Bodileum

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DANIEL RICHTER (B. 1962)
Bodileum
signed with the artist’s initials, titled and dated ‘DR 96 “Bodileum”’ (on the reverse)
oil, gold and fluorescent paint on canvas
67 x 51 ¼in. (170.2 x 130.2cm.)
Painted in 1996

Provenance

Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin.
Private Collection, USA.
Anon. sale, Christie’s New York, 9 November 2005, lot 422.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Special Notice

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Lot Essay

'The idea of the promise of absolute freedom that relates to abstract or non-figurative painting interested me. Free forms, putting too much into a painting, trying to overwhelm people with elements of graffiti and quotes of already existing painters, doing intelligent things that appear to be stupid – for me it was liberating. I thought that everybody was interested in painting, but in the nineties nobody was.' DANIEL RICHTER

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