Gerhard Richter

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Galleria Lucio Amelio, Naples
Collection Dann, Düsseldorf 
Sotheby's, London, 2 July 1992, lot 42 (consigned by the above) 
Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above)
Richard Gray Gallery, New York (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above in May 2002 by the present owner

Exh. Cat., Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Gerhard Richter: Atlas, 1989, p. 14 
Jean-Pierre Criqui, "Drei Impromptus über die Kunst Gerhard Richter's," Parkett, No. 35, 1993, p. 36, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Gerhard Richter: Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1993, vol. III, 1993, no. 404, n.p., illustrated in color 
Johannes Meinhardt, "Gerhard Richter: Impossible Painting," Kunstforum Inter­national, August - October 1995, no. 131, p. 243, illustrated in color
Dietmar Elger, Gerhard Richter, Maler, Cologne, 2002, p. 283 
Dietmar Elger, Gerhard Richter, Paris, 2008, pp. 182, 231
Dietmar Elger, Gerhard Richter: A Life in Painting, Chicago, 2009, p. 228
Johannes Stückelberger, “Der Himmel als Zufall – Gerhard Richter,” Wolkenbilder. Deutungen des Himmels in der Moderne, Munich, 2010, p. 317, illustrated
Dietmar Elger, ed., Gerhard Richter Landscapes, Ostfildern, 2011, no. 404, p. 79, illustrated in color
Dietmar Elger, Gerhard Richter: Catalogue Raisonné 1976-1987, vol. III, Ostfildern, 2013, no. 404, pp. 21, 76, illustrated in color 
Armin Zweite, Gerhard Richter: Leben und Werk, Das Denken ist beim Malen das Malen, Munich, 2019, pp. 230, 351, illustrated in color, p. 253
Gerhard Richter, London, ongoing, no. 404, illustrated in color (online) 

Paris, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, Gerhard Richter, February - March 1977, no. 86, p. 4, illustrated (titled Le Vésuve vu de Capri)
Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Berlin Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Kunsthalle Bern; and Vienna, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Gerhard Richter: Bilder 1962 – 1985, January - March 1986, no. 404, p. 199, illustrated in color 
New York, Luhring Augustine, Gerhard Richter: Selected Works 1963-1987, November 1995 - January 1996, pp. 56-57, illustrated in color
Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Gerhard Richter: The Art of the Impossible, Paintings 1964–1998, January - April 1999, p. 84, illustrated in color
Italy, Prato, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Gerhard Richter, October 1999 - January 2000, pp. 110-111, illustrated in color
New York, Richard Gray Gallery and Chicago, Richard Gray Gallery, Richard Gray Gallery: Forty Years, September 2002 - May 2003 
New York, Richard Gray Gallery, Capitalist Realism: Lueg, Polke, Richter, April - June 2011