May 22, 2018 - Sale 2479

Sale 2479 - Lot 283

Unsold
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
GERHARD RICHTER
Besetztes Haus.

Black and gray offset print on white lightweight cardboard, 1990. 435x600 mm; 17 1/4x23 1/2 inches, full margins. Signed, dated and numbered 68/100 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Passavia Druckerei, Passau. Published by Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, for Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt am Main. A very good impression.

Besetztes Haus is based on a same-titled oil by Richter from 1989. According to Butin, "The house depicted is one of the most famous squatters' buildings in Cologne (Ludolf-Camphausen Strasse 36), close to Gerhard Richter's old studio (Bismarckstrasse 50)." Butin 73.