Lot 4
  • 4

Gerhard Richter

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Gerhard Richter
  • Souvenir, 36/64
  • signed and numbered 36/64 on a label affixed to the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 8 1/4 by 8 1/4 in. 21 by 21 cm.
  • Executed in 1995, this work is number 36 of 64 unique parts from the painting CR 813-0, which was cut into individual canvases by the artist.

Provenance

Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 1998

Literature

Hubertus Butin and Stefan Gronert, Eds., Gerhard Richter: Editions 1965-2004, Ostfildern 2004, cat. no. 84, p. 232, another example illustrated in color
Hubertus Butin, Stefan Gronert, and Thomas Olbricht, Eds., Gerhard Richter: Editions 1965-2013, Ostfildern 2014, cat. no. 84, p. 255, another example illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in good condition overall. The cut canvas is hinged on the reverse to the backing board. The edges of the canvas are lifting slightly on all sides. There is extensive hairline craquelure throughout. The craquelure appears to be stable. Under close inspection, there are some scattered pinpoint pigment losses along the perimeter. Framed under Plexiglas.
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Catalogue Note

"I neither know in advance what it is meant to look like nor, during the painting process, what I am aiming at and what to do about getting there. Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings." Gerhard Richter in Jürgen Harten & Dietmar Elger, Gerhard Richter: Paintings 1962-1985, Düsseldorf 1986, p. 89