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Wolken (Clouds) - Signed Print by Gerhard Richter 1969 - MyArtBroker

Wolken (Clouds)
Signed Print

Gerhard Richter

£10,500-£16,000Value Indicator

$21,000-$30,000 Value Indicator

$19,000-$29,000 Value Indicator

¥100,000-¥150,000 Value Indicator

12,500-19,000 Value Indicator

$100,000-$160,000 Value Indicator

¥2,000,000-¥3,060,000 Value Indicator

$13,000-$20,000 Value Indicator

39% AAGR

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Medium: Lithograph

Edition size: 300

Year: 1969

Size: H 55cm x W 50cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Gerhard Richter's Wolken (Clouds) lithograph, created in 1969 and signed by the artist, is estimated to be worth between £10,500 and £16,000. Over the past 12 months, the average selling price was £11,110 across one sale. In the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £8,782 in May 2021 to £11,110 in March 2024. This artwork has shown consistent value growth, with an impressive average annual growth rate of 39%. This work is part of a limited edition of 300.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
Sotheby's London United Kingdom
March 2024Von Zengen Auktion House Germany
May 2021Stahl Auktion House Germany
October 2019Van Ham Fine Art Auctions Germany
September 2018Stahl Auktion House Germany
June 2018Ketterer Kunst Hamburg Germany
January 2018Lempertz, Cologne Germany

Meaning & Analysis

The same image as that which also appears in Richter’s 1969 print Wolke (Cloud), Wolken (Clouds) is a crucial example of the artist’s unique visual style, developed in large part during the 1960s, and emblematic of an important, life-changing period of Richter’s career. Escaping from Dresden, East Germany to the West German city of Düsseldorf within just weeks of the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, Richter was finally free; challenging his own origins in ‘socialist realist’ art, Richter would respond to the new, commodity-driven culture around him by co-founding a bold new art movement. Its name? Capitalist Realism.

Despite its photorealist qualities, Wolken (Clouds) makes a point of bringing our attention to the abstract, even non-referential tendencies of artworks focused on the depiction of the natural world. Around a decade later, during the late 1970s, Richter bagan creating abstract works with large-scale ‘squeegees’, later combining photography and abstraction in his so-called Übermalungen - or ‘overpainted’ photographs. As such, this image can be read as a precursor to these conceptual and stylistic developments of the artist’s œuvre. Comprising an image of a cloudy sky - of the kind one might see from a plane window - the print’s focal point is a bright white horizon line. Sandwiched between an upper and lower layer of cloud, Richter’s image is doubly his own: it was painted after a holiday photograph, which Richter placed in his so-called ‘Atlas’.

  • 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.

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