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4096 Colours

1974 254 cm x 254 cm Catalogue Raisonné 359

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Sotheby's, New York, USA: 18 May 2023

Estimate: USD 18,000,000 – 25,000,000

Sold For:

USD 21,839,000 (incl. buyer’s premium)

Christie's, New York, USA: 11 May 2004

Estimate: USD 3,000,000 – 4,000,000

Sold For:

USD 3,703,500 (incl. buyer’s premium)

This artwork is based on an image included in Atlas:

This Atlas sheet includes the source images of the following works:

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Kölner Domfenster
Cologne Cathedral Window 2007 Catalogue Raisonné: 900

This artwork was shown in the following exhibitions:

COLORI: L'emozione dei COLORI nell'arte COLOURS: The Emotion of COLOURS in Art Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy 14 March 2017 – 23 July 2017

Gerhard Richter: Panorama Neue und Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany 12 February 2012 – 13 May 2012

Gerhard Richter: Panorama Tate Modern, London, UK 06 October 2011 – 08 January 2012

Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK 29 May 2009 – 13 September 2009

Color Chart: Reinventing Color from 1950 to Today The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA 02 March 2008 – 12 May 2008

Gerhard Richter Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Sakura-shi, Japan 13 November 2005 – 22 January 2006

Gerhard Richter: Painting as Mirror 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan 03 September 2005 – 26 October 2005

Gerhard Richter Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany 04 June 2005 – 21 August 2005

Gerhard Richter K20 Grabbeplatz, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany 12 February 2005 – 16 May 2005

Gerhard Richter Galerie Neue Meister, Albertinum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany 21 August 2004 – 29 January 2005

Gerhard Richter: Paintings San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco, USA 15 March 1989 – 28 May 1989

Gerhard Richter: Paintings Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA 14 December 1988 – 12 February 1989

Gerhard Richter: Paintings Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, USA 17 September 1988 – 27 November 1988

Gerhard Richter: Paintings Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto, Canada 29 April 1988 – 10 July 1988

Eröffnung der Gerhard-Richter-Räume Opening Gerhard Richter Rooms Galerie Neue Meister, Albertinum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany 19 March 2005 – 30 November -0001

This artwork is included in the following publications:

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Issue	01 January 2017
Publisher	Duke University Press, Durham
Details	Softcover, 163 pages
ISBN	9780822370017
Language	English
Category	Monographs
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 99-100

Unconsolable Contemporary: Observing Gerhard Richter

Rabinow, Paul

2017

Issue	01 January 2017
Publisher	Hirmer Verlag, München
Editor	Schreier, Christoph / Kunstmuseum Bonn
Details	Softcover, 128 pages
ISBN	9783777428970
Language	German
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 23

Exhibitions

Gerhard Richter: Über Malen / Frühe Bilder

2017

Issue	01 January 2017
Publisher	Edition Folkwang / Steidl, Göttingen
Editor	Museum Folkwang
Details	Softcover, 63 pages
ISBN	9783958293564
Language	German
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Artwork	Discussed: pp. 29

Exhibitions

Gerhard Richter: The Editions , Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany, 2017

Gerhard Richter: Die Editionen

2017

Issue	01 January 2016
Publisher	Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld
Editor	Hager, Martin
Details	Hardback, 191 pages
ISBN	9783735602589
Language	Latvian English German
Category	Group Exhibitions
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 184

Exhibitions

Elective Affinities. German Art since the Late 1960s, Latvian National Museum of Art, Arsenals Exhibition Hall, Riga, Latvia, 2016

Elective Affinities. German Art since the Late 1960s

2016

Issue	01 January 2016
Publisher	Routledge, Abingdon
Details	Hardback, 244 pages
ISBN	9781472409560
Language	English
Category	Monographs
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 147, 149 Discussed: pp. 137-143

The Artwork of Gerhard Richter. Painting, critical theory and cultural transformation

Ansted, Darryn

2016

Issue	01 January 2016
Publisher	Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow
Editor	Allenova, Ekaterina / d'Amora, Delphine
Details	Softcover, 151 pages
ISBN	9785905110818
Language	Russian English
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 21, 38, 48, 59

Exhibitions

The exhibition of Gerhard Richter: Abstraction and Appearance, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow, Russia, 2016

Gerhard Richter: Abstraction and Appearance

Moorhouse, Paul

2016

Issue	01 January 2016
Publisher	Ludwig Museum, Koblenz
Details	Softcover, 64 pages
ISBN	9783981687828
Language	German
Category	Group Exhibitions
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 59

Exhibitions

Reality and the Divine - From the Deutschherrenhaus to the Ludwig Museum 1216 - 2016, Ludwig Museum im Deutschherrenhaus, Koblenz, Germany, 2016

'Die Realität und das Göttliche'. Festschrift zum Jubiläum 1216 - 2016. Vom Deutschherrenhaus zum Ludwig Museum

Bayard, Frank / Fachbach, Jens / Heinz, Stefan / Leu, Suzana / Hesslinger, Mark R.

