A 1986 abstract painting by Gerhard Richter brought in $46.3 million on Tuesday as part of a Sotheby’s auction of contemporary European art. The London sale brought in a total of $188.2 million, which ...

Three years ago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened a blockbuster exhibition by Gerhard Richter—one of the most important artists working today—that was shuttered by the pandemic after only nine ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A painting by the German artist Gerhard Richter owned by British singer-songwriter Eric Clapton is slated for auction. Christie”s is offering “Abstract Painting” in New York on Nov. 15 ...

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 ...

German painter Gerhard Richter feels at times like half-a-dozen artists rolled into one. In his figurative work, he ranges from near-photorealism to a kind of “distortionism” in which photograph-based ...

Gerhard Richter Painting, a new documentary on the 80-year-old German artist Gerhard Richter, takes us right into his Cologne studio. Devoting most of its screen time to the artist at work, the ...

Gerhard Richter’s “Cage” suite of large paintings, commissioned for the 2007 Venice Biennale, are almost scenographic in sweep. The epic paintings are unabashedly theatrical, aggressively setting the ...

An art film in the literal sense, German helmer Corinna Belz's intelligently assembled observational docu "Gerhard Richter Painting" offers fascinating insight into the working process of the famed ...