Gerhard Richter

Abstract Painting, 894-14, 2005,
Oil on Alu-dibond, 30X44 cm.
Signed, titled and dated on the reverse.

Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by Goodman Gallery 2009.

Literature and Exhibition :
Gerhard Richter: Abstract Paintings, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, Nov 2009 – Jan 2011, no. 8 (Illustrated).

Literature :
Gerhard Richter, Catalogue Raisonné, Abstracts 2005 onwards, no. 894-14 (Illustrated).

(…) the squeegee process becomes transparent as an operation at the extreme opposite end from what chance operations in the wake of the Surrealist legacies of automatism had still promised: starting the production of each canvas with strange rehearsals of various forms of gestural abstraction, as though moving through recitals of its legacies, in the final phases Richter seems literally to execute the painting with a massive device that rakes paint across an apparently carefully planned and painted surface. Criss – crossing the canvas horizontally and vertically with this rather crude tool, the artist accedes to a radical diminishment of tactile control and manual dexterity, suggesting that the erasure of painterly detail is as essential to the work’s production as the inscription of procedural traces. Thus an uncanny and deeply uncomforting dialectic between enunciation and erasure occurs at the very of the pictorial production process itself, opening up the insight that we might be witnessing a chasm of negation and destruction as much as the emergence of enchanting colouristic and structural vistas.
Benjamin Buchloh, The chance Ornament. Aphorisms on Gerhard Richtar Abstractions,
In: Artforum, February 2012, p.173.

Estimate: $200,000 – 150,000

Estimated price: $150,000 - $200,000

Sold for: 150000

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