Abstraktes Bild (432/2)

Details

Gerhard Richter (b. 1932)
Abstraktes Bild (432/2)
signed, numbered and dated 'Richter, 78, 432/2' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
13 x 10 5/8in. (33 x 27cm.)
Painted in 1978

Provenance

Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach.
Private Collection.

Literature

J. Harten, Gerhard Richter. Bilder Paintings 1962-1985, Cologne 1986 (illustrated, p. 211).
Gerhard Richter. Werkübersicht/Catalogue raisonné 1962-1993, Ostfildern-Ruit 1993, no. 432-2 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).

Exhibited

Eindhoven, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Gerhard Richter. Abstract Paintings, October-November 1978. This exhibition later travelled to London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, March-April 1979.
Bielefeld, Kunsthalle, Gerhard Richter. Abstrakte Bilder 1976-1981, January-February 1982 (illustrated in colour, p. 19). This exhibition later travelled to Mannheim, Kunstverein.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

"It began in 1976, with small abstract paintings that allowed me to do what I had never let myself do: put something down at random. And then, of course, I realized that it never can be random. It was all a way of opening a door for me" (Richter, quoted in "Interview with Sabine Schütz", in The Daily Practice of Painting, London 1995, p. 215).

Abstraktes Bild (432/2)

Lot Essay

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