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...In April, Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie opens a show of 100 of Richter’s works, while David Zwirner gallery, which recently took over the commercial representation of the 90-year-old artist, promises a solo...
...There was no such luck for Gerhard Richter’s “Abstraktes Bild” (1986), bought for £677,600 in 2003 and back on the market at Sotheby’s on October 12 with a hefty £16mn-£24mn estimate, a level too high to...
...Gerhard Richter copied old snapshots, blurring them into uncertainty by grisaille paint....
...Caspar David Friedrich in Germany To mark the 250th anniversary of the artist’s birth, Germany has designated 2024 the Year of Caspar David Friedrich (caspardavid250.de)....
...Rees-Mogg told the BBC on Wednesday that seismic limits for fracking were “too low” and would need to be altered from the 0.5 threshold on the Richter scale that triggers a stop in activity....
...Gerhard Richter designed a huge abstract window on Cologne Cathedral, a joyful pixelated mass of colour....
...In another major art-world move, artist Gerhard Richter has left Marian Goodman, who represented him for nearly 40 years, for David Zwirner, who will show him in New York in March 2023....
...The collection features artworks from Jasper Johns, Alberto Giacometti, Georgia O’Keeffe, Gerhard Richter, Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, David Hockney and Yayoi Kusama....
...The first part of the auction also included pieces by Georgia O’Keeffe, Jasper Johns, David Hockney, Gerhard Richter, Louise Bourgeois, Wassily Kandinsky and Sandro Botticelli....
...There are also three oils by David Hockney, topped by his bright “The Gate” (2000), which Allen bought at Phillips in 2016 for $7mn, now estimated at the same level....
...The first quake, measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale, struck just after 4am with people in their beds....
...Now try this A happy bit of news to start 2023 with: the composer Max Richter is this week’s Composer of the Week on Radio 3....
...Zwirner who hit the jackpot this month, taking over Goodman’s representation of German heavyweight Gerhard Richter....
...From: Rutherford@monkwellstrategy.com To: DavidL@Fracarys.com Thanks David....
...Her bidder peppered the sale as she won works including a 1971 cloud study by Gerhard Richter (£11.2mn with fees, est £6mn-£8mn) and underbid on the evening’s top lot, David Hockney’s third-party guaranteed...
...In my first Art Basel, I sold a [Gerhard] Richter abstract for $240,000.” At this year’s fair, Richter’s “I.G.” (1993) sold for an undisclosed price, put at “above $10mn” by the gallery....
...The total proceeds of the Macklowes’ works beat the $835mn auction record for a private collection set in 2018 when more than 1,500 works owned by Peggy and David Rockefeller were sold....
...Leased in 1916 by Vanessa Bell and her friend and lover Duncan Grant, and Grant’s partner David Garnett, Charleston was a small farm a few miles outside Lewes that was quickly reconvened as a progressive...
...The highest price of the evening was $33mn for Gerhard Richter’s 1994 “Abstraktes Bild” ($37mn with fees, est $35mn)....
...abstract is better than that Richter abstract, but also the people who ask, ‘Who’s Gerhard Richter?’”...
...Gerhard Richter was best man at his parents’ wedding. Nam June Paik became his godfather after a “Fluxus baptism”. “Everything we did was related to art....
...David Cameron’s government put a de facto moratorium in place in 2015 for new onshore wind farms in England after a backlash from Tory MPs....
...(“Max Richter – musician of the moment”)....
...A tireless self-promoter and canny operator, Achenbach sold works by the likes of Pablo Picasso, Oskar Kokoschka, Gerhard Richter, Jörg Immendorff and Günther Uecker to a range of corporate clients, at the...
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