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Flow (P4) - Unsigned Print by Gerhard Richter 2014 - MyArtBroker

Flow (P4)
Unsigned Print

Gerhard Richter

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Medium: Digital Print

Edition size: 500

Year: 2014

Size: H 45cm x W 45cm

Signed: No

Format: Unsigned Print

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The value of Gerhard Richter’s Flow (P4) is estimated to be worth between £1,800 and £2,750. This unsigned digital print, created in 2014, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 6%. This work has an auction history of seven total sales since its entry to the market in September 2016. Over the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £2,522 in April 2022 to £2,800 in March 2020, demonstrating an average annual growth rate of 3%. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 500.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
April 2022Karl & Faber Germany
March 2020Sotheby's London United Kingdom
June 2018Sotheby's Milan Italy
September 2017Sotheby's London United Kingdom
June 2017Ketterer Kunst Hamburg Germany
January 2017Lempertz, Cologne Germany
September 2016Sotheby's London United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

A far cry from Richter’s Cage Prints, Cage f.ff and Cage Grid series, each of which reference the artist’s 2006 ‘Cage’ paintings, this work appears all the more open to the constructive powers of error - a force Richter refers to lovingly as ‘chance’. Unlike the rigid, procedural abstracts produced with home-made squeegees, such as Cage Grid I Single Part L (2011) or Cage f.ff II (2015), Flow (P4) is a print imbued with a sense of fluidity. Product of an altogether more ‘loose’ approach, the print is dominated by yellow, green, red, and black sections of paint; a work of painterly alchemy, it evokes the chemical basis of the diluted oil paint used to create it, as well as the independent movement and interaction of these hues and chemicals in the moments directly following their first application.

Born in Dresden in 1932, Richter’s early contacts with art and the art world were ideologically and stylistically conflicting, and have gone on to influence his deconstructive approach in profound ways. Richter’s first known work was a mural entitled Communion With Picasso (1955) - a piece that suggested the artist’s profound influence by modernism. This work, however, was painted for the cantine of the Dresden Academy, where Richter received a strict, ‘socialist realist’ training. At the Academy, Richter was duty bound to create visual representations of the ‘workers’ struggle’, which were designed to fuel the East German consciousness with hopeful images vaunting the benefits of communism. In 1959, Richter visited the dokumenta II exhibition in the West German city of Kassel; later, having escaped to the West in 1961, he studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, later pioneering a style named Capitalist Realism.

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