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Cage (P19-1) - Unsigned Print by Gerhard Richter 2020 - MyArtBroker

Cage (P19-1)
Unsigned Print

Gerhard Richter

£10,000-£15,000Value Indicator

$20,000-$29,000 Value Indicator

$18,000-$27,000 Value Indicator

¥90,000-¥130,000 Value Indicator

12,000-18,000 Value Indicator

$100,000-$140,000 Value Indicator

¥1,930,000-¥2,900,000 Value Indicator

$12,500-$18,000 Value Indicator

-7% AAGR

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Medium: Giclée print

Edition size: 200

Year: 2020

Size: H 100cm x W 100cm

Signed: No

Format: Unsigned Print

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The value of Gerhard Richter's Cage (P19-1) is estimated to be worth between £10,000 and £15,000. This Giclée print, created in 2020, is an unsigned artwork. Over the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £7,000 in January 2024 to £27,491 in June 2021. The average annual growth rate of this piece is -7%. This work has a strong auction history, having been sold 16 times since its entry to the market in December 2013. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 200.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
January 2024Phillips London United Kingdom
June 2023Ketterer Kunst Hamburg Germany
April 2023Phi Auctions United States
December 2022Tate Ward Auctions United Kingdom
August 2022Sotheby's Online United Kingdom
June 2022Phillips London United Kingdom
January 2022Phillips London United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

Imbued with the same sense of foreboding that accompanies the artist’s famed Dead paintings (1988) - photo paintings depicting the body of German terrorist Ulrike Meinhof, ringleader of the famed Baader-Meinhof Gang or Rote Armee Fraktion - Cage (P19-1) combines elements of Richter’s penchant for historical painting with a deep meditation on non-representational art and abstraction. Save for a streak of brighter oil paint, which marks the centre of the image with a sense of directionality and dynamism, the work combines hues of blue and grey with moss-like greens.

Typical of prints made after Richter’s ‘squeegee’ paintings, such as Cage Grid I Single Part L (2011) or Cage f.ff II (2015), the work references a unique creative process that sees the artist use large, home-made squeegees to drag layer upon layer of oil paint across the canvas surface. Born in the East German city of Dresden, Richter inscribes this work with the trace of his early artistic training in the same city - albeit in the negative. Strictly ideological in its remit, save for a few exceptions, the Dresden Academy was committed to the reproduction, via its students, of a ‘socialist realist’ style of painting. In Cage (P19-1), ideology is nowhere to be seen: rather, it has been banished to the murky depths of the non-representational, never to return.

  • 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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