Picture "Two Candles" (1982), natural framed version
Picture "Two Candles" (1982), natural framed version
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offset print on paper | certificate | framed | passe-partout | glazed | size 69 x 82 cm (h/w)
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Picture "Two Candles" (1982), natural framed version
Gerhard Richter is considered one of the most important contemporary artists of the 20th century. "Two Candles" is part of a series of candle pictures that Richter created between 1982 and 1983. The picture is an impressive example of photographic realism.
Original: 1982, oil on canvas. Catalogue raisonné 512-3, privately owned.
High-quality offset edition on paper. Motif size 47 x 60 cm (h/w). Collection of Marguerite and Robert Hoffman. © Gerhard Richter. Framed in natural-coloured solid wood frame with bevel cut passe-partout, glazed. With certificate. Size 69 x 82 cm (h/w).
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany, [email protected]
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Frame variant: Framing 2
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Frame variant: Framing 2
About Gerhard Richter
"I pursue no intentions, no system, no direction; I have no programme, no style, no mission." With these words, one of the most successful and versatile artists of our time describes himself - Gerhard Richter.
Born in 1932 in Dresden, Germany, Richter left his hometown two months before the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 and went to West Germany to continue his studies at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. The young artist attracted attention with his photo-realistic paintings of motifs straight out of the family album. In a time and environment in which experimental, abstract art was predominant, Richter's paintings caused a sensation.
Richter's characteristic seems to be to look for new modes of expression whenever a method he explored has successfully established itself in the art market. His figurative painting in grey was followed by monochrome grey paintings and the coloured "Vermalung" (Inpainting) that made the pictorial motif unrecognisable. In the mid-1970s, he got involved in abstraction, no less successfully than with his previous works.
Versatility extends through Gerhard Richter's entire oeuvre. He is not "only" a painter, but also a sculptor and photographer, he draws, paints in watercolours, does performances and installations. His photographs and prints are now just as sought-after as his paintings, with high prices included. His paintings take up the room and are created with full physical effort.
His fame and the high prices are sometimes scary for the artist himself, as he freely admitted in an interview with Die Zeit in 2015. However, this does not detract from the popularity of his works. Richter is an artist who, despite his outstanding status, has remained true to himself and prefers to let his art speak instead of stage-managing himself.
In 2011, his oil painting "Kerze" (Candle) from 1982 sold for almost 12 million euros at Christie's London. The painting belongs to a series that Richter painted in the early 1980s in his slightly blurred, photorealistic style. It is considered a symbol of East Germany (GDR) citizens' silent protest against the socialist regime and became one of Richter's most famous motifs.
The most important private collector of Gerhard Richter is the British musician Eric Clapton, who owns more than 50 works. And this is even though Richter's works are the most expensive of any living artist on the art market. The canvas "Abstraktes Bild" (Abstract Picture) from 1986 was sold at Sotheby's for 41 million euros. And even some of Richter's graphic works are already being traded in the six-figure range.
Gerhard Richter was awarded the Praemium Imperiale, the Nobel Prize for the arts, in 1997 and, as special recognition, a comprehensive retrospective at the New York Museum of Modern Art in 2002. With 188 works, it was the largest ever dedicated to a living artist.