Gerhard Richter

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 GBP

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Description

Gerhard Richter
Abstraktes Bild
signed, dated 1990 and numbered 724-5 on the reverse
oil on canvas
122 by 102cm.
48 by 40 1/4 in.

Provenance

Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
Private Collection, Geneva
Henning Lohner, Berlin

Exhibited

London, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, Gerhard Richter, Mirrors, 1991, p. 31, no. 17, illustrated in colour

Literature

Angelika Thill, et al., Gerhard Richter Catalogue Raisonné, 1962-1993, Ostfildern-Ruit 1993, Vol. III, no. 724-5, illustrated in colour

Catalogue Note

"Accustomed to recognising real things in paintings, we refuse, justifiably, to consider colour alone (in all its variation) as what the painting reveals, and instead allow ourselves to see the unseeable... Paintings are all the better, the more beautiful, intelligent, crazy and extreme, the mroe clearly perceptible and the less decipherable metaphors they are for this incomprehensible reality. Art is the highest form of hope." The artist in: Exhibition Catalogue, Kassel, Documenta 7, 1982, p. 443