Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter
Abstraktes Bild 842-7
On View Only
signed, numbered and dated ‘842-7 Richter 1997’ on the reverse
oil on aluminium panel
48 x 55 cm (18 7/8 x 21 5/8 in.)
Executed in 1997.
Provenance
Provenance
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
Isabel and David Breskin Collection, San Francisco
Schönewald Fine Arts, Xanten/Anthony Meier Fine Art, San Francisco
Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York
Private Collection
Christie's, London, 17 February 2011, lot 120
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Exhibited
Exhibited
London, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, Gerhard Richter 1998, 11 September - 22 October 1998, no. 842-7, pp. 14, 108 (illustrated, p. 97)
New York, Museum of Modern Art; The Art Institute of Chicago; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Washington, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Gerhard Richter-Forty Years of Painting, 14 February 2002 - 18 May 2003, p. 262 (illustrated)
Literature
Literature
'The Elusive Gerhard Richter', Art Journal Noëma, January- March 1999, p. 47 (illustrated)
Robert Storr, Gerhard Richter. Malerei, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2002, p. 262 (illustrated)
Armin Zweite, Gerhard Richter. Catalogue Raisonné 1993–2004, Düsseldorf, 2005, p. 279 (illustrated)
James A. W. Heffernan, Cultivating Picturacy: Visual Art and Verbal Interventions, Waco, 2006, pp. 304-5 (illustrated)
Dietmar Elger, Gerhard Richter, Paris, 2010, p. 291 (illustrated)
Dietmar Elger, Gerhard Richter. Catalogue Raisonné 1994-2006, vol. 5 (nos. 806 – 899-8), Berlin, 2019, no. 842-7, p. 235 (illustrated)
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Essay
Essay
‘Abstract is something everyday for me, as natural as walking or breathing.’ —Gerhard Richter
As one of the most influential and pioneering artists of the latter half of the twentieth-century, and a towering figure in the field of abstraction, Gerhard Richter is widely celebrated as one of the most important artists of his generation, and has been challenging the limits of painterly representation over the course of his decade-spanning career. Born in Dresden in 1932, the growing up in a rapidly shifting political and cultural landscape, Richter first enrolled at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in 1951 before later joining the Dusseldorf Academy in 1961 alongside Sigmar Polke. Experimenting with a wide variety of artistic styles and technical approaches, by the 1970s Richter's international reputation and career was gathering momentum and so began the development of a substantial number of colourful abstract works described simply as Abstraktes Bild. His innovative use of the squeegee in the 1980s transformed the course of his career, and by the 1990s, Richter was almost exclusively producing abstract paintings. Using his now famous squeegee technique, Richter scrapes paint across the canvas, the tool removing paint at the same time as it blends pigments together. Simultaneously revealing and concealing, these veils of colour become themselves the object of the work, there is no pre-figured image that is abstracted, rather it is the paint itself which is the subject in what Richter terms a ‘free abstract’.
Work by Richter is held in important public and private collections worldwide and he has been honoured with a number of significant awards. David Zwirner began representing the artist in 2023. His work has been presented in numerous solo shows and retrospective exhibitions at important institutions worldwide, and in April 2023, the Nationalgalerie in Berlin opened Gerhard Richter: 100 Works for Berlin. He lives and works in Cologne.
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