Gerhard Richter’s painting Abstraktes Bild, 1986, will headline Sotheby’s upcoming evening sale of modern and contemporary art in London, with an estimate in excess of £20 million (US$24.4 million).

German artist Gerhard Richter is widely regarded as one of the most important—if not the most important—artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. His distinctive, large-format abstract paintings and ...

A painting of a skull by German artist Gerhard Richter, which was unveiled Tuesday in Hong Kong for the first time in 30 years, will lead Christie’s post-war and contemporary art evening auction in ...

A splashy new show of colorful abstract paintings by Gerhard Richter at Phillips is the New York auction house’s biggest private sale exhibition ever, reports Bloomberg. The 11 works on view, 9 of ...

Richter 858 was published on the occasions of the first American exhibition of the 858 suite of eight abstract pictures, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, from Sept. 26, 2002, through April 1 ...

Colours fuse and split, curdle, judder and smear in the elusive work of a nonagenarian artist still out to surprise The strength and pleasure of Gerhard Richter’s work lies in its boundlessness, its ...

As they cultivate a mass audience for contemporary art, museums continue to insinuate that artists persist in their work for our sake. "Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting," which opens today at ...

One hundred works by the German artist will be a highlight of a new Berlin museum. But the building’s costs have ballooned, and Richter is taking a cautious approach to handing the pieces over. By ...