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"Abstract Painting" by Gerhard Richter sold for $ 34 million

Pictures German abstract artist Gerhard Richter from the collection of the famous rock musician Eric Clapton was sold on Friday night for the 21000000 funtov/34 million. , Said the auction house "Sotheby's", the organizer held in the British capital trades on which the picture was sold.

Canvas titled "Abstraktes Bild" /"Abstract Painting" /was sold for 21 million 321 thousand 250 pounds /34 million 212 thousand 532 dollars /. The final price is about twice the original estimated value exceeded 9.12 million lbs /14.5 million - $ 19 million /.

This price is higher than 20 times the amount that Eric Clapton once paid for a painting titled in 2001 at auction "Sotheby's".

Within five minutes of the fight for the picture were two anonymous buyer bid by phone.

The proceeds of the canvas is considerably surpassed the previous record of cost of works by Gerhard Richter, amounting to 21.8 million dollars. For the price of this painting the artist was sold in May in New York.

Gerhard Richter was born in 1932 in Dresden, in 1961 he moved from East Germany to West Germany.

Senior Director, "Sotheby's" modern art on trading Alex Blashik called auctioned painting "one of the greatest masterpieces of abstract Gerhard Richter." In the summary of the product auction house says that the picture is a "paradigm of artistic and philosophical achievements of his mature works by Gerhard Richter."

The picture is a painting, which shows the vertical stripes of red, yellow, blue and green, and one horizontal bar in the lower part of red and yellow interspersed with green.
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This is a new record for the works of living artists.

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Сообщение от Cyril Syzran (Сообщение 2295281)

... This is a new record for the works of living artists.

Then it's time to make an update for this page.
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Сообщение от Elek (Сообщение 2296931)

Then it's time to make an update for this page.
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I think the site is come to work tomorrow and make mutations both.

Today Gerhard Richter /Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) birthday.

Gerhard Richter

in the Tate Museum in London.

There has demonstrated 5-minute film, where Gerhard Richter showed how working on abstraction.
He said there is a phrase that realism for it - work, and abstract painting - fun.

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Сообщение от Jasmin (Сообщение 2988531)

He said there is a phrase that realism for it - work, and abstract painting - fun.

Generally, I have a few surprises such a creative artist of this dualism.

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Сообщение от Cyril Syzran (Сообщение 2988571)

Actually, I was somewhat surprised by such a creative artist of this dualism.

He is doing great.
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Сообщение от Jasmin (Сообщение 2988591)

He is doing great.
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So on and surprise.
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Question to the people's system monitoring auctions.
Often does happen, that the picture was bought by Sotsbis for example, when re-fielding is not sold for a large sum, or is not on sale?

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Сообщение от Orkhan (Сообщение 2989771)

Question to people follower for auctions. Often does happen , that the picture was bought by Sotsbis for example , when re- fielding is not sold for a large sum , or is not on sale ?

Anything can happen , but more often for much , since the number of printed green wrappers , every year more ...

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Сообщение от Art-ort (Сообщение 2990001)

Anything can happen, but more often for much, since the number of printed green wrappers, every year more and more ...

I think I bought one to work more excitement, even if it put up a year after the acquisition.

Yesterday thing of Gerhard Richter WAND
(WALL)

went to a new owner for £ 17,442,500 ($ 28.7 million).

The photo Oliver Barker /Oliver Barker, Vice President of Sotheby's Europe against the background of Rosso Plastica (3,666,500 GBP /6,028,460 USD) [URL
="http://forum.artinvestment.ru/showpost.php?p=2994151&postcount=4"]Albert Burri[/URL] and this thing Richter.

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Question for people follower auctions. Often does happen , that the picture was bought by Sotsbis for example , when re- fielding is not sold for a large sum , or is not on sale ?

" Moulin de la Galette " by Renoir May 17 , 1990 . sold for the Japanese Saito 78.1mln.dol . , and in 1998 the heirs were able to sell only 50 .

Added after 7 minutes

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I think I bought one to work more excitement , even if it put up a year after the acquisition .

I think that Richter is a classic example , as hyping the artist , without his special interest ( other than as the author of the pictures ) and how to make big money that people involved in this .

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Сообщение от ANATOLY (Сообщение 2996941)

" Moulin de la Galette " by Renoir May 17 , 1990 . sold for the Japanese Saito 78.1mln.dol . , and in 1998 the heirs were able to sell only 50 .

Added after 7 minutes

I think that Richter is a classic example , as hyping the artist , without his special interest ( other than as the author of the pictures ) and how to make big money that people involved in this .

And what are the methods of promotion in this case? Aside from the auction .

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Сообщение от Orkhan (Сообщение 2998461)

And what are the methods of promotion in this case?
Aside from the auction.

Read everything related to Gerhard Richter: when and who bought his paintings, exhibitions, his statement about his work and much more and it will give you food for thought.