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Cage (P19-4) - Unsigned Print by Gerhard Richter 2020 - MyArtBroker

Cage (P19-4)
Unsigned Print

Gerhard Richter

£13,500-£20,000Value Indicator

$27,000-$40,000 Value Indicator

$24,000-$35,000 Value Indicator

¥120,000-¥180,000 Value Indicator

16,000-24,000 Value Indicator

$130,000-$190,000 Value Indicator

¥2,610,000-¥3,860,000 Value Indicator

$17,000-$25,000 Value Indicator

12% 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 (P19-4) (unsigned), a Giclée print from 2020, is estimated to be worth between £13,500 and £20,000. This artwork has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 12%. Over the past 12 months, the total sales volume was 0, however, the artwork has been sold 12 times at auction since its initial sale on 9th July 2020. In the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £6,534 in July 2023 to £22,000 in April 2022. The average annual growth rate of this piece is 12%. 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
September 2023Christie's London United Kingdom
July 2023Phillips Hong Kong Hong Kong
September 2022Phillips London United Kingdom
September 2022Sotheby's Online United Kingdom
June 2022Phillips London United Kingdom
April 2022Phillips London United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

Like its close cousin Cage (P19-3), Cage (P19-4) serves up a great deal of contrast with the remainder of the Cage Prints series. Also quite unlike other works in the Cage f.ff and Cage Grid series, this print is marked for its sustained use of monochromatic tones - chiefly greys -, its use of granular texture, and rejection of horizontal line. Behind visceral layers of grey paint, hidden layers of red, yellow, and black paint shine are only partially concealed, excavated from the image’s smoke-like mass by way of a palette knife.

Richter is known by many as the creative genius behind a large number of photorealistic paintings, often based on a large body of found and collected images which the artist dubs his ‘Atlas’.  These paintings, which include standout works such as Wolken (Clouds) (1969), are marked for their sustained use of the so-called ‘blur’ technique. Although not photorealistic but abstract, this print can be seen as a non-representational extension of the Richter blur. Part of the artist’s desire to deconstruct traditional artistic method, Richter sees his blur as a means to achieve a ‘technological’ mode of painting: “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.”

  • 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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