Sale: 591 / Day Sale, June 07. 2025 in Munich button next Lot 257

 

257
Gerhard Richter
Vermalung (grau), 1971.
Oil paint, applied with the fingers, on plastic...
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 33,900
Sold:
€ 34,290 / $ 38,747

(incl. surcharge)
Vermalung (grau). 1971.
Oil paint, applied with the fingers, on plastic paper.
Signed, dated "8.9.71", numbered and inscribed "G 1031" on the reverse. 39.9 x 40 cm (15.7 x 15.7 in). [KA].

• Unique character: Richter uses his fingers instead of a brush, giving the painting its unique appearance.
• An especially early “Inpainting,” a key group in Richter's art of the early 1970s.
• Richter experiments with gestural painting in his “Inpaintings.”
• To mark the 20th anniversary of the Gerhard Richter Archive, the Dresden State Art Collections will open a major exhibition on the artist's work at the end of 2025
.

We are grateful to Mr Hubertus Butin for his kind expert advice.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Southern Germany.

EXHIBITION: (Selection, each a different copy):
Ulbricht Collection, Städtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn, Feb. 10–March 28, 1982; Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, October 16–Nov. 10, 1982; Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Sep. 4–Oct. 16, 1983.
Gerhard Richter. Editions 1965–1993, Kunsthalle Bremen, Oct. 24–Nov. 21, 1993, cat. no. 37 (illustrated).
Gerhard Richter in Dallas Collections, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA, Feb. 12–Apr. 16, 2000.
Monet, Kandinsky, Rothko und die Folgen. Wege der abstrakten Malerei, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna, Feb. 28–June 29, 2008.
The Immediate Touch: German, Austrian, Swiss Drawings from St. Louis Collections, 1946–2007, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, USA, June 29–Sept. 7, 2008.
Gerhard Richter. Retrospective, Albertina, Vienna, Jan. 30–May 3, 2009.
Gerhard Richter. Editions 1965–2011, me Collectors Room, Berlin, Feb. 12–May 13, 2012.
Gerhard Richter. Die Editionen, Folkwang Museum, Essen, April 7–July 30, 2017.
From Düsseldorf to Dallas: Postwar German Art in the DMA Collection, Dallas Museum of Art, USA, Oct. 21, 2018–Jan. 27, 2019.

LITERATURE: Hubertus Butin, Gerhard Richter. Editionen 1965-2013, Cologne 2014, catalogue raisonné no. 45 (illustrated).
- -
(each a different copy):
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh (ed.), Gerhard Richter, Centre Georges Pompidou, Museé national d'art moderne, Paris 1977, p. 49.
Bruno Corà (ed.), Gerhard Richter, Museo Pecci, Prato 1999, pp. 18 and 31.
Reinhard Spieler (ed.), Gerhard Richter, Ohne Farbe = Without Color, Ostfildern-Ruit/Burgdorf 2005, pp. 66-67 (illustrated)
Karsten Thormaehlen (ed.), Love Kills. “Betting on the Muse.” Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), Mörfelden-Walldorf 2010, pp. 71 (illustrated) and 98.
Lelia Packer (ed.), Monochrome: Painting in Black and White, London 2017, pp. 8 and 17.
Thomas Olbricht (ed.), Gerhard Richter, Unikate in Serie, Cologne 2017, pp. 102–103 (illustrated)
Philipp Bollmann (ed.), Leben in Bildern: Ein Porträt des Sehens, Cologne 2023, p. 53 (illustrated).




257
Gerhard Richter
Vermalung (grau), 1971.
Oil paint, applied with the fingers, on plastic...
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 33,900
Sold:
€ 34,290 / $ 38,747

(incl. surcharge)

 


Munich
Headquarters
Joseph-Wild-Str. 18
81829 Munich
Phone: +49 89 55 244-0
Fax: +49 89 55 244-177
info@kettererkunst.de
Hamburg
Louisa von Saucken / Undine Schleifer
Holstenwall 5
20355 Hamburg
Phone: +49 40 37 49 61-0
Fax: +49 40 37 49 61-66
infohamburg@kettererkunst.de
Berlin
Dr. Simone Wiechers / Nane Schlage
Fasanenstr. 70
10719 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 88 67 53-63
Fax: +49 30 88 67 56-43
infoberlin@kettererkunst.de
Cologne
Cordula Lichtenberg
Gertrudenstraße 24-28
50667 Cologne
Phone: +49 221 510 908-15
infokoeln@kettererkunst.de
Baden-Württemberg
Hessen
Rhineland-Palatinate

Miriam Heß
Phone: +49 62 21 58 80-038
Fax: +49 62 21 58 80-595
infoheidelberg@kettererkunst.de
Never miss an auction again!
We will inform you in time.

 
Subscribe to the newsletter now >

© 2025 Ketterer Kunst GmbH & Co. KG Privacy policy