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Gerhard Richter (b. 1932)
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signed and numbered 'Richter 6/40' (on a label affixed to the reverse)
digital inkjet print between two panes of glass
image: 20 3/8 x 28 3/8in. (51.8 x 72cm.)
overall: 26 x 35 3/8in. (66 x 90cm.)
Executed in 2009, this work is number six from an edition of forty plus four artist's proofs

Provenance

John Hage, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature

Gerhard Richter: Abstract Paintings 2009, exh. cat., New York, Marian Goodman Gallery, 2009-2010 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 1).
H. Butin, S. Gronert and T. Olbricht (eds.), Gerhard Richter: Editions 1965-2013, Cologne 2014, no. 139 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 311).

Exhibited

Bonn, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Der Westen leuchtet (The Luminous West), 2010 (another from the edition exhibited).
Beverly, Montserrat College of Art Gallery, For the Record: Searching for Objectivity in Global Conflict, 2011 (another from the edition exhibited).
Moscow, 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Rewriting Worlds, 2011 (another from the edition exhibited).
Gütersloh, Kunstverein Kreis Gütersloh, Ars Apocalipsis: Kunst und Kollaps (Ars Apocalipsis: Art and Collapse), 2011 (another from the edition exhibited).
Berlin, me Collectors Room, Gerhard Richter - Editions 1965-2011, 2012 (another from the edition exhibited).
Beirut, Beirut Art Center, Gerhard Richter, 2012 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 124).
Bremen, Weserburg: Museum für moderne Kunst, Kabinettstücke (Cabinet Pieces), 2013 (another from the edition exhibited).
San Francisco, Fraenkel Gallery, The Unphotographable, 2013 (another from the edition exhibited).
Turin, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Gerhard Richter: Edizioni 1965-2012 dalla Collezione Olbricht (Gerhard Richter: Editions from the Olbricht Collection 1965-2012), 2013 (another from the edition exhibited).
Munich, Kunstbau München, Gerhard Richter: Atlas - Mikromega, 2013-2014 (another from the edition exhibited).
Dusseldorf, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Gerhard Richter - Die Kunst im Plural (Gerhard Richter - Art in the Plural), 2014 (another from the edition exhibited).
Munster, Galerie Mike Karstens, Gerhard Richter: Projekte und ausgesuchte Editionen, 2014 (another from the edition exhibited).

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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‘The little picture of the two towers was very colourful to start with, with the garish explosion beneath the wonderful blue sky and the flying rubble. That couldn’t work; only when I destroyed it, so to speak, scratched it off, was it fit to be seen’ (G. Richter, quoted in ‘Interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist, November 2006’, in D. Elger and H. Ulrich Obrist (eds.), Gerhard Richter, TEXT: Writings, Interviews and Letters: 1961-2007, London 2009, p. 527).

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