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Abstraktes Bild (797-2)

Maker
Gerhard Richter
Year
1993
Rank
18 of 100

Abstraktes Bild (797-2)

Abstraktes Bild (797-2) by Gerhard Richter (1993) is ranked 18 in the FLOAT 100 for Fine art. It sold for $33,000,000 on 15 November 2021. Marquee single-owner Richter; dated, well-documented recent trophy comp.

What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?

Marquee single-owner Richter; dated, well-documented recent trophy comp.

Oil on canvas, ~2.4 m (unique); Macklowe Collection

What is the best-sourced number for it?

Figure
$33,000,000
Kind
Realized at auction
Date
15 November 2021

Sotheby's New York, The Macklowe Collection; $28.5M hammer, ~$33M with fees, native USD

This is a realized sale. Somebody paid it. Source.

How this is made

The figure
One reference price, taken from a named public source and shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
Realized or not
A realized price is a completed sale. A market asking price and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
Why no grade ladder
Most FLOAT 100 entries are individual objects. There is one of this, so there is no population and no spread across grades to show.
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