

Editor

Museum Folkwang

Details

Softcover, 63 pages

ISBN

9783958293564

Language

German

Category

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Gerhard Richter: Über Malen / Frühe Bilder
2017

Issue

2017

Publisher

Hirmer Verlag, München

Editor

Schreier, Christoph / Kunstmuseum Bonn

Details

Softcover, 128 pages

ISBN

9783777428970

Language

German

Category

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Unconsolable Contemporary: Observing Gerhard Richter
Rabinow, Paul
2017

Issue

2017

Publisher

Duke University Press, Durham

Details

Softcover, 163 pages

ISBN

9780822370017

Language

English

Category

Monographs

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The Artwork of Gerhard Richter. Painting, critical theory and cultural transformation
Ansted, Darryn
2016

Issue

2016

Publisher

Routledge, Abingdon

Details

Hardback, 244 pages

ISBN

9781472409560

Language

English

Category

Monographs

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[un]erwartet. Kunst des Zufalls
2016

Issue

2016

Publisher

Wienand Verlag, Köln

Editor

Groos, Ulrike / Froitzheim, Eva-Marina

Details

Softcover, 168 pages

ISBN

9783868323412

Language

German, English

Category

Group Exhibitions

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Wolke & Kristall - Die Sammlung Dorothee und Konrad Fischer
2016

Issue

2016

Publisher

Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld

Editor

Müller-Schareck, Maria

Details

Softcover, 300 pages

ISBN

9783735602787

Language

German

Category

Collections

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Gerhard Richter: Abstraction and Appearance
Moorhouse, Paul
2016

Issue

2016

Publisher

Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow

Editor

Allenova, Ekaterina / d'Amora, Delphine

Details

Softcover, 151 pages

ISBN

9785905110818

Language

Russian, English

Category

Solo Exhibitions

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Das Abenteuer unserer Sammlung Kunst nach 1945 aus den Kunstmuseen Krefeld
Hentschel, Martin / Holzhey, Magdalena / Janzen, Thomas / Martin, Sylvia
2016

Issue

2016

Publisher

Wienand Verlag, Krefeld

Editor

Hentschel, Martin

Details

Hardback, 558 pages

ISBN

9783868323290

Language

German, English

Category

Group Exhibitions

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Gerhard Richter. 14 Panes of Glass for Toyoshima, dedicated to futility
Elger, Dietmar / Hayashi, Sumi
2016

Issue

2016

Publisher

Wako Works of Art Co., Ltd, Tokyo

Details

Softcover, 79 pages

ISBN

9784902070460

Language

Japanese, English

Category

Collections

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Gerhard Richter: Colour Charts
Elger, Dietmar / Butin, Hubertus / Mansoor, Jaleh
2015

Issue

2015

Publisher

Dominique Lévy, New York

Details

Hardback, 140 pages

ISBN

9781944379018

Language

English

Category

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Wie leben? Zukunftsbilder von Malewitsch bis Fujimoto
Banz, Claudia / Franze, Jana / Kiefer, Theresia / Leinfelder, Reinhold / Zinfert, Maria / Scheja, Yvonne / Tietenberg, Annette
2015

Issue

2015

Publisher

Wienand Verlag, Köln

Editor

Zechlin, René

Details

Hardback, 288 pages

ISBN

9783868323030

Language

German, English

Category

Group Exhibitions

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Germany Divided. Baselitz and his Generation. From the Duerckheim Collection
Stonard, John-Paul / MacGregor, Neil
2014

Issue

2014

Publisher

British Museum Press, London

Details

Hardback, 192 pages

ISBN

9780714126906, 071412690X

Language

English

Category

Group Exhibitions

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Scheiben und Strips von Gerhard Richter. Schriften des Gerhard Richter Archiv Dresden ; Bd. 10
Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. / Elger, Dietmar
2013

Issue

2013

Publisher

Walther König, Köln

Details

Softcover, 71 pages

ISBN

9783863353629

Language

German

Category

Monographs

Notes

Series 'Schriften des Gerhard Richter Archiv Dresden ; vol. 10'

The small-format book Scheiben und Strips von Gerhard Richter comprises two essays: Gerhard Richter. Gläserne Revolte and Das Zufalls-Ornament. Malerei des Fortschritts by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh.

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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

Issue

2012

Publisher

Prestel, München

Editor

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

Details

Hardback, 305 pages

ISBN

9783791351896

Language

German

Category

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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

Issue

2012

Publisher

Édition du Centre Pompidou, Paris

Editor

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

Details

Hardback, 304 pages

ISBN

978-2844265746, 284426574X

Language

French, English

Category

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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

Issue

2011

Publisher

Tate Publishing, London

Details

Softcover, 288 pages

ISBN

1854379453, 978-1854379450

Language

English

Category

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Il bordo del mondo: La forma sguardo nella pittura di Gerhard Richter
Garbin, Emanuele
2011

Issue

2011

Publisher

Marsilio, Venezia

Details

Softcover, 219 pages

ISBN

9788831711128

Language

Italian

Category

Monographs

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Gerhard Richter in der Dresdener Galerie. Schriften des Gerhard Richter Archiv Dresden ; Bd. 7
Elger, Dietmar
2010

Issue

2010

Publisher

Sandstein Verlag, Dresden

Details

Softcover, 47 pages

ISBN

9783942422222

Language

German

Category

Monographs

Notes

Series 'Schriften des Gerhard Richter Archiv Dresden ; vol. 7'

Gerhard Richter in der Dresdener Galerie is the 7th volume from the publications of the Gerhard Richter Archive Dresden.

