Souvenir

Details

Gerhard Richter (B. 1932)
Souvenir
signed and numbered 'Richter 55/64' (on a label affixed to the reverse)
oil on canvas mounted on card
8¼ x 8¼in. (21 x 21cm.)
Executed in 1995, this work is number fifty-five of sixty-four unique versions

Provenance

Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London.
Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature

H. Butin and S. Gronert (eds.), Gerhard Richter: Editions 1965-2004, Catalogue Raisonné, Ostfildern-Ruit 2004, no. 75 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 232).
H. Butin, S. Gronert & T. Olbricht (ed.), Gerhard Richter: Editions 1965-2013, Cologne 2014, no. 138 (another from the series illustrated in colour, p. 255).

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.

Descriptif du lot

'My small abstract paintings... 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' (G. Richter quoted in H. Obrist, ed., Gerhard Richter: The Daily Practice of Painting Writings and Interviews 1962-1993, London 1995, pp. 215-216).

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