Berlin interior
Richard Hamilton British
Not on view
Starting with several collaged photographs of the interior of the Berlin apartment of the art dealer René Block, Hamilton transferred the images to a plate using photogravure. He then filled in the gaps with various etching processes to solidify the feeling of an interior space. The repetition of the long stick that leans against a corner—actually a 1968 sculpture by Blinky Palermo (1943–1977)—reminds the viewer of the fractured, faceted nature of the image. What looks like a photograph hanging at center (and repeated at right) is instead a painted portrait by Gerhard Richter (b. 1932), further confusing the distinction between the hand-drawn line and the photographed object.
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