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Besen by Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter

Besen, 1984

Oil on canvas
224.7 x 200 cm (88.46 x 78.74 in)
Paintings
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Last recorded sale at Christie's, Hong Kong (26 May 2022)
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
May 26, 2022
Christie'sHong Kong20th/21st Century Art Evening Sale22
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Besen
Nov 17, 1992
Sotheby'sNew YorkContemporary Art from Raymond J Learsy Collection3
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Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

224.7 x 200 cm (88.46 x 78.74 in)

Materials

oil on canvas

Signature

signed, dated and inscribed ‘Richter 1984 553-2' (on the reverse)

Provenance

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

Raymond J. Learsy, New York

Sotheby's New York, 17 November 1992, lot 3

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Düsseldorf, Messegelände, Hall 13, From Here On: Two Months of German Art in Düsseldorf, September-December 1984.

New York, Marian Goodman Gallery and New York, Sperone Westwater, Gerhard Richter, March 1985.

Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Gerhard Richter/MATRIX 95, July-September 1987.

Literature

H. Zywicki, From Here On: A Photo Documentation, Kunstforum International, 1984 (illustrated, no. 75, p. 67).

Messegelände Hall 13, From Here On: Two Months of German Art in Düsseldorf, exh. cat., Düsseldorf, 1984 (illustrated, p. 434).

Marian Goodman Gallery and Sperone Westwater, Gerhard Richter, exh. cat., New York, 1985 (illustrated, unpaged).

U. Loock and D. Zacharopoulos, Gerhard Richter, Munich, 1985 (illustrated, p. 107).

J. Harten, ed., Gerhard Richter: Bilder/Paintings, 1962-1985, Cologne, 1986 (illustrated, no. 553-2, pp. 302 & 399).

P. Taylor, Café Deutschland, Art News, April 1986 (illustrated, p. 74).

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, , exh. cat., Gerhard Richter/MATRIX 95, Hartford, 1987 (illustrated, unpaged).

B. Buchloh, ed., Gerhard Richter: Wekübersicht/Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1993, vol. III, Ostfildern-Ruit, 1993 (illustrated, no. 553-2, p. 89).

R. Storr, De diverses manières d'écorcher un chat doté de sept vies, Art Press, 1995 (illustrated, no. 16, p. 43).

D. Elger, ed., Gerhard Richter: Catalogue Raisonné 1976-1987, vol. III (nos. 389-651-2), Ostfildern-Ruit, 2013 (illustrated, no. 553-2, p. 401).

Description

GERHARD RICHTER (B. 1932)

Besen

signed, dated and inscribed ‘Richter 1984 553-2' (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

224.7 x 200 cm. (88 1⁄2 x 78 3⁄4 in.)

Painted in 1984