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1260 Farben (1260 Colours) - Signed Print by Gerhard Richter 1974 - MyArtBroker

1260 Farben (1260 Colours)
Signed Print

Gerhard Richter

£14,500-£22,000Value Indicator

$29,000-$45,000 Value Indicator

$26,000-$40,000 Value Indicator

¥130,000-¥200,000 Value Indicator

17,000-26,000 Value Indicator

$140,000-$220,000 Value Indicator

¥2,770,000-¥4,200,000 Value Indicator

$18,000-$28,000 Value Indicator

5% AAGR

AAGR (5 years) This estimate blends recent public auction records with our own private sale data and network demand.

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Medium: Lithograph

Edition size: 75

Year: 1974

Size: H 58cm x W 76cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Gerhard Richter's 1260 Farben (1260 Colours) (signed) is estimated to be worth between £14,500 and £22,000. This lithograph print, created in 1974, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 5%. This work has an auction history of 12 total sales since its entry to the market on 6th October 2005. In the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £16,325 in June 2021 to £26,042 in June 2021. The average return to the seller is £18,006. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 75.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
Lempertz, Cologne Germany
Sotheby's London United Kingdom
June 2021Ketterer Kunst Hamburg Germany
June 2021Lempertz, Cologne Germany
April 2019Christie's New York United States
February 2019Christie's New York United States
May 2018Van Ham Fine Art Auctions Germany

Meaning & Analysis

Much like 9 Von 180 Farben (9 Of 180 Colours), this print is concerned with colour. Comprising 1260 blocks of individual, block colour, the work is arranged in a grid formation. Speaking to Richter’s sustained interest in ordered and procedural creative processes, the print’s composition imbues it with a conflicting sense of disorder nonetheless. Yellow tones, recognised first by the human eye, stand out from other areas of purple, black, and light blue, giving the work a sense of imbalance. This imbalance then disconnects the composition from its creator, pushing the viewer to wonder whether a machine was involved in its creation.

The intricacy of this mosaic-like piece recalls the rise of digital art in the 20th and 21st century - a movement that has seen artists turn towards and harness the creative possibilities afforded by computers. Although created by Richter during the 1970s, this work is testament to the continued importance of colourism, and the mosaic motif, to the artist’s monumental œuvre: its minimalist, grid-like arrangement of coloured blocks foretells of Richter’s window at Cologne Cathedral, created in 2007. This work, housed in one of the largest religious buildings in the world, comprises 11,500 individual ‘pixels’ and contrasts with the cathedral’s fiercely Prussian, gothic architecture. It is apparently concerned with the ‘non-representational nature of the Divine.’