MV. 52

Details

Gerhard Richter (B. 1932)
MV. 52
titled 'MV. 52' (lower left); signed and dated 'Richter 2011' (lower right)
oil on colour photograph
4 x 5 7/8in. (10.1 x 15cm.)
Executed in 2011

Provenance

Tate Modern, London.
Private Collection, London.

Exhibited

Beirut, Beirut Art Center, Gerhard Richter, 2012 (illustrated in colour, p. 229).

Special Notice

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Lot Essay

‘I was able to see...[the photograph] ...as a picture which conveyed a different aspect to me, without all those conventional criteria which I formerly attached to art. There was no style, no composition, no judgement. It liberated me from personal experience. There was nothing but a pure picture’
(G. Richter, quoted in ‘Interview with Rolf Schön’, in XXXVI Biennale Internationale dell’Arte, exh. cat., Venice, 1972, p. 23).

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