Gerhard Richter

Anthony d'Offay, London
Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 2005

This work is in very good condition overall. The left edge of the sheet is unevenly cut. There are losses to the surface of the sheet along the top edge, which appears inherent to the artist's working method. There are scattered areas of craquelure and rippling in the surface of the paint which appears inherent to the medium and the artist's working method. All the paint appears to be stable. The sheet shows a gentle undulation throughout which is inherent to the medium. The sheet is hinged verso to the matte intermittently along the edges. Framed under Plexiglas.
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"I don't have a specific picture in my mind's eye. 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 pre-determined picture. Each picture has to evolve out of a painterly or visual logic: it has to emerge as if inevitably. And by not planning the outcome, I hope to achieve the same coherence and objectivity that a random slice of Nature always possesses." Gerhard Richter, 1990