Abstract image (809-1)
| Abstract image (809-1) |
|---|
| Gerhard Richter , 1994 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 225 × 250 cm |
| Privately owned
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The abstract picture (809-1) is a painting by the Dresden artist Gerhard Richter from 1994. In 2013, it was ranked 6th in the top ten list of Richter's most expensive pictures.
Abstract Image (809-1) is the first of a series of four images. Abstract image (809-3) belongs to the collection of the Tate Gallery in London . After Eric Clapton put the painting Abstract Image (809-4) up for auction, it fetched 34,190,757 US dollars at Christie's in 2013. At the same auction, Abstract Image (809-2) was sold for 3,119,403. US dollars auctioned.
Provenance
The picture was shown for the first time in the exhibition "Gerhard Richter: Painting in the Nineties" in the Anthony d'Offay Gallery in London and acquired from the exhibition by Heiner Pietzsch . It was shown from June to August 2000 in the Dresden Residenzschloss in the exhibition “Dalí, Miró, Picasso ... Collection Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch, June-August 2000”. In 2001 Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch put the picture up for auction at Sotheby’s in New York, where Eric Clapton bought it together with two other Richter pictures for a total of 2.6 million euros . The Abstract Image (809-1) for Clapton was auctioned on November 12, 2013 in New York at Christie's auction house, where it fetched US $ 20,885,000 .
description
The abstract picture is in the autumnal colors of scarlet, emerald green, golden and lemon yellow with dotted flecks of purple and Prussian blue .
The complicated and drawn-out process of its creation can still be seen in the picture. The stripes or spots of color applied quickly and rather randomly with the brush are pulled down to the lower edge of the picture with the help of a board on the canvas, they dry on, layers in other colors are applied here and there. Again randomly distributed with the board, they dry again, layers of paint are scraped off here and there down to the painting surface. These processes are repeated until the painter considers the picture complete. The vertical and horizontal lines created by the movement of the board seem to give the picture with its abundance of colors a certain structure and convey a certain aspect of calm and harmony. The process of creation remains recognizable in the painting, which at the same time remains “veiled”. According to the artist, these paintings are to a large extent dependent on chance and in their final version often contradict his initial pictorial idea.
The picture is signed, numbered and dated on the back.
literature
- Gerhard Richter . Catalog raisonné 1993-2004. Dusseldorf 2005. pp. 270 and 309, No. 809-1.
swell
- Abstract image (809-1), Christie's auction
- Eric Clapton is auctioning Richter-Bild at record price Welt.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Top ten list ( Memento from October 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Gerhard Richter. Photos. Catalog raisonné: 809-4 , accessed on June 7, 2015.
- ↑ Gerhard Richter Abstract Image (809-4) Sold for $ 34 million , accessed June 7, 2015.
- ^ Gerhard Richter. Painting. A film by Corinna Belz. 2011.