Sale: 541 / Contemporary Art Day Sale, June 09. 2023 in Munich Lot 172

 

172
Gerhard Richter
Tisch mit Stühlen (8.1.87), 1987.
Water-tempera and pencil on wove paper
Estimate:
€ 50,000 / $ 54,000
Sold:
€ 63,500 / $ 68,580

(incl. surcharge)
Tisch mit Stühlen (8.1.87). 1987.
Water-tempera and pencil on wove paper.
Lower right signed and dated. 16.5 x 24 cm (6.4 x 9.4 in), the full sheet.
[SM].

• The table is also the motif in the first painting mentioned in the catalogue raisonné.
• One of the few figurative watercolors in this small group.
• Even though Richter increasingly turned to abstraction in the 1980s, he also made still lifes, landscapes and portraits at that time
.

The work is mentioned in the online catalogue raisonné.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich.
Galerie Casteel, Mönchengladbach.
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.

LITERATURE: Dieter Schwarz, Gerhard Richter. Aquarelle = Watercolors, 1999, pp. 14, 26 and 143.
Klaus Albrecht Schröder (ed.), Gerhard Richter: Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, 2009, pp. 13, 31.




172
Gerhard Richter
Tisch mit Stühlen (8.1.87), 1987.
Water-tempera and pencil on wove paper
Estimate:
€ 50,000 / $ 54,000
Sold:
€ 63,500 / $ 68,580

(incl. surcharge)