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Cage (P19-2) - Unsigned Print by Gerhard Richter 2020 - MyArtBroker

Cage (P19-2)
Unsigned Print

Gerhard Richter

£11,000-£17,000Value Indicator

$22,000-$35,000 Value Indicator

$20,000-$30,000 Value Indicator

¥100,000-¥150,000 Value Indicator

13,000-20,000 Value Indicator

$110,000-$170,000 Value Indicator

¥2,140,000-¥3,310,000 Value Indicator

$13,500-$21,000 Value Indicator

-9% 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: 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 (P19-2) (unsigned) is estimated to be worth between £11,000 and £17,000. This Giclée print, created in 2020, has an auction history of nine total sales since its entry to the market on 7th June 2021. Over the past 12 months, the artwork has sold twice, with an average selling price of £11,750. In the last five years, the hammer price has varied from £8,000 in June 2023 to £25,200 in June 2021. The average annual growth rate of this piece is currently at -9%. 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
September 2024Phillips London United Kingdom
March 2024Christie's London United Kingdom
November 2023Forum Auctions London United Kingdom
June 2023Phillips London United Kingdom
January 2023SBI Art Auction Japan
November 2021Sotheby's Paris France
September 2021Sotheby's Online United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

Like its close counterparts in the Cage Grid and Cage f.ff series, Cage (P19-2) references Richter’s practice of using large, home-made squeegees to dynamic effect in his paintings. In this particular print, Richter channels the experimental and atonal compositions of American composer and artist John Cage - whose name it references - into a canvas that comprises a series of carefully applied, lateral sections of oil paint. Combining nature’s greens and turquoises with rust-coloured and metallic hues, the work evokes decay of both natural and man-made origin.

This print, like many of Richter’s abstract works, is testament to his fierce rejection of artistic norms, and his early training in socialist realist painting. Bearing the symbolic hallmarks of propaganda art, socialist realism was designed to vaunt the achievements of the former German Democratic Republic, a satellite state of the former Soviet Union. Constrained in terms of the subjects he could depict and the materials he could use, Richter references his artistic formation in the GDR in his often-repeated phrase: the ‘death of painting’. Describing his own artistic goals, both on a methodological and conceptual level, this phrase is very much present in this image: gone is tradition, and all the tightly-defined representational rules that come with it.

  • 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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