Gerhard Richter (b. 1932)
Gerhard Richter (b. 1932)

Abstraktes Bild

Details
Gerhard Richter (b. 1932)
Abstraktes Bild
signed, numbered and dated '686-12 Richter, 1988' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
10 5/8 x 13¾ in. (26.9 x 34.9 cm.)
Painted in 1988.
Provenance
Galleria Pieroni, Rome
Literature
Gerhard Richter Werkübersicht/Catalogue raisonné 1962-1993, Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Vol. III, Bonn, 1993, no. 686-12 (illustrated in color).
Exhibited
Rome, Galleria Pieroni, Sol LeWitt--Gerhard Richter, December 1989-February 1990.

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Lot Essay

"No ideology. No religion, no belief, no meaning, no imagination, no invention, no creativity, no hope-but painting like Nature, painting as change, becoming, emerging, being-there, thusness; without an aim, and just as right, logical, perfect and incomprehensible (as Mozart, Schoenberg, Velazquez, Bach, Raphael, etc.) We can identify the causes have led to me and, in due course, to my paintings, whose immediate cause is my inner state, my happiness, my pain, in all possible forms and intensities, until that cause no longer exists."

(30 May 1985, G. Richter, Gerhard Richter: The Daily Practice of Painting, Writings and Interviews 1962-1993, Cambridge and London, 1995, p. 121.)


This lot will be included in the forthcoming fourth volume of the official catalogue raisonne of the artist, edited by the Gerhard Richter Archive, Dresden, to be published in Fall 2014.

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