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Gerhard Richter fled East Germany for the West in 1961 and developed a practice deliberately split between photorealist gray-scale paintings - blurred reproductions of newspaper and family photographs - and pure abstract work made by dragging a squeegee across wet paint. He has refused to privilege either mode, treating their coexistence as a statement about the impossibility of a single pictorial truth. His Abstraktes Bild (809-4) sold for £30.4 million at Sotheby's in 2012.
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