25th Jun, 2025 19:00
Modern & Contemporary Art
89
Gerhard Richter (German 1932-)
Meer
offset lithograph
Artwork date: 1973
Signature details: signed, dated and numbered 195/250 in pencil bottom right; stamped with the artist's name, the date, title, medium and dimensions on the backing sheet
Edition: from an edition of 250 + 12 TPs and 2 APs
Exchange Rates*: USD 2 520 – 3 781
GBP 1 862 – 2 793
EURO 2 134 – 3 201
Condition Report
The overall condition is good.
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offset lithograph
Artwork date: 1973
Signature details: signed, dated and numbered 195/250 in pencil bottom right; stamped with the artist's name, the date, title, medium and dimensions on the backing sheet
Edition: from an edition of 250 + 12 TPs and 2 APs
Exchange Rates*: USD 2 520 – 3 781
GBP 1 862 – 2 793
EURO 2 134 – 3 201
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image size: 24.5 x 24.5 cm; framed size: 67.5 x 65.5 x 2 cm
Provenance:
Private collection, Cape Town.
Examples from the edition were exhibited in:
Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna, Gerhard Richter: Landscape, 1 October 2020 to 7 March 2021.
Folkwang Museum, Essen, Gerhard Richter: The Editions, 7 April to 30 July 2017.
Edition Block, Berlin, Gerhard Richter. Canary Landscapes, 10 February to 22 April 2017.
Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich, Claire Obscure, 5 February to 2 April 2016.
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Gerhard Richter: Editions from the Olbricht Collection 1965–2012, 31 January to 21 April 2013.
me Collectors Room, Berlin, Gerhard Richter: Editions 1965–2011, 12 February to 13 May 2012.
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Coastlines: Images of Land and Sea, 25 April to 22 August 2010.
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Gold Leaf: Masterpieces from the Graphic Art Collection of Museum Morsbroich, 27 January to 30 March 2008.
Cultuurcentrum Strombeek Grimbergen, Strombeek-Bever, Gerhard Richter: Panorama, 15 February to 16 March 2008.
Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Gerhard Richter: Survey, 3 September to 16 October 2005.
Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Gerhard Richter: Printed! Prints, Photo Editions and Artists' Books, 23 July to 16 October 2005.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Gerhard Richter: Printed! Prints, Photo Editions and Artists' Books, 28 May to 17 July 2005.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco, Points of Departure: Connecting with Contemporary Art, March 23 to October 28 2001.
RHA Galleries, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, The Sea and the Sky, 30 June to 27 July 2000.
Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, The Sea and the Sky, 17 February to 25 April 2000.
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Gerhard Richter in Dallas Collections, 12 February to 16 April 2000.
Felsenvilla, Baden, Sharawadgi, 18 October to 20 December 1998.
Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Gerhard Richter: Editions 1965–1993, 24 October to 21 November 1993.
Galerie Bernd Slutzky, Frankfurt am Main, Gerhard Richter: Early Prints, 16 January to 10 April 1992.
Galerie Bernd Lutze, Friedrichshafen, Gerhard Richter: Paintings and Prints, 1962–1978, Part II, 9 May to 23 June 1979.
Galerie Bernd Lutze, Friedrichshafen, Gerhard Richter: Paintings and Prints, 1962–1978, Part I, 16 March to 26 May 1979.
COLLECTIONS:
The artist is represented in numerous local and international collections, notably, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and National Portrait Gallery, London.
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Auction: Modern & Contemporary Art, 25th Jun, 2025
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