2016

Issue	01 January 2016
Publisher	Wienand Verlag, Köln
Editor	Groos, Ulrike / Froitzheim, Eva-Marina
Details	Softcover, 168 pages
ISBN	9783868323412
Language	German English
Category	Group Exhibitions
Artwork	Discussed: pp. 34, 39

Exhibitions

[un]expected: The Art of Chance, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, 2016

[un]erwartet. Kunst des Zufalls

2016

Issue	01 January 2015
Publisher	Wienand Verlag, Köln
Editor	Zechlin, René
Details	Hardback, 288 pages
ISBN	9783868323030
Language	German English
Category	Group Exhibitions
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 176

Exhibitions

How to live? Images of the Future from Malevich to Fujimoto, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany, 2015

Wie leben? Zukunftsbilder von Malewitsch bis Fujimoto

Banz, Claudia / Franze, Jana / Kiefer, Theresia / Leinfelder, Reinhold / Zinfert, Maria / Scheja, Yvonne / Tietenberg, Annette

2015

Issue	01 January 2015
Publisher	Dominique Lévy, New York
Details	Hardback, 140 pages
ISBN	9781944379018
Language	English
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 12, 16, 128 Discussed: pp. 23-24, 133

Exhibitions

Gerhard Richter: Colour Charts, Dominique Lévy Gallery, London, UK, 2015

Gerhard Richter: Colour Charts

Elger, Dietmar / Butin, Hubertus / Mansoor, Jaleh

2015

Issue	01 January 2014
Publisher	Marian Goodman, London
Details	Hardback, 109 pages
ISBN	9780944219232
Language	English
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 10

Exhibitions

Gerhard Richter, Marian Goodman Gallery, London, UK, 2014

Gerhard Richter

Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. / Schwarz, Dieter / Storr, Robert

2014

Issue	01 January 2012
Publisher	Édition du Centre Pompidou, Paris
Editor	Godfrey, Mark / Serota, Nicholas / Brill, Dorothée / Morineau, Camille
Details	Hardback, 304 pages
ISBN	978-2844265746
ISBN	284426574X
Language	French English
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 87, 124, 128, 202, 252, 297 Illustrated: p. 117, 161 (colour)

Exhibitions

Gerhard Richter: Panorama, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, 2012

Gerhard Richter, Panorama: une rétrospective = a retrospective

Godfrey, Mark / Serota, Nicholas / Brill, Dorothée / Morineau, Camille / Borchardt-Hume, Achim / Dickson, Amy / Haidu, Rachel / Mehring, Christine

2012

Issue	01 January 2012
Publisher	Prestel, München
Editor	Godfrey, Mark / Serota, Nicholas / Brill, Dorothée / Morineau, Camille
Details	Hardback, 305 pages
ISBN	9783791351896
Language	German
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 87, 123, 203, 249, 297 Illustrated: p. Frontcover, 117 (colour)

Exhibitions

Gerhard Richter: Panorama, Neue und Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2012

Gerhard Richter: Panorama: Retrospektive

Godfrey, Mark / Serota, Nicholas / Brill, Dorothée / Morineau, Camille / Borchardt-Hume, Achim / Dickson, Amy / Haidu, Rachel / Mehring, Christine

2012

Issue	01 January 2011
Publisher	Marsilio, Venezia
Details	Softcover, 219 pages
ISBN	9788831711128
Language	Italian
Category	Monographs
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 23, 141, 181, 190 Discussed: pp. 163-165, 168-173, 174-176, 185-186, 192 Illustrated: p. 169 (colour)

Il bordo del mondo: La forma sguardo nella pittura di Gerhard Richter

Garbin, Emanuele

2011

Issue	01 January 2011
Publisher	Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln
Details	Hardback, 862 pages
ISBN	9783863350567
Language	German
Category	Monographs
Notes	2nd ed.
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 10

The catalogue Gerhard Richter. Atlas displays 783 plates of Gerhard Richter’s Atlas. Atlas is a collection of photographs, newspaper cuttings and sketches, which the artist compiled and then arranged on single sheets

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Gerhard Richter. Atlas

Friedel, Helmut

2011

Issue	01 January 2011
Publisher	Tate Publishing, London
Details	Softcover, 288 pages
ISBN	1854379453
ISBN	978-1854379450
Language	English
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 87, 203, 251, 297 Illustrated: p. 117 (colour)

