She ended up with a total of $12,352,550 the auction FIRST OPEN - Post-War and Contemporary Art, with about 300 lots at auction from Christies's New York, Rockefeller Plaza.
Under the direction of Saara Pritchard, the first session opened with an exceptional group of works donated to benefit the arts activities of the Brooklyn Museum and Artists Space.
The Top Lot work is Ohne Titel by Gerhard Richter, German artist born in 1932.
Ohne Titel (9.4.86) is undoubtedly a suggestive work that expresses an infinite potential, as if it wants to justify the creation and vocation of Gerhard Richter. Despite the small size (124.5 x 95.5 cm.) compared to Richter's large works, it possesses the same intense energy generally reserved for the artist's large canvases.
Ohne Titel (9.4.86) is among Richter's most ambitious works on paper (oil on paper) both in terms of size and execution. An important painting where Richter perfectly combines pigment diffusion techniques over the entire surface of the paper with lively brushstrokes, obtaining the creation of a formal dialogue between the mechanical process and the artist's hand.
In him there is the ability to transform colors close to the masters of the German Renaissance, such as Stephen Edlis who suggested the colors red, blue, yellow to Richter. While we find the acid color of Drer, Altdorfer and Grnewald” (S. Edlis, quoted in R. Storr eds. , Gerhard Richter: Forty years of painting, EXH cat, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2002, p 71)… . As Camille Morineau has noted, Richter uses color randomly in wholly unexpected combinations with ideas of combination and separation continuing, albeit in different ways” (C. Morineau, “Le Blow-Up, Primary Colors and Duplications,” M. Godfrey of Great Britain and Serota (ed.), Gerhard Richter: Panorama, EXH cat, Tate Modern, London, p. 129).
Richter's technical characteristic is to build his abstractions from the application of thickness, as well as the partial erasure of layers of paint, which has become a metaphor for the artist's assessment of nature's cycle of creation and destruction. This idea is reinforced through the intensity of Richter's vibrant colors. According to Richter, his abstract works are models and metaphors, “images that render the possibility of a social coexistence”. He states: “Seen this way, all I am trying to do in each picture is to bring together the most disparate and mutually contradictory elements, alive and vital, in as much freedom as possible” (G. Richter as quoted in B. Buchloh, 1986, Richter, Text, Schriften und Interviews, Frankfurt, 1993).
Top Lots:
GERHARD RICHTER (B. 1932) – OHNE TITLE (9486) - Realized price $782,500
PETER DOIG (B. 1959) – COBOURG 3+1 MORE - Realized price $626,500
HARRY BERTOIA (1915-1978) DANDELION FROM THE HILTON HOTEL, DENVER, COLORADO – Realized price $362,500
FRANK STELLA (B. 1936) – UNTITLED - Realized price $374,500
GERHARD RICHTER (B. 1932) – GRÜN-BLAU-ROT – Realized price $362,500
GERHARD RICHTER (B. 1932) – FUJI - Realized price $350,500
ANDREAS GURSKY (B. 1955) – ATLANTA - Realized price $314,500
GERHARD RICHTER (B. 1932) FELSENLANDSCHAFT – Realized price $278,500
