GERHARD RICHTER | Strip (923-32)

Private Collection, Austria (acquired directly from the artist)
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exh. Cat., New York, Marian Goodman Gallery, Gerhard Richter. Strip Paintings, 2012, p. 51, illustrated in color

This work is in excellent condition overall. Upon close inspection there are no apparent condition issues. The work has not been examined outside of its frame. Framed under Plexiglas, in artist's frame.
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"Richter has always defined and catalogued the Strips as 'paintings.' His definition begs the question of what it means to call something with no paint a 'painting.' Maybe this nomination suggests a kind of resignation about the fate of painting in a digital world: the hand of the artist is now as redundant as any facility a painter might have had as a colorist." Mark Godfrey, "Strips, Swirls and Smoke: Richter since 2011," in Exh. Cat., London, Tate Modern (and traveling), Gerhard Richter: Panorama, 2016, pp. 281-282