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Domecke I (Cathedral Corner) - Signed Print by Gerhard Richter 1998 - MyArtBroker

Domecke I (Cathedral Corner)
Signed Print

Gerhard Richter

£12,500-£19,000Value Indicator

$25,000-$40,000 Value Indicator

$22,000-$35,000 Value Indicator

¥110,000-¥170,000 Value Indicator

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¥2,410,000-¥3,670,000 Value Indicator

$16,000-$24,000 Value Indicator

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Medium: Photographic print

Edition size: 60

Year: 1998

Size: H 78cm x W 55cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Gerhard Richter’s Domecke I (Cathedral Corner) (signed) is estimated to be worth between £12,500 and £19,000. This photographic print, created in 1998, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 2%. This work has an auction history of 15 total sales since its entry to the market in February 2002. In the last 12 months, the artwork has sold once, achieving an average selling price of £11,000. Over the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £7,195 in March 2021 to £13,067 in March 2020. The average return to the seller is £8,768. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 60.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
June 2024Phillips London United Kingdom
April 2021Phillips London United Kingdom
March 2021Christie's New York United States
March 2020Sotheby's New York United States
December 2019Christie's New York United States
December 2016Phillips London United Kingdom
September 2016Christie's London United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

In this print we see Richter turn his attention towards the foundations of Cologne Cathedral - one of the largest gothic buildings in the world. Depicted in a blurred, photorealist style that recalls similar paintings, such as Elisabeth II (1966), Besetztes Haus (Squatter’s House) (1990) and Orchid II (1998), the work is one of two print-based studies of the cathedral issued by Richter in 1998. Unassuming and offering few visual indications as to its location, the base of one of the cathedral’s many flying buttresses is overexposed by a ray of sunlight, which conceals the visual detail of its stone surface.

Copied directly from a photograph, and not painted in situ, the original work after which this print is made serves as a standout example of how Richter’s painterly practice has continued to maintain a close relationship to photography since as early as the 1950s. Domecke I (Cathedral Corner) also gives greater insight into the artist’s relationship to Cologne - his adoptive home city. In 2007, Richter made headlines across Germany and the world when a new stained-glass window was unveiled at the Cathedral. This commission saw Richter depart entirely from religious themes, opting rather for a grid-like formation of 11,500 ‘pixels’ - a stand-in for the ‘non-representational nature of the Divine’. In 2017, Richter gifted the German Reichstag an abstract triptych painting entitled Birkenau. This work is a visual tribute to the victims of the largest concentration camp run by Nazi Germany - Auschwitz-Birkenau.