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

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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.

[Elek]

Сообщение от Cyril Syzran

... 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

Then it's time to make an update for this page.

I think the site is come to work tomorrow and make mutations both.

[Кирилл Сызранский]

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

[Jasmin]

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

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.

[Jasmin]

Сообщение от Cyril Syzran

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

He is doing great.
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[Кирилл Сызранский]

Сообщение от Jasmin

He is doing great.
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So on and surprise.
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[Orkhan]

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?

[Art-ort]

Сообщение от Orkhan

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 ...