Live Auction 5935First Open/LDN
Gerhard Richter (B. 1932)
Lot 29

Gerhard Richter (B. 1932)

MV. 52

Closed25 September 2014

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GBP 27,500

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Gerhard Richter (B. 1932)
MV. 52
titled 'MV. 52' (lower left); signed and dated 'Richter 2011' (lower right)
oil on colour photograph
4 x 5 7/8in. (10.1 x 15cm.)
Executed in 2011

Tate Modern, London.
Private Collection, London.

Specialist note

‘I was able to see...[the photograph] ...as a picture which conveyed a different aspect to me, without all those conventional criteria which I formerly attached to art. There was no style, no composition, no judgement. It liberated me from personal experience. There was nothing but a pure picture’
(G. Richter, quoted in ‘Interview with Rolf Schön’, in XXXVI Biennale Internationale dell’Arte, exh. cat., Venice, 1972, p. 23).