{"id":1874699,"date":"2026-04-09T14:46:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1874699"},"modified":"2026-04-09T14:46:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:46:48","slug":"marian-goodman-collection-to-lead-christies-may-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1874699","title":{"rendered":"Marian Goodman Collection to Lead Christie\u2019s May Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tJust months after\u00a0her death in January at 97, Marian Goodman is returning to the market\u2014this time as a consignor.<\/p>\n

\n\tChristie\u2019s will offer works from the dealer\u2019s personal collection during its May marquee sales in New York, led by a group of paintings by Gerhard Richter, with one carrying an estimate as high as $50 million. The material, which once hung Goodman\u2019s Manhattan home, is expected to total around $65 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe centerpiece is a selection of seven Richter paintings from between 1982 and\u00a02009, presented at the start of the 21st Century Evening Sale on May 20. Among them is the 1982 painting\u00a0Kerze (Candle),<\/em>\u00a0featuring one the artist\u2019s best-known and most sought-after motifs; it carries a pre-sale estimate of between $35 million to $50 million.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe group doubles as a record of Goodman\u2019s relationship with Richter, whom she began representing in 1985, when his market in the United States remained underdeveloped. Over the following decades, she placed his work with major institutions while holding back key examples\u2014an approach that helped stabilize prices and shape his reception on both sides of the Atlantic. (Richter made headlines in 2022, when he departed the gallery to join David Zwirner.) <\/p>\n

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Kerze (Candle),<\/em>\u00a01982, is estimated at $35 million to $50 million at Christie\u2019s this May.<\/span>Courtesy Christie\u2019s Images LTD 2016<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n\tThat strategy now reads as clairvoyant. Richter\u2019s market has proved durable even as demand for postwar painting has softened at the top end. His 1986\u00a0Abstraktes Bild<\/em>\u00a0sold for $46.3 million\u00a0in 2015 at Sotheby\u2019s London, setting a record for a living European artist at the time. Large-scale abstractions from the 1990s also continue to draw high prices when the pop up at auction. Against that backdrop, Goodman\u2019s Richter holdings arrive with both rarity and narrative on its side.<\/p>\n

\n\tAdditional works from the collection will be dispersed across a day sale and an online auction, all sourced from Goodman\u2019s family and excluding artists currently represented by the gallery.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe timing works in Christie\u2019s favor. The market has shown a clear preference for tightly curated, single-owner collections, particularly those tied to figures with institutional weight. Goodman,\u00a0who opened her gallery in 1977\u00a0with a show of Marcel Broodthaers, spent decades building one of the most rigorous programs in contemporary art, backing artists such as Richter, Lothar Baumgarten, Giuseppe Penone, Julie Mehretu, and William Kentridge, the latter of which departed in 2024, with unusual consistency.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHer method was simple and, in the current market, unfashionable: commit early, stay long, and place carefully. Once she took on an artist, she often showed them for decades, resisting the churn that defined much of the last several decades of gallery boom.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat comes to auction in May are the remnants of that discipline. The Richter works, in particular, could be a lesson for dealers and collectors in what to sell, what to keep, and when conviction should outweigh easy money or cache.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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