Abstraktes Bild

Details

Gerhard Richter (b. 1932)
Abstraktes Bild
signed, numbered and dated '848-6 Richter 1998' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
20 1/8 x 22in. (51 x 56cm.)
Painted in 1998

Provenance

Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London.
Galeria Mário Sequeira, Braga.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2000.

Literature

Gerhard Richter, exh. cat., London, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1998, no. 848-6 (illustrated in colour, unpaged.)
H. Friedel and A. Zweite (eds.), Gerhard Richter Catalogue Raisonné 1993-2004, Dusseldorf 2005, no. 848-6 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).

Exhibited

London, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, New Paintings, 1998.

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Lot Essay

"We only find paintings interesting because we always search for something that looks familiar to us. I see something and in my head I compare it and try to find out what it relates to. And usually we do find those similarities and name them: table, blanket, and so on. When we don't find anything, we are frustrated and that keeps us excited and interested until we have to turn away because we are bored. That's how abstract painting works."
(Richter quoted in "Interview with Gerhard Richter," exh. cat., Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting, R. Storr (ed.), New York, 2002, p. 304).

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