Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich
Collection Norbert Königs, Aachen
Galerie Springer & Winckler, Berlin
Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in August 2000
Carré d'Art, Museé d'Art Contemporain de Nîmes, Gerhard Richter. 100 Bilder, June 15 – September 15, 1996, p. 59 (illustrated)
Aachen-Kornelimünster, Ehemalige Reichsabtei, Gerhard Richter. Werke aus Aachener Sammlungen, November 14, 1999 – January 9, 2000, no. 26, p. 94 (illustrated, p. 63)
New York, Barbara Mathes Gallery, Gerhard Richter: Paintings from the 1980s, February 1 – April 13, 2002
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Until Now: Collecting the New (1960-2010), April 16 – August 1, 2010
Gerhard Richter, exh. cat., Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, 1998, no. 801-3, p. 103 (illustrated, p. 86)
Gerhard Richter, exh. cat., K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, 2005, no. 801-3, p. 309 (illustrated, p. 268)
Dietmar Elger, ed., Gerhard Richter: Catalogue Raisonné 1988-1994, vol. 4 (Nos. 652-1 – 805-6), Ostfildern, 2015, no. 801-3, p. 577 (illustrated)
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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