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Loo Paper - Signed Print by Gerhard Richter 1994 - MyArtBroker

Loo Paper
Signed Print

Gerhard Richter

£40,000-£60,000Value Indicator

$80,000-$120,000 Value Indicator

$70,000-$110,000 Value Indicator

¥360,000-¥540,000 Value Indicator

50,000-70,000 Value Indicator

$390,000-$580,000 Value Indicator

¥7,790,000-¥11,680,000 Value Indicator

$50,000-$70,000 Value Indicator

33% AAGR

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Medium: Photographic print

Edition size: 24

Year: 1994

Size: H 71cm x W 66cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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Gerhard Richter's Loo Paper, a signed photographic print from 1994, is estimated to be worth between £40,000 and £60,000. Over the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £32,000 in June 2024 to £41,667 in February 2020. This artwork has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 33%. This work has an auction history of six total sales since its entry to the market in May 2000. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 24.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
June 2024Phillips London United Kingdom
February 2020Christie's London United Kingdom
March 2016Christie's New York United States
December 2013Ketterer Kunst Hamburg Germany
October 2012Christie's London United Kingdom
May 2000Christie's New York United States

Meaning & Analysis

Loo Paper is a signed photographic print after the painting Toilet Paper [CR: 75-3], which Richter painted in 1965. The print’s source image was itself based on a photograph - a fact referenced by its markedly two-dimensional, ‘blurred’ style. To the left of the image, lighter shades of grey, blue, and white mix  to give the impression of an interior wall, lit from a window. Yet with these shadows in mind, the focal point of the image - a loo roll - appears to sit awkwardly on the very same wall. Deviating from the photographic ‘truth’ of its source image, the painting deconstructs the still life scene by ‘blurring’ it into patches of uniform tone. Behind this visual technique of ‘blurring’ is a particular philosophy. Richter explains: ‘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.’

Part of the Atlas series, Loo Roll references Richter’s sizable collection of visual material of the same name, which comprises found images, newspaper cuttings, and family photographs. Assembled since the 1960s, when Richter fled from East Germany with his young family to settle in the West German city of Düsseldorf,  the Atlas collection has formed the referential basis of many of the artist’s paintings, including Elisabeth II (1966) and Hund (1965).

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