#wait is this tiny gift lot really the cover image of the afternoon sale?

[gregdotorg]

With a couple of exceptions Gerhard Richter really began making his overpainted photographs in 1989. He developed various gestures, pressing the 4x6 in. prints against his messy squeegee, into each other, and sometimes splattering them with paint. Then he'd give them away. This one, of Cologne Cathedral with an aurora borealis of squeegee paint, is dated 1.8.1989 [which is August 1, btw, not January 8], and is selling at Phillips in Nov. 2023.