Private Collection
Van Ham Kunstauktionen, Cologne, 2 December 2010, lot 443
Private Collection, Europe
Phillips, London, 11 December 2013, lot 17
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Emanuele Garbin, Il bordo del mondo: La forma sguardo nella pittura di Gerhard Richter, Venice, 2011, pp. 155-157
Hubertus Butin, Stefan Gronert and Thomas Olbricht eds., Gerhard Richter - Editions 1965-2013, Ostfildern, 2014, no. 125, p. 276
Gerhard Richter: Die Editionen, Essen, 2017, p. 34
Hubertus Butin, Gerhard Richter. Unikate in Serie / Unique Pieces in Series, Cologne, 2017, pp. 148, 149, 152, 153
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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