RICHTER, GERHARD
1932 Dresden
Title: Grau.
Date: 1973.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 50 x 70,4cm.
Notation: Signed and dated verso centre: Richter 73. Additionally equipped with the work number on the verso at the top of the stretcher: 342/6.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.
The work is listed on the artist's official website under cat. rais no. no. 342-6. (www.gerhard-richter.com)
Provenance:
- Galerie Luc van Middelem, Knokke
- Private collection Belgium
- Private collection Germany
Literature:
- Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (ed.): Gerhard Richter, Werkübersicht/Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1993, vol.III, Ostfildern-Ruit 1993, cat. rais. no. 342-6, p.165, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Gerhard Richter, Pictures 1962-1985, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Cologne 1986, p.383
- Gerhard Richter has been at the top of the art rankings in the "Art Compass" for 20 years
- The colour grey plays an important role in his oeuvre
- Beautiful, early example of Richter's intensive preoccupation with the colour grey, which led him to abstraction.
Gerhard Richter 
