Gerhard Richter, Motorboot - Limited Edition Print, Contemporary Art

2023

Gerhard Richter (German, b. 1932) Cage P19-3, 2020 Medium: Diasec-mounted Giclée print on aluminium composite panel Dimensions: 100 × 100 × 3 cm (39 2/5 × 39 2/5 × 1 1/5 in) Edition of 200: Numbered and labelled on verso; unsigned, as issued Publisher: HENI Editions, London Condition: Mint (shipped in original box) “One of a series of Giclée prints based on Gerhard Richter’s ‘Cage...

Thomas Ruff (German, b. 1958) Negatives I, 2016 Medium: Digital pigment print, on rag paper Dimensions: 70 x 100 cm (25.5 x 39.5 in) Edition of 40: Hand-signed and numbered on ve...

This reproduction of Abstrakte Bilder (No Text) by Gerhard Richter, a key work from the artist's acclaimed "Abstract Paintings" series, captures the essence of Richter's approach to ...

Gerhard Richter Abstract Painting (one plate) - artist authorized, 2002 Offset lithographic reproduction on GardaMatt Art 250 GSM paper with full margins. (Artist Authorized) Not signed, edition of 3433 12 1/2 × 16 1/2 inches Unframed This striking limited edition color plate, printed on GardaMatt Art 250 GSM paper with full margins, was published on the occasion of the major twin Richter exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Art (Abstract Pictures) and the Museum of Modern Art (Gerhard Richter, 40 Years of Painting), and it depicts Richters 1999 Oil on Aluminum abstract picture, catalogue raisonne reference, 858-6. This print is unframed, unnumbered and in excellent condition. More about Gerhard Richter: Gerhard Richter was born in 1932 in Dresden, Germany. Throughout his career, Richter has negotiated the frontier between photography and painting, captivated by the way in which these two seemingly opposing practices speak to and challenge one another. From exuberant canvases rendered with a squeegee and acerbic color charts to paintings of photographic detail and close-ups of a single brushstroke, Richter moves effortlessly between the two mediums, reveling in the complexity of their relationship, while never asserting one above the other. Richter’s life traces the defining moments of twentieth-century history and his work reverberates with the trauma of National Socialism and the Holocaust. In the wake of the Second World War, Richter trained in a Socialist Realist style sanctioned by East Germany’s Communist government. When he defected to West Germany in 1961, a month before the Berlin Wall was erected, Richter left his entire artistic oeuvre up to that point behind. From 1961 to 1964—alongside Blinky Palermo and Sigmar Polke—Richter studied at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he began to explore the material, conceptual, and historical implications of painting without ideological restraint. Richter’s earliest paintings in Düsseldorf, stimulated by a fascination with current affairs and popular culture, responded to images from magazines and newspaper cuttings. Through the 1960s, Richter continued to address found and media images of subjects such as military jets, portraits, and aerial photographs. Notably, he reimagined family pictures he had smuggled from East Germany that included his smiling uncle Rudi, dressed in a Nazi uniform...