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GERHARD RICHTER (B. 1932)
Grau (Grey)
signed, inscribed and dated '247⁄9 Richter, 1970' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
33 7⁄8 x 35 ¾in. (86.1 x 91cm.)
Painted in 1970
Provenance
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo.
Private Collection, Hiroshima.
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York.
Private Collection, Japan.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Venice, Biennale di Venezia, XXXVI Biennale Internazionale dell'Arte Gerhard Richter 1972, p. 42.
J. Harten and D. Elger (eds.), Gerhard Richter Bilder Paintings 1962-1985, exh. cat., Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1986, p. 376, no. 247⁄9 (illustrated, p. 110).
Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (ed.), Gerhard Richter Werkübersicht/Catalogue Raisonné: 1962-1993, vol. III, Ostfildern-Ruit 1993, p. 160, no. 247-9 (illustrated, p. 36).
J. Stückelberger (ed.), Wolkenbilder, Deutungen des Himmels in der Moderne, Munich 2010, pp. 343-345 (illustrated, p. 346).
D. Elger (ed.), Gerhard Richter Catalogue Raisonné, Nos. 198-338, 1968-1976, Vol. II, Berlin 2017, no. 247-9 (illustrated in colour, p. 190).
Exhibited
Mönchengladbach, Städtisches Museum Mönchengladbach, Gerhard Richter Graue Bilder, 1974.
Brunswick, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Gerhard Richter Graue Bilder, 1975.
Isernhagen, Galerie Isernhagen, Gerhard Richter 1979.
Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Gerhard Richter Paintings, 1988-1989, p. 147, pl. 44 (illustrated, p. 97). This exhibition later traveled to Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Washington, D.C., Hishhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Tokyo, Wako Works of Art, Gerhard Richter 1996 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).
Hiroshima, Daiwa Radiator Factory, Viewing Room vol. 01, 2006.