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Gerhard Richter - Silkscreen in colors
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Gerhard Richter
Schweizer Alpen l A1, 1969
Silkscreen in colors
Starting bid:
€ 11,000
Estimate:
€ 12,000 - 18,000
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49
Gerhard Richter
Schweizer Alpen l A1, 1969
Silkscreen in colors
Starting bid:
€ 11,000
Estimate:
€ 12,000 - 18,000
End: 07-15-26 15:24:00 Berlin
07-15-26 09:24:00 New York
07-15-26 06:24:00 Los Angeles (29 days, 18h:26m)

Please enter your maximum bid, it will only be used to the extent necessary to beat the next best bid.
Bid plus 34 % buyer's premium (differential taxation without separate VAT statement, sales tax certificate upon request) and droit de suite charge without VAT.
Self pick-up: free of charge,
insured shipping:
within Germany 98,68 €,
within the EU countries 170,02 €,
outside the EU countries on request.


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Gerhard Richter
1932
Schweizer Alpen l A1. 1969.
Silkscreen in colors.
Signed. Stamped “Gerhard Richter (1969) ‘Schweizer Alpen’ A1 A2 B1 B2 B3” on the reverse, with “A1” circled in pencil. One of 300 copies. On light cardboard. 69.4 x 69.4 cm (27.3 x 27.3 in), the full sheet.
Motif A1. Sheet 1 of a series of 5 silkscreen prints based on the 1969 painting of the same name (WVZ no. of the paintings: 224/1-5), which in turn are based on photographs Richter took from an airplane window during a trip to Milan in 1968. Printed by Hans H. Hotze, Essen. Published by the Griffelkunst-Vereinigung, Hamburg. [AW].
• The Swiss Alps, rendered here in an almost abstract manner, create a striking tension between the depiction of nature and artistic interpretation.
• Color silkscreen print based on the painting of the same name.
• The Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris presents a major Gerhard Richter retrospective from October 2025 to March 2026.
• In private ownership for 50 years.

PROVENANCE: Private collection, Southern Germany (since 1976, in private ownership ever since).

LITERATURE: Hubertus Butin, Gerhard Richter. Editionen 1965-2013, Cologne 2014, CR no. 20.

In good condition. Slightly browned and with some light discoloration along the outer edges of the image. Small brown spots in the white areas of the image. A faint crease in the upper left corner and in the upper left area of the image. A very faint and barely visible crease in the upper right corner. Small, faint scuffs in the lower area of the image. Partially with small scuffs, particularly along the edges of the image on the left side.