And we’re back into it . . . . This morning Sotheby’s announced a big Richter Abstrakt painting for its Frieze sale:

Sotheby’s is delighted to announce that its Contemporary Art Evening Auction in London on Friday, 12^th October 2012 will be led by an abstract masterwork by Gerhard Richter. Fresh to the market, the artist’s 1994 oil on canvas, Abstraktes Bild (809-4), is estimated at £9-12 million ($14.1-18.8 million) and comes from the collection of Eric Clapton.

Produced as part of a concise series of four works numbered 809 in Richter’s Catalogue Raisonné, monumentally scaled and richly chromatic Abstraktes Bild (809-4) ranks alongside the very highest tier of Richter Abstracts housed in museums internationally.

Gerhard Richter PR Oct 2012