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Abstract Painting - Signed Print by Gerhard Richter 1990 - MyArtBroker

Abstract Painting
Signed Print

Gerhard Richter

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Medium: Lithograph

Edition size: 100

Year: 1990

Size: H 42cm x W 58cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Gerhard Richter’s Abstract Painting (signed) is estimated to be worth between £3,900 and £6,000. This lithograph print, created in 1990, has shown consistent value growth since its first sale on 18th April 2024. Over the past 12 months, the average selling price was £3,501, with a total of 1 artwork sold. In the last five years, the hammer price has varied from £2,976 to £3,501. This work is part of a limited edition of 100.

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Auction Results

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April 2024Van Ham Fine Art Auctions Germany

Meaning & Analysis

Like other works in the Abstract collection, such as Abstraktes Bild (P1), this print offers an in-depth view of Richter’s love for intricate, meditative, and dynamic painting. Non-representational in its remit, the piece consists of a bold treatment of dark, moody colours. Juxtaposed against flecks of bright white paint – a ‘classic’ colour, according to Richter’s assistants, and one of many the artist restricts himself to – these earthy hues provide a further source of heavy contrast, releasing the image from its two-dimensionality. They also recall Richter’s Cage paintings, produced in 2006 and directly inspired by the avant-garde composer and installation artist of the same name.

Leaving himself – and the artwork – open to accident and creative serendipity alike, Richter produces his abstract paintings with a number of large home-made squeegees. First applying several layers of block colour directly to canvas, Richter then daubs these squeegees with different oil paints, before dragging them across the canvas surface. This distorts and disrupt his previous marks. Later, Richter embellishes these layers of oil paint, which are still wet, with a palette knife or clean squeegee, revealing different layers of colour below. Although quite unlike Richter’s photorealist works, such as the iconic Betty, this artwork is testament to Richter’s long-held wish to deconstruct mainstream artistic practices. As such, it is heavily influenced by Richter’s time at the Dresden Academy, where he received a strict ‘socialist realist’ training in painting.