Exhibitions

Gerhard Richter: Panorama: A Retrospective

Godfrey, Mark / Serota, Nicholas / Brill, Dorothée / Morineau, Camille / Borchardt-Hume, Achim / Dickson, Amy / Haidu, Rachel / Mehring, Christine

2011

Issue	01 January 2010
Publisher	Ernst-Rietschel-Kulturring, Pulsnitz
Details	Softcover, 35 pages
ISBN	9783981280944
Language	German
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 18

Exhibitions

Gerhard Richter: Survey, Galerie im Ernst-Rietschel-Haus, Pulsnitz, Germany, 2010

Gerhard Richter: Übersicht

Schubert, Sabine / Heinze, Helmut

2010

Issue	01 January 2009
Publisher	University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL
Details	Hardback, 408 pages
ISBN	9780226203232
Language	English
Category	Monographs
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 185, 215, 221, 231, 251, 257, 336, 352 Discussed: pp. 215-217

Gerhard Richter has been widely regarded as a publicity shy artist. However, the biography Gerhard Richter. A Life in Painting gives an insight into Richter’s personal history as well as into the development of his artistic œuvre.

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Gerhard Richter. A Life in Painting

Elger, Dietmar

2009

Issue	01 January 2008
Publisher	Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit
Details	Hardback, 160 pages
ISBN	3775722483
Language	German
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Artwork	Discussed: pp. 136

Exhibitions

The book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Gerhard Richter. Abstrakte Bilder at Museum Ludwig, Cologne and Haus der Kunst, Munich. The exhibitions were dedicated to Gerhard Richter’s abstract pictures

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Gerhard Richter: Abstrakte Bilder

Wilmes, Ulrich / Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. / Söntgen, Beate / Stemmrich, Gregor

2008

Issue	01 January 2008
Publisher	DuMont, Köln
Details	Softcover, 415 pages
ISBN	9783832190651
Language	German
Category	Monographs
Notes	Corrected and extended new edition.
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 209, 388 Discussed: pp. 239

Gerhard Richter has been widely regarded as a publicity shy artist. However, the biography Gerhard Richter, Maler gives an insight into Richter’s personal history as well as into the development of his artistic œuvre.

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Gerhard Richter, Maler

Elger, Dietmar

2008

Issue	01 January 2008
Publisher	Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit
Details	Hardback, 160 pages
ISBN	9783775722490
Language	English
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Artwork	Discussed: pp. 136

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Gerhard Richter: Abstract Paintings, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany, 2008

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Gerhard Richter. Large Abstracts

Wilmes, Ulrich / Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. / Söntgen, Beate / Stemmrich, Gregor

2008

Issue	01 January 2008
Publisher	Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit
Details	Hardback, 144 pages
ISBN	9783775723442
Language	English
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 121, 125

Exhibitions

Gerhard Richter: 4900 Colours, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK, 2008

The catalogue was published to coincide with the exhibition Gerhard Richter: 4900 Colours at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 2008.

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Gerhard Richter. 4900 Colours

Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. / Gidal, Peter / Pelzer, Birgit / Peyton-Jones, Julia / Obrist, Hans Ulrich

2008

Issue	01 January 2007
Publisher	Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln
Details	Softcover, 144 pages
ISBN	9783865602985
Language	German English
Category	Monographs
Notes	This book documents Gerhard Richter's abstract, stained-glass window for Germany's historic Cologne Cathedral.
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 8, 27, 48. 70, 71, 77, 106, 113, 120 Illustrated: p. 59 (colour)

The book Gerhard Richter. Zufall. The Cologne Cathedral Window, and 4900 Colours examines the creative process behind Richter’s work at Cologne Cathedral [CR: 900].

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Gerhard Richter. Zufall. Das Kölner Domfenster und 4900 Farben = The Cologne Cathedral Window, and 4900 Colours

Diederich, Stephan / Schock-Werner, Barbara / Butin, Hubertus / Pelzer, Birgit

2007

Issue	01 January 2006
Publisher	Thames & Hudson, London
Details	Hardback, 862 pages
ISBN	9780500970171
Language	English
Category	Monographs
Notes	Encyclopedic new edition,which completely revises and updates the 1997 edition and includes 147 additional plates.
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 10

At 864 pages, this monumental and comprehensive publication maps the ideas, processes, life and times of Gerhard Richter. Conceived and closely edited by Richter himself, Atlas cuts straight to the heart of the artist's work

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Gerhard Richter. Atlas

Friedel, Helmut

2006

Issue	01 January 2006
Publisher	Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln
Details	Hardback, 862 pages
ISBN	9783883758015
Language	German
Category	Monographs
Notes	Encyclopedic new edition that completely revises and updates the 1997 edition and includes 147 additional plates.
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 10

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Gerhard Richter. Atlas

Friedel, Helmut

2006

Issue	01 January 2005
Publisher	Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf in association with D.A.P Distributed Art Publishers, New York, NY
Details	Hardback, 324 pages
ISBN	9783937572215
ISBN	393757221X
Language	English
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 52 Discussed: pp. 54-56 Illustrated: p. 359 (colour)

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This catalogue raisonné records Richter’s works in the years 1993-2004. In his work, Gerhard Richter calls into question painting's boundaries, and the labels applied to painting and theories connected with them.

