Water-tempera and pencil on wove paper. Lower right signed and dated. 16.5 x 24 cm. , the full sheet.
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• The table is also the motif in the first painting mentioned in the catalogue raisonné.
• One of the few figurative watercolors in this small group.
• Even though Richter increasingly turned to abstraction in the 1980s, he also made still lifes, landscapes and portraits at that time.
The work is mentioned in the online catalogue raisonné.
LITERATURE: Dieter Schwarz, Gerhard Richter. Aquarelle = Watercolors, 1999, pp. 14, 26 and 143. Klaus Albrecht Schröder (ed.), Gerhard Richter: Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, 2009, pp. 13, 31.
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GERHARD RICHTER 
