Untitled (13.4.86)

Details

Gerhard Richter (B. 1932)
Untitled (13.4.86)
signed and dated '13.4.86 - Richter' (lower right)
oil on paper
20½ x 28¼in. (52.1 x 71.8cm.)
Executed in 1986

Provenance

Marian Goodman, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2000.

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Museum Overholland, Gerhard Richter werke op papier 1983-1986 notities 1982-1986, 1987 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).

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Lot Essay

‘I dont have a specific picture in my mind’s eye... I want to end up with a picture that I haven’t planned. This method of arbitrary choice, chance, inspiration and destruction may produce a specific type of picture, but it never produces a pre-determined picture. Each picture has to evolve out of a painterly or visual logic: it has to emerge as if inevitably. And by not planning the outcome, I hope to achieve the same coherence and objectivity that a random slice of Nature (or a Readymade) always possesses’ (G. Richter, ‘Interview with Sabine Schütz’, 1990, D. Elger, Gerhard Richter: A Life in Painting, Cologne 2002, p. 312).

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