Abstraktes Bild

Details

Gerhard Richter (b. 1932)
Abstraktes Bild
signed, numbered and dated ‘716-7 Richter IV/90’ (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
9 ¾ x 14 5/8in. (25 x 37cm.)
Painted in 1990

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner and thence by descent to the present owner.

Literature

G. Richter and J. Storsve, “Gerhard Richter, la peinture à venir”, in Art Press, September 1991 (illustrated in colour, p. 20).
Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (ed.), Gerhard Richter, Werkübersicht/Catalogue Raisonné: 1962-1993, vol. III, Ostfildern-Ruit 1993, no. 716-7 (illustrated in colour, p. 124).

Exhibited

Herford, MARTa Herford, MARTa schweigt. Die Kunst der Stille von Duchamp bis heute, 2007 (illustrated in colour, p. 178).
Herford, MARTa Herford, Ich weiß gar nicht, was Kunst ist. Einblicke in eine private Sammlung, 2010 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).

Special Notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

‘Abstract paintings are like fictitious models because they visualise a reality which we can neither see nor describe but which we nevertheless conclude exists. We attract negative names to this reality: the un-known, the un-graspable, the infinite, and for thousands of years we have depicted it in terms of absolute images like heaven and hell... Paintings are better the more intelligent, the more beautiful, the more mad, the more extreme, the more evident, the more incomprehensible their way of showing this incomprehensible reality’
(G. Richter, ‘Statement’, Documenta 7, Kassel, 1982, unpaged).

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