Untitled 4/1/91

1991

Not on view

In the 1980s Richter began squeezing pigment abstractly across canvases he had already painted in his photorealist manner, thereby suggesting that representation and abstraction are merely interchangeable codes. More recently Richter has made a number of small works that state this proposition with remarkable clarity: he squeezed paint directly onto original photographs--his own color snapshots of his art, his travels, and, in this case, his wife. These modest pictures neatly sum up the artist's problem: how to borrow photography's poignant time-bound veracity without deserting the high calling of the painter.

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Exhibition History

Title: Untitled 4/1/91
Artist: Gerhard Richter (German, born Dresden, 1932)
Date: 1991
Medium: Oil paint on chromogenic print
Dimensions: 10.2 x 14.9cm (4 x 5 7/8in.)
Mat: 14 × 17 in. (35.6 × 43.2 cm)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1996
Object Number: 1996.29
Rights and Reproduction: © Gerhard Richter
Curatorial Department: Photographs

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