Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Meditate in a chapel of Richters at Christie's New York galleries.
When Marian Goodman began representing Gerhard Richter in 1985, she was not following consensus. Richter was admired in Germany, but in the United States his reputation had yet to take hold. Over the decades that followed, Goodman became a key figure in advancing his reception in the United States and abroad.
The paintings she lived with suggest how deeply that conviction ran.
'These works present new tensions between abstraction and representation, between personal and collective memory, through a deeply truthful representation of the intertwined legacies of Richter and Marian Goodman,’ Johanna Flaum, Christie’s Vice Chairman of 20th and 21st Century Art, says.
On view at our New York galleries through 18 May. Admission is free and open to all.
📍 Find us at 20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020
🔗 Explore more from Breaking Ground: The Private Collection of Marian Goodman: onlineonly.christies.com/s/breaking-ground-private-collection-marian-goodman-part-i/lots/4069?cid=EM_SM_O_YT_Inc_SLP___24968_2021CNY0525____VID__
📅 Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale | 21 May
Meditate in a chapel of Richters at Christie's New York galleries.
When Marian Goodman began representing Gerhard Richter in 1985, she was not following consensus. Richter was admired in Germany, but in the United States his reputation had yet to take hold. Over the decades that followed, Goodman became a key figure in advancing his reception in the United States and abroad.
The paintings she lived with suggest how deeply that conviction ran.
'These works present new tensions between abstraction and representation, between personal and collective memory, through a deeply truthful representation of the intertwined legacies of Richter and Marian Goodman,’ Johanna Flaum, Christie’s Vice Chairman of 20th and 21st Century Art, says.
On view at our New York galleries through 18 May. Admission is free and open to all.
📍 Find us at 20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020
🔗 Explore more from Breaking Ground: The Private Collection of Marian Goodman: onlineonly.christies.com/s/breaking-ground-private-collection-marian-goodman-part-i/lots/4069?cid=EM_SM_O_YT_Inc_SLP___24968_2021CNY0525____VID__
📅 Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale | 21 May
