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War Cut II - Signed Mixed Media by Gerhard Richter 2004 - MyArtBroker

War Cut II
Signed Mixed Media

Gerhard Richter

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Medium: Mixed Media

Edition size: 50

Year: 2004

Size: H 26cm x W 22cmx D 2cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Mixed Media

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The value of Gerhard Richter's War Cut II (signed) is estimated to be worth between £100,000 and £160,000. This mixed media artwork, created in 2004, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 2%. This work has an auction history of six total sales since its entry to the market in November 2013. In the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £73,413 in September 2022 to £128,648 in June 2023. The average return to the seller is £84,914 and the edition size of this piece is limited to 50.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
Lempertz, Cologne Germany
Lempertz, Cologne Germany
June 2023Grisebach Germany
September 2022Phillips London United Kingdom
June 2021Ketterer Kunst Hamburg Germany
December 2018Phillips London United Kingdom
November 2013Phillips New York United States

Meaning & Analysis

In this print, Richter does little to index his accretive, staged process of ‘layering’ - a central part of the artist’s creative process. Consisting of a bold, bright panel of red paint, complete with a right ‘flash’ of green and yellow hues, the traces of Richter’s squeegees - home-made by his assistants - are scarcely visible. Instead, here Richter creates a mysterious, impenetrable image that references its nature as a photographic ‘section’ of a much larger, much more complex painting. Unlike the bright, complex assemblage that is Abstraktes Bild (P1) - painted just several years later - there is a seriousness to this work that references its re-use and re-working in Richter’s 2004 monograph, War Cut.

The monograph War Cut, from which this print was taken, has its origins in May of 2002. During this month, Richter took photographs of individual sections of his 1987 painting, War Cut. Repurposing them, Richter interspersed these 216 images with another 216 texts taken from the German newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung. The texts are significant in that they were taken from editions of the newspaper published on the 20th and 21st of March 2003 - dates that marked the beginning of the so-called Iraq War.

  • 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.