Live Auction 5935First Open/LDN
Gerhard Richter (B. 1932)
Lot 30

Gerhard Richter (B. 1932)

Souvenir

Closed25 September 2014

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GBP 50,000

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Gerhard Richter (B. 1932)
Souvenir
signed and numbered 'Richter 55/64' (on a label affixed to the reverse)
oil on canvas mounted on card
8¼ x 8¼in. (21 x 21cm.)
Executed in 1995, this work is number fifty-five of sixty-four unique versions

Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London.
Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

'My small abstract paintings... allowed me to do what I had never let myself do; put something down at random. And then, of course, I realized that it never can be random. It was all a way of opening a door for me' (G. Richter quoted in H. Obrist, ed., Gerhard Richter: The Daily Practice of Painting Writings and Interviews 1962-1993, London 1995, pp. 215-216).