Heated Bidding Battle for Richter’s Iceberg

Experience the drama of the auction house as five bidders battle it out for Gerhard Richter’s desolately beautiful Iceberg. Painted in 1982 it is the largest of only three Iceberg paintings Richter based on photographs taken during a journey through the icy straights of Greenland in 1972. The painting lead a stellar night for post-war German art in what overall was the third highest total ever for a Sotheby’s London Contemporary Sale.

 
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[granickgrant.n]

I wouldn't of paid a cent over 14million.

[granickgrant.n]

Great title for that landscape, who would of guessed.

[keenynthewise]

People In the comments who never heard of Gerhard Richter are on the wrong channel 😂

[lyricsandmoodsongs]

I hope to own a Richter painting one soon, and claiming it

[nancyadamson]

This was an exciting show of Haves flexing their purses. My fleeting thot was that so many art enthusiasts and students of art schools could do a reasonable faximily for so much less. Wdayathink?

[andyhawkins]

Is that the weight of it or are you all delusional 😂