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Blumenstrauß (P3) - Unsigned Print by Gerhard Richter 2014 - MyArtBroker

Blumenstrauß (P3)
Unsigned Print

Gerhard Richter

£14,500-£22,000Value Indicator

$29,000-$45,000 Value Indicator

$26,000-$40,000 Value Indicator

¥130,000-¥200,000 Value Indicator

17,000-26,000 Value Indicator

$140,000-$220,000 Value Indicator

¥2,770,000-¥4,200,000 Value Indicator

$18,000-$28,000 Value Indicator

22% AAGR

AAGR (5 years) This estimate blends recent public auction records with our own private sale data and network demand.

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Medium: Digital Print

Edition size: 500

Year: 2014

Size: H 60cm x W 89cm

Signed: No

Format: Unsigned Print

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The value of Gerhard Richter's Blumenstrauß (P3) is estimated to be worth between £14,500 and £22,000. In the past 12 months, the artwork has sold once, with an average selling price of £10,275. Over the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £8,897 in September 2022 to £20,822 in September 2023. This work has shown strong value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 23%. This is a popular work, having been sold 34 times at auction since its initial sale in May 2014. The edition size of this digital print is limited to 500.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
Sotheby's Paris France
June 2024Phillips New York United States
October 2023Phillips London United Kingdom
September 2023Phillips New York United States
September 2022Christie's New York United States
July 2020Phillips London United Kingdom
July 2020Koller Zurich Switzerland

Meaning & Analysis

This original print evokes Richter’s innovative elision of the boundaries separating painting and photography. To create the original work after which the print was made, Richter projected a photograph of a vase filled with flowers onto a canvas. Rather than tracing the contours of the photographic image onto the canvas surface, Richter focused solely on colour, transcribing tones - as he saw them - onto his medium with scant attention to likeness or the accurate representation of form. The end result, visible in Blumenstrauß (P3), is a hybrid image that bears traces of Richter’s photorealist paintings, such as Elisabeth II (1966), Besetztes Haus (Squatter’s House) (1990) and Orchid II (1998), and abstract, squeegee-based works, such as those assembled in the Cage Grid series.

Blurring and photography have long been central to Richter’s artistic œuvre. Commenting on his reasoning behind his world-famous blur technique, Richter once confessed: “I blur things so that they do not look artistic or craftsmanlike but technological, smooth and perfect. I blur things to make all the parts a closer fit. Perhaps I also blur out the excess of unimportant information.” Photography - the ultimate conveyor of detail and visual information - came into Richter’s life during the 1950s, when he visited the allied-controlled segment of Berlin. Shocked by vibrant visual and artistic cultures of the kind that did not exist inside the Soviet sphere of influence, one exhibition had a huge effect on him. Named The Family of Man, Richter credited it with introducing him to the ‘power’ of photography. “They told so much about modern life, about my life,” Richter once recalled, thinking about the exhibition’s photographs.

  • Hailing from Germany, Gerhard Richter has not been confined to one visual style. A testament to versatility and artistic diversity, Richter's work spans from photorealism to abstraction and conceptual art, and his portfolio is rich in varied media. From creating bold canvases to working on glass to distort the lines between wall-based art and sculpture, Richter has honed in on the blur technique to impart an ambiguity on his creations. To this day, Richter is one of the most recognised artists of the 20th century with his art having been presented in exhibitions worldwide. His global impact underscores his legacy as a trailblazer of artistic exploration.