Untitled (12.05.08)

Details

Gerhard Richter (b. 1932)
Untitled (12.05.08)
signed and dated '12. 5. 08 - Richter' (lower right on the board)
lacquer on printed paper
sheet: 11 3/8 x 8 ¼in. (29 x 21cm.)
board: 17 x 15 3/8in. (43 x 39cm.)
Executed in 2008

Provenance

Freunde Haus der Kunst, Munich.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2009.

Exhibited

Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Gerhard Richter - Abstrakte Bilder, 2008-2009. This exhibition later travelled to Munich, Haus der Kunst.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Descriptif du lot

‘ Abstract paintings are fictitious models because they visualize a reality, which we can neither see nor describe, but which we may nevertheless conclude exists. We attach negative names to this reality; the un-known, the un-graspable, the infinite, and for thousands of years we have depicted it in terms of substitute images like heaven and hell, gods and devils. With abstract painting we create a better means of approaching what can be neither seen nor understood.’
– Gerhard Richter

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