Gerhard Richter

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The Atlas belongs to the Lenbachhaus in Munich – it's long since ceased to belong to me. Occasionally I run across it somewhere, and I think it's interesting because it looks different each time.

Interview with Stefan Koldehoff, 1999, 1999 SOURCE
Gerhard Richter: Text. Writings, Interviews and Letters 1961–2007, Thames & Hudson, London, 2009, p. 14

Among the watercolours there are scarcely any representational ones painted from photographs or other models.
Because it is more exciting with the abstract ones, and it goes faster. It has an effect similar to my earlier enthusiasm for developing photos in the darkroom. Something is created there all by itself, which one only has to observe in order to intervene at the right moment – in that case, to stop it. Here, then, it's more a question of being able to decide than of actually making something.

Interview with Dieter Schwarz, 1999, 1999 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

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Artwork Auction House Estimate Sold For Date

Abstraktes Bild
Abstract Painting

1992
52 cm x 62 cm
Oil on canvas 
Grisebach
Berlin, Germany 
EUR 180,000 – 240,000 USD 256,000 – 342,000 GBP 280,600
USD 399,075
27 May 2011

8.2.92
8.2.92

1992
10.1 cm x 15.2 cm
Lacquer on colour photograph 
Grisebach
Berlin, Germany 
EUR 12,000 – 15,000 USD 16,000 – 20,000 GBP 17,080
USD 22,773
25 November 2011

10.2.88
10.2.88

1988
30 cm x 42 cm
Oil on paper 
Grisebach
Berlin, Germany 
EUR 50,000 – 70,000 USD 66,800 – 93,500 GBP 84,180
USD 112,464
25 November 2011