Gerhard Richter

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In 1963, you wrote to Helmut Heinze that you found the “emblematic images” of the time in the tabloids, that as an artist it was snobbish to reject such popular pictures. Did you want to make pictures people liked?
The desire to please is maligned, unfairly. There are many sides to it. First of all, pictures have to arouse interest before people will even look at them, and then they have to show something that holds that interest – and naturally they have to be presentable, just as a song has to be sung well, otherwise people run away. One mustn't underrate this quality, and I have always been delighted when my pieces have also appealed to the museum guards, the laymen.

On Pop, East and West, and Some of the Picture Sources. Uwe M. Schneede in Conversation with Gerhard Richter, 2010 SOURCE
Gerhard Richter: Text. Writings, Interviews and Letters 1961–2007, Thames & Hudson, London, 2009, p. 14

Can you recall what it may have been that led you to it precisely in 1988, to muster the courage for the cycle?
A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.

On Pop, East and West, and Some of the Picture Sources. Uwe M. Schneede in Conversation with Gerhard Richter, 2010 SOURCE
Gerhard Richter: Text. Writings, Interviews and Letters 1961–2007, Thames & Hudson, London, 2009, p. 14

In the beginning I tried to accommodate everything there that was somewhere between art and garbage and that somehow seemed important to me and a pity to throw away. After a while, some sheets in the Atlas acquired another value, after all – that is, it seemed to me that they could stand on their own terms, not only under the protection of the Atlas.

Interview with Dieter Schwarz, 1999, 1999 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

1993
61 cm x 71 cm
Oil on canvas 
Sotheby's
New York, USA 
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14 May 2024

Abstraktes Bild
Abstract Painting

1990
120 cm x 120 cm
Oil on canvas 
Sotheby's
New York, USA 
USD 4,000,000 – 6,000,000

13 May 2024

Sechs Fotos. 2.5.89–7.5.89 (f - 7.5.1989)
Six Photos. May 2–7, 1989 (f - 7 May 1989)

1991
35 x 50.8cm
Six black-and-white photographs on resin-coated paper in portfolio 
Sotheby's
New York, USA 
USD 25,000 – 35,000
USD 20,320
10 April 2024

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