Gerhard Richter

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You sometimes describe yourself as a classical painter.
I'm never really sure what that word means, but however inaccurately I use it, 'classical' was always my ideal, as long as I can remember, and something of that has always stayed with me, to this day. Of course, there were difficulties, because in comparison to my ideal, I didn't even come close.

I Have Nothing to Say and I'm Saying it, Conversation between Gerhard Richter and Nicholas Serota, Spring 2011, 2011 SOURCE
Gerhard Richter: Text. Writings, Interviews and Letters 1961–2007, Thames & Hudson, London, 2009, p. 14

And what is it that connects Vermeer, Palladio, Bach, Cage?
It's that same quality I've been talking about. It's neither contrived, nor surprising and smart, not baffling, not witty, not interesting, not cynical, it can't be planned and it probably can't even be described. It's just good.

I Have Nothing to Say and I'm Saying it, Conversation between Gerhard Richter and Nicholas Serota, Spring 2011, 2011 SOURCE
Gerhard Richter: Text. Writings, Interviews and Letters 1961–2007, Thames & Hudson, London, 2009, p. 14

If you don't believe in God, what do you believe in?
Well, in the first place, I believe that you always have to believe. It's the only way; after all we both believe that we will do this exhibition. But I can't believe in God, as such, he's either too big or too small for me, and always incomprehensible, unbelievable.

I Have Nothing to Say and I'm Saying it, Conversation between Gerhard Richter and Nicholas Serota, Spring 2011, 2011 SOURCE
Gerhard Richter: Text. Writings, Interviews and Letters 1961–2007, Thames & Hudson, London, 2009, p. 14

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Artwork Auction House Estimate Sold For Date

Abstraktes Bild
Abstract Painting

1985
60 cm x 60 cm
Oil on canvas 
Sotheby's
London, UK 
GBP 2,500,000 – 3,500,000 USD 3,163,300 – 4,428,620 GBP 2,952,000
USD 3,755,092
06 March 2024

Blattecke
Sheet Corner

1967
23.3 cm x 17.4 cm – 23.9 cm x 18 cm
Offset print on lightweight textured card 
Kunsthaus Lempertz
Cologne, Germany 
EUR 5,000 – 7,000 USD 5,347 – 7,485 GBP 6,300
USD 6,859
02 December 2023

Blattecke
Sheet Corner

1967
23.3 cm x 17.4 cm – 23.9 cm x 18 cm
Offset print on lightweight textured card 
Dorotheum
Vienna, Austria 
EUR 3,000 USD 3,205 GBP 6,356
USD 6,836
13 June 2023

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