Westfälischer Kunstverein, Munster.
Private Collection, Germany
Ketterer Kunst, Munich, 5 December 2006, lot 346
Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)
Est-Ouest, Hong Kong, 28 May 2011, lot 1086
Private Collection
Private Collection (acquired from the above)
Christie's, South Kensington, 14 April 2016, lot 29
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
London, Jerome Zodo Gallery, Painting as Neo Avant-Garde, 11 July 2016 – 30 September 2016
Gerhard Richter: Bilder 1962-1985., exh. cat., Städtische Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, 1986, nos. 325/1-120, p. 380 (illustrated, p. 148)
Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, ed., Gerhard Richter. Werkübersicht / Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1993, vol. III, Bonn, 1993, no. 325/1-120, n.p. (illustrated)
Hubertus Butin, Gerhard Richter. Editionen 1965-1993, Kunsthalle Bremen, 1993, no. 38, p. 119 (another example from the series illustrated)
Hubertus Butin and Stefan Gronert, eds., Gerhard Richter. Editionen 1965-2004. Catalogue Raisonné, Ostfildern, 2004, no. 46, p. 186 (another example from the series illustrated)
Hubertus Butin, Gerhard Richter und die Reflexion der Bilder, in Hubertus Butin and Stefan Gronert, eds., Gerhard Richter. Editionen 1965-2004. Catalogue Raisonné, Ostfildern, 2004, p. 34 (another example from the series illustrated, p. 186)
Hubertus Butin, Stefan Gronert, and Thomas Olbricht, eds., Gerhard Richter. Editionen 1965-2013, Ostfildern, 2014, no. 46, p. 210 (another example from the series illustrated)
Dietmar Elger, Gerhard Richter. Catalogue Raisonné 1968-1976, vol. 2 (nos. 198 – 388), Berlin, 2017, no. 325/1-120, p. 454 (illustrated, p. 455)
German • 1932
Powerhouse painter Gerhard Richter has been a key player in defining the formal and ideological agenda for painting in contemporary art. His instantaneously recognizable canvases literally and figuratively blur the lines of representation and abstraction. Uninterested in classification, Richter skates between unorthodoxy and realism, much to the delight of institutions and the market alike.
Richter's color palette of potent hues is all substance and "no style," in the artist's own words. From career start in 1962, Richter developed both his photorealist and abstracted languages side-by-side, producing voraciously and evolving his artistic style in short intervals. Richter's illusory paintings find themselves on the walls of the world's most revered museums—for instance, London’s Tate Modern displays the Cage (1) – (6), 2006 paintings that were named after experimental composer John Cage and that inspired the balletic 'Rambert Event' hosted by Phillips Berkeley Square in 2016.
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