Fuji

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GERHARD RICHTER (B. 1932)
Fuji
signed 'Richter' (on the reverse); inscribed '839-52' (on a paper label affixed to the reverse)
oil on Alucobond
11 3⁄8 x 14 ½ in. (28.9 x 36.8 cm.)
Painted in 1996.

Provenance

Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich
Private collection
Anon. sale; Seoul Auction, 19 September 2017, lot 29
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Literature

Gerhard Richter 1998, exh. cat., London, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1998, pp. 97 and 107.
H. Butin, S. Gronert, and Dallas Museum of Art, eds., Gerhard Richter. Editions 1965-2004, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2004, pp. 36 and 238, no. 89.
H. Butin, Gerhard Richter. Unikate in Serie / Unique Pieces in Series, Cologne, 2008, pp. 136-137.
H. Butin, S. Gronert and T. Olbricht, eds., Gerhard Richter. Editions 1965-2013, Ostfildern, 2013, pp. 44-45 and 260, no. 89.
D. Elger, Gerhard Richter, Maler, Cologne, 2018, p. 297.
D. Elger and Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden, eds., Gerhard Richter Catalogue Raisonné, Volume 5, Nos. 806-899, 1994-2006, Berlin, 2019, pp. 209-211, no. 839⁄1-110 (illustrated).

Exhibited

Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Gerhard Richter: Fuji, March 1997.

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“I want to end up with a picture that I haven’t planned. This method of arbitrary choice, chance, inspiration and destruction may produce a specific type of picture, but it never produces a predetermined picture. Each picture has to evolve out of a painterly or visual logic: it has to emerge as if inevitably.” – Gerhard Richter

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