''Wand (Wall)'' is an oil painting by

Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter (; born 9 February 1932) is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. He is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary German ...

executed in 1994. It was in Richter's private collection for over 15 years before he sold it to the Wako Works of Art gallery in

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in 2010. It was sold at

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, London, on 12 February 2014 for £17,442,500.

Bibliography

* Exhibition Catalogue, London, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, ''Gerhard Richter'', 1998, p. 87, no. 806, illustrated in colour * '' art Das Kunstmagazin'', no. 12, December 1999, front cover, illustrated in colour * Robert Storr, ''Gerhard Richter: Malerei, Ostfildern'' 2002, p. 245, illustrated in colour * Joost Zwagerman, ''Transito'', Amsterdam/Antwerp 2006, pp. 160–61, illustrated in colour

References

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