Name: Cage Grid I Single Part A
Brand: Gerhard Richter
Rating: 5 (236 reviews)

Track auction value trend

The value of Gerhard Richter's Cage Grid I Single Part A (signed) is estimated to be worth between £60,000 to £90,000. This Giclée print, created in 2011, has an auction history of two sales since its entry to the market on 17th October 2014. The current average annual growth rate is 12%. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 4.

Meaning & Analysis

Part of the Cage Grid series, Cage Grid I Single Part A is a signed giclée print by internationally regarded German visual artist, Gerhard Richter. Depicting a section of one of the artist’s 2006 Cage paintings, the print was issued in a very limited edition of 4 in 2011.

Together with Cage f.ff I, Cage f.ff II, Cage f.ff III, and Cage f.ff IV - works in the Cage f.ff series - this print is product of Richter’s alleged engagement with the music of avant-garde composer, John Cage, during the early part of the 2000s. A standout example of the artist’s signature approach to abstraction, a product of his highly regimented, prescriptive use of both ‘classic’ oil paints and large, home-made ‘squeegees’, the work is a dramatic assemblage of green and white paint. It is an abstract example of Richter’s longstanding fascination with ‘blurring’ - a technique he has also put to use in his photorealist paintings, such as the iconic Kerze (1988).

Portraying a detail from one of Richter’s 2006 Cage paintings, the print is resolutely non-representational. Demanding what famous curator and art critic Hans Ulrich Obrist describes as an ‘infinite process of looking’, it refers to an original work created during a period when Richter had been spending hours listening to Cage’s music, famed for its atonality and meditative qualities.