Gerhard Richter on Grey
Grey. It makes no statement whatever; it evokes neither feelings nor associations: it is really neither visible nor invisible. Its inconspicuousness gives it the capacity to mediate, to make visible, in a positively illusionistic way, like a photograph. It has…
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Gerhard Richter – Abstraktes Bild (809-4)
The biggest art market news from last week was the sale of a Gerhard Richter painting by Sotheby’s that has broken the record for the amount paid for the work of any living artist. I’m a big fan of Richter,…
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Gerhard Richter – October 18, 1977
Gerhard Richter is a German artist, best known as a painter, particularly oil on canvas. He’s been one of my favourites for years, and I’m not alone: at auction his work achieves higher prices than any other living artist, approximately…
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Stephan Balleux
Sometimes people talk about an artist being a “a painter’s painter”. This is a painter who really revels in painting itself, and whose work is more about actually painting than about making paintings “of” things. Stephan Balleux is like that….
Is the Art Market About to Crash Again?
The prices being fetched for fine art at auction these days are, to put it frankly, mind-boggling. According to Artprice, a French company that tracks the global art market, the total value of all works sold June 2012 to June…
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