Price Realized
£49,250
($76,338)
Sales totals are hammer price plus buyer’s premium and do not reflect costs, financing fees or application of buyer’s or seller’s credits.
Estimate
£40,000 - £60,000
- ($62,560 - $93,840)
Sale Information
Sale 1107
Post-War and Contemporary Art (Day Auction)
14 February 2013
London, King Street
Lot Description
Gerhard Richter (B. 1932)
Kl. Badende (Small Bather)
signed and dated 'Richter 1996' (lower right of the artist's mount); numbered '4/45' (lower left of the artist's mount); signed and numbered 'Richter 4/45' (on the backboard)
c-print on artist's mount
image: 20¾ x 14¾in. (52.7 x 37.5cm.)
overall: 26 5/8 x 19¾in. (67.5 x 50.3cm.)
Executed in 1996, this work is number four from an edition of forty-five
Special Notice
Artist's Resale Right ("droit de Suite").
If the Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer also agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
Provenance
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
H. Butin (ed.), Gerhard Richter Editions 1965-2004 Catalogue Raisonné, Ostfildern-Ruit 2004, no. 87 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, pp. 97 and 236).
Exhibited
Stuttgart, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Gerhard Richter: Survey, 2000-2012 (another from the edition exhibited). This exhibition later travelled extensively worldwide.
Berlin, me Collectors Room, Gerhard Richter - Editionen 1965-2011, 2012 (another from the edition exhibited).
Department Information
Post-War & Contemporary Art
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