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Gerhard Richter
Description
- Gerhard Richter
- Abstraktes Bild
- signed, dated 1992 and numbered 767-1 on the reverse
- oil on canvas
- 62 by 62cm.; 24 3/8 by 24 3/8 in.
Provenance
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Acquired directly from the👍 above by the presenꦑt owner
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Condition
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Catalogue Note
'22 September 1992. Scraping off. For about a year now, I have been unable to do anything in my painting but scrape off, pile on and then remove again. In this process I don't actually reveal what was beneath. If I wanted to do that, I would have to think what to reveal (figurative pictures or signs or patterns); that is, pictures that might as well be produced direct. It would also be something of a symbolic trick: bringing to light the lost, buried pictures, or something to that effect. The process of applying, destroying and layering only serves to achieve a more varied technical repertoire in picture-making.' Gerhard Richter cited in: Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Ed., Gerhard Richter, The Daily Practice of Painting: Writings 1962-1993, Cambridge MA. 1995, p. 245