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GERHARD RICHTER (b. 1932) UNTITLED (467-1) signed, titled and dated "467-1 Gerhard Richter 1981" ...

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GERHARD RICHTER (b. 1932) UNTITLED (467-1) signed, titled and dated 467-1 Gerhard Richter 1981 ...
GERHARD RICHTER
(b. 1932)
UNTITLED (467-1)
signed, titled and dated
"467-1 Gerhard Richter 1981"
on the reverse
oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 31 1/2 in. (65 x 80 cm)
painted in 1981 <p>PROVENANCE
Private collection, GERMANY <p>EXHIBITED
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, GERHARD RICHTER: ABSTRAKTE BILDER, 1982,
p. 448 (illustrated)
Kunstverein Mannheim, GERHARD RICHTER: ABSTRAKTE BILDER, 1982, p. 48 (illustrated)
DÜSSELDORF, Städtische Kunsthalle; Nationalgalerie Berlin, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz; Kunsthalle Bern and VIENNA, Museum moderner Kunst/Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, GERHARD RICHTER PAINTINGS 1962-1985, January 18-September 21, 1986, p. 238,
pl. 46 7/1 (illustrated) <p>LITERATURE
J. Harten, "Zum Vergleich," BASELITZ-RICHTER, DÜSSELDORF, 1981, n.p. (illustrated)
B. H. D. Buchloh, P. Gidal, B. Pelzer and A. Thill, GERHARD RICHTER: CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ, BONN, 1993, Vol.III, no. 467-1 (illustrated)
"I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential. The hyperrealists didn't do that; they painted everything, every detail. That's why they were such a surprise. But for me it was obvious that I had to wipe out the details. I was happy to have a method that was rather mechanical. In that regard I owe something to Warhol. He legitimized the mechanical. He showed me how it is done. It is a normal state of working, to eliminate things. But Warhol showed me this modern way of letting details disappear, or at least he validated its possibilities. He did it with silkscreening and photography, and I did it through mechanical wiping. It was a very liberating act."
Gerhard Richter quoted in an interview with Robert Storr, GERHARD RICHTER: FORTY YEARS OF PAINTING, New York, 2002, p. 295
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