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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Gerhard Richter’s Domplatz, Mailand At Sotheby's

On 14 May 2013 Sotheby’s will present a 20th century masterwork by Gerhard Richter as the preeminent highlight of the spring Contemporary Art Evening Auction. Domplatz, Mailand was the result of a commission by Siemens Elettra to produce a monumental work for their Milan offices in 1968. The canvas was Richter’s most ambitious to date; spanning in excess of 9 by 9 feet, it was the largest figurative work he had created and its sheer technical accomplishment was remarkable. Today, the work stands as the epitome of the artist’s celebrated 1960s photo-painting canon. Domplatz, Mailand hung in Siemens’ offices for 30 years before appearing in a Sotheby’s London auction in 1998 where it was acquired by the esteemed Pritzker family of collectors for a then record price and subsequently hung in their Park Hyatt Hotel in Chicago for over a decade. The painting is now being sold by the Hyatt Hotels Corporation and carries an estimate of $30/40 million. Domplatz, Mailand is currently on view in Hong Kong, and will be shown in Zurich and London before the pre-sale exhibition opens in New York on 3 May.



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