Among the serigraphs and lithographs selected by the PIASA Publishing Department for its half-yearly sale on Wednesday, December 11, 2019, several very large format works stand out for their expressive power.
The Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden is the original breeding ground in which Gerhard Richter became familiar with painting. When he graduates, he gets a workshop for three years. Very influenced by the abstract painting of the American Jackson Pollock and the Italian Lucio Fontana, he moved west to settle in Düsseldorf. It was there that he became Karl-Otto Götz's student and met Konrad Fischer-Lueg.
Gerhard Richter (né en 1932) Bagdad II - 2014
Estimate : 4000 / 6000 €
Both a photographer of everyday life and a painter of a often recomposed reality, he reproduces on his canvases the subjects of his photos. Landscapes, still lifes and intimate scenes thus dot a work that is also essentially made up of abstract works that he invariably calls Abstraktes Bild ("Abstract Canvas").
Gerhard Richter (né en 1932) Blattecke - 2015
Estimate : 1500 / 2500 €
The documentary sources of Gerhard Richter's work: press photos, his own photos, the amateur photos he collects, were gathered to form an atlas first exhibited in 1972. In addition to his personal exhibitions, he teaches in several art schools, notably in Hamburg, Düsseldorf but also in Halifax, Canada.
Among the works offered for sale by PIASA, Victoria I & Victoria II, a pair of two lithographs made from 1986 onwards, is estimated at between 10,000 and 15,000 euros.
Gerhard Richter (né en 1932) Victoria I & Victoria II - 1986 - 2003
Estimate : 10000 / 15000 €
Published in 450 copies, it is the scene of the chromatic deployment of which the painter is capable. The traces of painting materialize the artist's gesture while remaining the vestige of the moment of creation.
While Gerhard Richter's work has been acclaimed by critics and the public, as evidenced by the success of the retrospective of his work at the Centre Pompidou in 2012, it is also distinguished by the exceptional prices it can achieve at auctions. By being awarded more than 37 million dollars on May 14, 2013, "Domplatz, Mailand" becomes the most expensive work for a living artist.