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Gerhard Richter. Catalogue Raisonné 1993–2004

Zweite, Armin

2005

Issue	01 January 2005
Publisher	Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit / Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf
Details	Hardback, 96 pages
ISBN	9783775715836
Language	German English
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 90, 91 Illustrated: p. 91 (colour)

Exhibitions

Gerhard Richter: Without Colour, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland, 2005

Gerhard Richter. Ohne Farbe = Without Color

Spieler, Reinhard / Gelshorn, Julian / Kania, Elke / Krystof, Doris

2005

Issue	01 January 2002
Publisher	DuMont, Köln
Details	Hardback, 420 pages
ISBN	9783832158484
Language	German
Category	Monographs
Artwork	Discussed: pp. 230, 231, 268

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Gerhard Richter, Maler

Elger, Dietmar

2002

Issue	01 January 2000
Publisher	Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Details	Unknown binding, 6 pages
Language	English
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 4

Exhibitions

Gerhard Richter in Dallas Collections, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA, 2000

Gerhard Richter in Dallas Collections

Wylie, Charles

2000

Issue	01 January 1999
Publisher	Gli Ori, Prato
Details	Softcover, 205 pages
ISBN	8887700079
Language	Italian English
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 15, 28

Exhibitions

Gerhard Richter, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy, 1999

Gerhard Richter

Corà, Bruno / Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. / Chevrier, Jean Francois / Moscati, Italo

1999

Issue	01 January 1997
Publisher	Yale University Press, New Haven
Details	Hardback, 208 pages
ISBN	0300069758
Language	English
Category	Monographs
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 160

On Abstract Art

Fer, Briony

1997

Issue	01 January 1996
Publisher	Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit
Details	Hardback, 311 pages
ISBN	3893228608
Language	English German
Category	Group Exhibitions
Artwork	Discussed: pp. 37, 47

Exhibitions

Frieder Burda Collection: Gerhard Richter. Sigmar Polke. Arnulf Rainer, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany, 1996

Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Arnulf Rainer. Sammlung Frieder Burda = Collection Frieder Burda

Poetter, Jochen / Brehm, Margrit / Möckel, Birgit

1996

Issue	01 January 1990
Publisher	Munro-Unverzagt, Hamburg
Details	Softcover, 84 pages
ISBN	3980253805
Language	German
Category	Group Exhibitions
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Sequence: Order Must Be, But Is Being Ordered?, Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg, Germany, 1990

Reihung. Ordnung muß sein, aber ist Sein Ordnung?

Rockenschaub, Gerwald

1990

Issue	01 January 1989
Publisher	DuMont, Köln
Details	Hardback, 544 pages
ISBN	3770123727
Language	German
Category	Group Exhibitions
Artwork	Discussed: pp. 215 - 216, 218

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Image Clash: Contradiction, Unification and Fragmentation in Art since 1960, Museum Ludwig at Rheinhallen, Cologne, Germany, 1989

Bilderstreit. Widerspruch, Einheit und Fragment in der Kunst seit 1960

Gohr, Siegfried / Gachnang, Johannes

1989

Issue	01 January 1989
Publisher	Verlag Fred Jahn, München
Details	Hardback, 236 pages
Language	German
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Artwork	Discussed: pp. 14

Exhibitions

Gerhard Richter: Atlas

Zweite, Armin

1989

Issue	01 January 1987
Publisher	Marian Goodman Gallery / Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
Details	Softcover, 46 pages
Language	English
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 5, 6

Exhibitions

Gerhard Richter: Paintings, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA and Sperone Westwater, New York, USA, 1987

Gerhard Richter. Paintings

Rorimer, Anne / Zacharopoulos, Denys

1987

Issue	01 January 1986
Publisher	DuMont, Köln
Details	Softcover, 402 pages
ISBN	3770117727
Language	German English
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 37, 38, 385 Illustrated: p. 180 (b/w)

Exhibitions

Gerhard Richter. Bilder = Paintings 1962 - 1985

Harten, Jürgen / Hering, Karl-Heinz / Honisch, Dieter / Loock, Ulrich / Ronte, Dieter / Elger, Dietmar

1986

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