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Gerhard Richter. A Life in Painting
Elger, Dietmar
2009

Issue

2009

Publisher

University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

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: Abstrakte Bilder
Wilmes, Ulrich / Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. / Söntgen, Beate / Stemmrich, Gregor
2008

Issue

2008

Publisher

Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit

Details

Hardback, 160 pages

ISBN

3775722483

Language

German

Category

Solo Exhibitions

Exhibitions

The book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Gerhard Richter. Abstrakte Bilder at Museum Ludwig, Cologne and Haus der Kunst, Munich. The exhibitions were dedicated to Gerhard Richter’s abstract pictures

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Gerhard Richter, Maler
Elger, Dietmar
2008

Issue

2008

Publisher

DuMont, Köln

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. Zufall. Das Kölner Domfenster und 4900 Farben = The Cologne Cathedral Window, and 4900 Colours
Diederich, Stephan / Schock-Werner, Barbara / Butin, Hubertus / Pelzer, Birgit
2007

Issue

2007

Publisher

Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln

Details

Softcover, 144 pages

ISBN

9783865602985

Language

German, English

Category

Monographs

Notes

This book documents Gerhard Richter's abstract, stained-glass window for Germany's historic Cologne Cathedral.

The book Gerhard Richter. Zufall. The Cologne Cathedral Window, and 4900 Colours examines the creative process behind Richter’s work at Cologne Cathedral [CR: 900].

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Gerhard Richter. Werkverzeichnis 1993-2004
Zweite, Armin
2005

Issue

2005

Publisher

Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf in association with D.A.P Distributed Art Publishers, New York, NY

Details

Hardback, 323 pages

ISBN

9783937572208, 978-3937572208

Language

German

Category

Solo Exhibitions

Exhibitions

This catalogue raisonné records Richter’s works in the years 1999-2004. In his work, Gerhard Richter calls into question painting's boundaries, and the labels applied to painting and theories connected with them.

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Gerhard Richter. Ohne Farbe = Without Color
Spieler, Reinhard / Gelshorn, Julian / Kania, Elke / Krystof, Doris
2005

Issue

2005

Publisher

Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit / Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf

Details

Hardback, 96 pages

ISBN

9783775715836

Language

German, English

Category

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Gerhard Richter. Catalogue Raisonné 1993–2004
Zweite, Armin
2005

Issue

2005

Publisher

Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf in association with D.A.P Distributed Art Publishers, New York, NY

Details

Hardback, 324 pages

ISBN

9783937572215, 393757221X

Language

English

Category

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This catalogue raisonné records Richter’s works in the years 1993-2004. In his work, Gerhard Richter calls into question painting's boundaries, and the labels applied to painting and theories connected with them.

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Gerhard Richter, Maler
Elger, Dietmar
2002

Issue

2002

Publisher

DuMont, Köln

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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Monets Vermächtnis: Serie – Ordnung und Obsession
Schneede, Uwe M. / Heinrich, Christoph / Derenthal, Ludger / Fuchs, Martina / Lil, Kira van / Wappler, Friederike / Görgen, Annabelle / Sykora, Katharina / Müllerschön, Nicola
2001

Issue

2001

Publisher

Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit

Editor

Schneede, Uwe M.

Details

Hardback, 192 pages

ISBN

3775711201

Language

German

Category

Group Exhibitions

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Gerhard Richter in Dallas Collections
Wylie, Charles
2000

Issue

2000

Publisher

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX

Details

Unknown binding, 6 pages

Language

English

Category

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Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Arnulf Rainer. Sammlung Frieder Burda = Collection Frieder Burda
Poetter, Jochen / Brehm, Margrit / Möckel, Birgit
1996

Issue

1996

Publisher

Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit

Details

Hardback, 311 pages

ISBN

3893228608

Language

English, German

Category

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Reihung. Ordnung muß sein, aber ist Sein Ordnung?
Rockenschaub, Gerwald
1990

Issue

1990

Publisher

Munro-Unverzagt, Hamburg

Details

Softcover, 84 pages

ISBN

3980253805

Language

German

Category

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Gerhard Richter. Paintings
Rorimer, Anne / Zacharopoulos, Denys
1987

Issue

1987

Publisher

Marian Goodman Gallery / Sperone Westwater, New York, NY

Details

Softcover, 46 pages

Language

English

Category

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Zauber der Medusa. Europäische Manierismen
Hofmann, Werner
1987

Issue

1987

Publisher

Löcker Verlag, Wien

Details

Softcover, 660 pages

ISBN

3854091079

Language

German

Category

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Gerhard Richter. Bilder = Paintings 1962 - 1985
Harten, Jürgen / Hering, Karl-Heinz / Honisch, Dieter / Loock, Ulrich / Ronte, Dieter / Elger, Dietmar
1986

Issue

1986

Publisher

DuMont, Köln

Details

Softcover, 402 pages

ISBN

3770117727

Language

German, English

Category

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Museum? Museum! Museum. Kunst von heute aus Hamburger Privatsammlungen
Schilling, Jürgen / Peters, Babette / Hofmann, Werner / Gercken, Günther
1985

Issue

1985

Publisher

Waisenhaus-Buchdruckerei und Verlag, Braunschweig

Details

Softcover, 230 pages

Language

German

Category

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Gerhard Richter
Buchloh, Benjamin H. D.
1977

Issue

1977

Publisher

Musée national d'art Moderne, Paris

Details

Softcover, 73 pages

ISBN

2858500290

Language

French

Category

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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

Issue

1972

Publisher

Museum Folkwang, Essen

Details

Hardback, 154 pages

Language

Italian, German, English

Category

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Gerhard Richter. Arbeiten 1962-1971
Hering, Karl-Heinz / Helms, Dietrich
1971

Issue

1971

Publisher

Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf

Details

Softcover, 136 pages

Language

German

Category

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