Gerhard Richter, one of the greatest artists working today, has maintained a lifelong fascination with the relationship between painting and photography. His Overpainted Photographs first appeared in the late 1980’s and he has been making them ever since. Small in comparison to his other work, these family-album sized pictures start with a photograph taken by Richter of friends, family and travels, which is then fragmented and semi abstracted by the artist’s application of paint. A strange hybrid emerges from this process in which beautiful spontaneous gestural swaths of color and texture are laid and pulled across the detailed sheen of personal memory.

A comprehensive catalogue of Gerhard Richter’s Overpainted Photographs is scheduled to be published in 2016 in which this will be included.