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Grau - Signed Mixed Media by Gerhard Richter 1974 - MyArtBroker

Grau
Signed Mixed Media

Gerhard Richter

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Mixed Media, 1974
Signed Mixed Media Edition of 60
H 40cm x W 50cm

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseArtwork
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
December 2020Lempertz, Cologne - GermanyGrau - Signed Mixed Media
June 2019Lempertz, Cologne - GermanyGrau - Signed Mixed Media
April 2018Christie's Paris - FranceGrau - Signed Mixed Media
November 2014Van Ham Fine Art Auctions - GermanyGrau - Signed Mixed Media
April 2014Christie's Paris - FranceGrau - Signed Mixed Media
June 2010Ketterer Kunst Hamburg - GermanyGrau - Signed Mixed Media
December 2008Christie's London - United KingdomGrau - Signed Mixed Media

Meaning & Analysis

Grau confronts the viewer with a representation of the grey surface, unaccompanied by any colourful or figurative details. The subject of the artwork is the colour of the paint and its application itself. Richter’s choice of colour relates to its symbolic force, one aligning with the artist’s growing sense in the early 1970s that painting could never get close to the core of reality and instead only creates its “fictive models”. Grey, according to Richter, is “more than any other colour qualified not to represent anything at all”. As a neutral colour, grey is meant to correspond with a sense of despair over the impossibility of knowing and representing.

Described by the artist as “the most complete ones, which I could imagine”, such artworks as Grau represent Richter’s intellectual restlessness and an ongoing preoccupation with the nature of painting. Grau represents Richter’s exploration of a colour that has been a subject of interest to some of the most highly acclaimed twentieth-century artists, including Alberto Giacommetti, René Magritte or Pablo Picasso. The artwork links Richter to a rich lineage of artists for whom grey became a medium for engaging with the problems of painting.

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