Part I: Paintings, Works on Paper and Sculptures
Monday, 24 June 2024, 06:00 pm
Lot 71
Gerhard Richter, 1932 (DE)
Black, Red, Gold I, 1998
Oil on soft cardboard, mounted on cardboard.
H 420 mm W 295 mm.
Signed and dated in lower center: Richter, 98. Inscribed upper center: 224.
Verso on label typographically titled: Black, Red, Gold. (Frame).
| CHF | 12'000 / 15'000 |
| EUR | 12'000 / 15'000 |
| USD | 13'000 / 16'000 |
Hammer Price: CHF 11'000
Provenance:
Swiss Private Property.
Literature:
Butin/Gronert/Olbricht 107. In the artist's online catalogue raisonné under the number Editions WVZ: 107.
This collage of three monochrome squares painted with oil paint was created in connection with the commissioned work Schwarz, Rot, Gold [WVZ: 856] for the German Bundestag in Berlin. Richter used a selection of four shades of black, four shades of red and four shades of gold to create two collages of 64 different colour combinations. Above the monochrome squares is the "numerical code", here ‘224’, which refers to the colours used. Each copy of the edition has an individual colour scheme.