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Gerhard Richter
Kerze II, 1989
10yr Price history
$746,226
$****** - ******
Gerhard Richter
Kerze II
10yr Price history
$746,226
$****** - ******
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Past Sales
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ImageLast Sale DateTitleEdition No.Last SaleLast Sale Auction HouseLast Sale Location
Mar 13, 2024Kerze II11
Christie'sNew York
May 16, 2001Kerze 1 - candle
Sotheby'sNew York
Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

90.2 x 90.2 cm (35.5 x 35.5 in)

Materials

oil on offset print on paper flush-mounted on plastic

Signature

signed, numbered and dated "11/50 Richter 89" (lower left); signed again, numbered again and dated again "11/50 Richter, 89" (on the reverse)

Provenance

Jan Abrams Gallery, Los Angeles

Private collection

Anon. sale; Sotheby"s New York, 16 May 2001, lot 363

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Los Angeles, Regen Projects, Gerhard Richter. Prints , July 1990 (another example exhibited).

Durham, Duke University Museum of Art; Normal, University Galleries of Illinois State University; Colorado Springs, Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado; Reading, Freedman Gallery, Albright College; East Lansing, Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University; Tuscaloosa, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, The University of Alabama; Glen Ellyn, McAnnich Arts Center, College of DuPage; Newark, University Gallery, University of Delaware and Wichita Falls Museum & Arts Center, The Contemporary Art Collection of Jason Rubell , March 1991-January 1994 (another example exhibited).

Krefeld, Galerie Schönewald und Beuse, Graubner - Polke - Richter. Gemälde Aquarelle Graphiken , May-July 1992 (another example exhibited).

Kunsthalle Bremen, Gerhard Richter: Editionen 1965-1993 , October-November 1993, p. 145, no. 56b (another example exhibited and illustrated).

Musée d"art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Passions privées. Collections particulières d"art moderne et contemporain en France , December 1995-March 1996 (another example exhibited).

Bank Brussel Lambert, Art at Work , March-May 1996 (another example exhibited).

Tokyo, Wako Works of Art, Gerhard Richter Part II: Painting, Mirror Painting, Watercolor, Photograph, Print , May 1996, n.p. (another example exhibited and illustrated).

Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Des Moines Art Center, Photoimage: Printmaking 60s to 90s , July 1998-May 1999, pp. 66 and 85 (another example exhibited and illustrated).

Dallas Museum of Art, Gerhard Richter in Dallas Collections , February-April 2000 (another example exhibited).

Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Sammlung Hans & Uschi Welle: Eine Schenkung zeitgenössischer Graphik 1950-2000 , December 2000-April 2001 (another example exhibited).

Kunstverein Friedrichshafen, Gerhard Richter: Editionen 1969-1998 , March-May 2001 (another example exhibited).

Kunstmuseum Bonn; Lucerne, Kunstmuseum Luzern; Kunsthalle Emden; Tübingen, Kunsthalle and Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Gerhard Richter: Printed! Druckgrafik, Foto-Editionen und Künstlerbücher , June 2004-October 2005 (another example exhibited).

Odense, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Kunsthalle du Kiel and Linz, Landesgalerie, Österreichisches Landesmuseum, Schattenspiel: Schatten und Licht in der zeitgenössischen Kunst. Eine Hommage an Hans Christian Andersen , May 2005-May 2006, pp. 210-214 and 298 (another example exhibited and illustrated).

The Album of the Second Beijing International Art Biennale, exh. cat., Beijing, September-October 2005, p. 56 (another example exhibited and illustrated).

Düsseldorf, Galerie Schönewald und Beuse, Gerhard Richter: Ausgewählte Editionen , August-December 2008 (another example exhibited).

Dallas Museum of Art, Two x Two x Ten: Celebrating Ten Years of Two by Two for Aids and Art , October 2008-January 2009 (another example exhibited).

Bietigheim-Bissingen, Städtische Galerie, Spiegel geheimer Wünsche. Stillleben aus fünf Jahrhunderten , April-July 2009 (another example exhibited).

Miami, Rubell Family Collection / Contemporary Arts Foundation and Durham, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Time Capsule, Age 13 to 21: The Contemporary Art Collection of Jason Rubell , December 2010-August 2011, pp. 148 and 179 (another example exhibited and illustrated).

Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and Galerie Stihl Waiblingen, Neue Realitäten. FotoGrafik von Warhol bis Havekost , June 2011-May 2012, pp. 62-63 and 95, cat. no. 52 (another example exhibited and illustrated).

Berlin, me Collectors Room, Gerhard Richter: Editionen 1965-2011 , February-May 2012, p. 6 (another example exhibited and illustrated).

Münster, Galerie mike karstens, Gerhard Richter. Projekte und ausgesuchte Editionen , September-October 2014 (another example exhibited).

Arezzo, Museo Casa Ivan Bruschi, Icastica 2015: Colmare il bocciolo / Combattere il verme / Regolare il calore / Eludere il vento / Sfuggire all"ape. Opere dalla Collezione AGI Verona , June-September 2015 (another example exhibited).

San Antonio, McNay Art Museum, Made in Germany: Contemporary Art from the Rubell Family Collection , February 2016-April 2016 (another example exhibited).

Baden-Baden, Museum Frieder Burda, Die Kerze , October 2016-February 2017, pp. 22-23 and 143, no. 24 (another example exhibited and illustrated).

Essen, Museum Folkwang, Gerhard Richter: Die Editionen , April-July 2017, pp. 51-52 (another example exhibited and illustrated).

Münster, Galerie mike karstens, Collector"s Paradise , June-October 2017 (another example exhibited).

Literature

H. Butin, Gerhard Richter: Editionen 1965-1993 , Munich, 1993, p. 144, no. 56a (another example illustrated).

H. Butin and S. Gronert, eds., Gerhard Richter: Editions 1965-2004: Catalogue Raisonn é, Ostfildern, 2004, pp. 67 and 211, no. 66 (another example illustrated).

V. Marsilio, Il bordo del mondo: La forma dello sguardo nella pittura di Gerhard Richter , Venice, 2011, pp. 123-125.

Gerhard Richter Panorama: A Retrospective , exh. cat., London, Tate Modern, 2011, p. 127.

H. Butin, S. Gronert and T. Olbricht, eds., Gerhard Richter: Editions 1965-2013 , Ostfildern, 2014, pp. 91 and 235, no. 66 and 96 (another example illustrated).

Gerhard Richter - Unikate in Serie , exh. cat., Essen, Museum Folkwang, 2017, pp. 64-67 and 68-69 (another example illustrated).

Description

GERHARD RICHTER (B. 1932)

Kerze II

signed, numbered and dated "11/50 Richter 89" (lower left); signed again, numbered again and dated again "11/50 Richter, 89" (on the reverse)

oil on offset print on paper flush-mounted on plastic

35 ½ x 35 ½ in. (90.2 x 90.2 cm.)

Executed in 1989. This work is number eleven from an edition of fifty.

Kerze II by Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter

Kerze II, 1989

Oil on offset print on paper flush-mounted on plastic
90.2 x 90.2 cm (35.5 x 35.5 in)
Paintings
Edition of 50
LiveArt Estimate™
$******
Momentum 12M
22.2%
CAGR
**%
Last recorded sale at Christie's, New York (13 Mar 2024)
$******
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