GERHARD RICHTER

Kanarische Landschaften I [Canary Landscapes I (Butin 39)]
Born in Dresden, Germany in 1932. Richter is considered one of the greatest contemporary painters. He has a wide diversity of expressions such as “Photo Painting”, “Abstract”, “Color Chart”, “Mirror”, “Grey Painting”, “Strips”, “Atlas”, and “Overpainted Photographs”, all have reached a high dimension. With respect, Richter’s works sometimes are referred as “styleless style”. From figurative images to abstract expressions, from chromatic to achromatic colors, he achieves the maximum variety of painting just by himself. Richter’s whole life is overarched by the enormous theme of what paintings can express. He is one of the most important contemporary artists, having held solo exhibitions at major museums including the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Tate Modern in London, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
<a href="https://ueshima-collection.com/en/artist-list/1" style="color:inherit">GERHARD RICHTER</a>:Abstrakte Skizze (Abstract Sketch)
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GERHARD RICHTER
Abstrakte Skizze (Abstract Sketch)
Year: 1991
Medium: oil on canvas, signed, dated VII. 91 and numbered 749-7 on the reverse
Dimensions: 30 x 35 cm (11 3/4 × 13 3/4 in.)
Acquired from Sotheby’s, 2022
One of Richter’s most significant series of work “Abstrakte (Abstract)”. Richter categorized a group of related works with the same raisonné number (controlled numbers for all works). This work is the 7th in a series of 12 works with raisonné number 749. Unlike other “Abstrakte” series, this work and 749 series are classified as highly related to “Photo Painting”, which is also his most important series. The reason is that number 1 to 4 from 749 series are individually titled “Bühler Höhe” and are categorized as “Photo Painting”. This work depicts a grove of trees on a misty hill. Therefore, it must be recognized as related to the same series - although extremely abstract, the composition of the greenery of the hill and the grove of trees barely remains on the painting. The subsequent five works are even more abstract in which original forms of motifs are hardly retained. This painting is from an old collection of Richter’s former partner, sculptor Isa Genzken, however, disappeared for a while after Genzken gave it away. In 2015 when Catalogue Raisonné (Complete works) was created, this painting along with several works, were mistakenly listed as destroyed (Verified).

Past Exhibitions

ARTIST LIST
<a href="https://ueshima-collection.com/en/artist-list/1" style="color:inherit">GERHARD RICHTER</a>:Kanarische Landschaften I [Canary Landscapes I (Butin 39)]
<a href="https://ueshima-collection.com/en/artist-list/1" style="color:inherit">GERHARD RICHTER</a>:Kanarische Landschaften I [Canary Landscapes I (Butin 39)]
<a href="https://ueshima-collection.com/en/artist-list/1" style="color:inherit">GERHARD RICHTER</a>:Kanarische Landschaften I [Canary Landscapes I (Butin 39)]
<a href="https://ueshima-collection.com/en/artist-list/1" style="color:inherit">GERHARD RICHTER</a>:Kanarische Landschaften I [Canary Landscapes I (Butin 39)]
<a href="https://ueshima-collection.com/en/artist-list/1" style="color:inherit">GERHARD RICHTER</a>:Kanarische Landschaften I [Canary Landscapes I (Butin 39)]
<a href="https://ueshima-collection.com/en/artist-list/1" style="color:inherit">GERHARD RICHTER</a>:Kanarische Landschaften I [Canary Landscapes I (Butin 39)]
<a href="https://ueshima-collection.com/en/artist-list/1" style="color:inherit">GERHARD RICHTER</a>:Kanarische Landschaften I [Canary Landscapes I (Butin 39)]
<a href="https://ueshima-collection.com/en/artist-list/1" style="color:inherit">GERHARD RICHTER</a>:Kanarische Landschaften I [Canary Landscapes I (Butin 39)]
<a href="https://ueshima-collection.com/en/artist-list/1" style="color:inherit">GERHARD RICHTER</a>:Kanarische Landschaften I [Canary Landscapes I (Butin 39)]
<a href="https://ueshima-collection.com/en/artist-list/1" style="color:inherit">GERHARD RICHTER</a>:Kanarische Landschaften I [Canary Landscapes I (Butin 39)]
<a href="https://ueshima-collection.com/en/artist-list/1" style="color:inherit">GERHARD RICHTER</a>:Kanarische Landschaften I [Canary Landscapes I (Butin 39)]
<a href="https://ueshima-collection.com/en/artist-list/1" style="color:inherit">GERHARD RICHTER</a>:Kanarische Landschaften I [Canary Landscapes I (Butin 39)]
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<a href="https://ueshima-collection.com/en/artist-list/1" style="color:inherit">GERHARD RICHTER</a>:Kanarische Landschaften I [Canary Landscapes I (Butin 39)]
<a href="https://ueshima-collection.com/en/artist-list/1" style="color:inherit">GERHARD RICHTER</a>:Kanarische Landschaften I [Canary Landscapes I (Butin 39)]
<a href="https://ueshima-collection.com/en/artist-list/1" style="color:inherit">GERHARD RICHTER</a>:Kanarische Landschaften I [Canary Landscapes I (Butin 39)]
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<a href="https://ueshima-collection.com/en/artist-list/1" style="color:inherit">GERHARD RICHTER</a>:Kanarische Landschaften I [Canary Landscapes I (Butin 39)]
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<a href="https://ueshima-collection.com/en/artist-list/1" style="color:inherit">GERHARD RICHTER</a>:Kanarische Landschaften I [Canary Landscapes I (Butin 39)]
<a href="https://ueshima-collection.com/en/artist-list/1" style="color:inherit">GERHARD RICHTER</a>:Kanarische Landschaften I [Canary Landscapes I (Butin 39)]
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<a href="https://ueshima-collection.com/en/artist-list/1" style="color:inherit">GERHARD RICHTER</a>:Kanarische Landschaften I [Canary Landscapes I (Butin 39)]
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GERHARD RICHTER
Kanarische Landschaften I [Canary Landscapes I (Butin 39)]
Year: 1971
Medium: Heliogravure (the complete set of 6 works with original case)
Dimensions: image: 11.8 × 22.7 cm (4 5/8 × 8 7/8 in.) - 15.3 x 24.4 cm (6 x 9 5/8 in.) sheet: 39.5 x 50.1 cm (15 1/2 x 19 3/4 in.) each
Edition: No.29 of 100
Acquired from SBI Art Auction, 2022
Considered by many to be the greatest living artist, Richter is an unquestionable megastar of contemporary art not only in Germany, but in the whole world. Richter works with various materials in his two-dimensional works including photographs, paintings, glass, and mirrors. This work is one of several series based on photographs taken on the Canary Islands in 1969, with a beautiful continuity of a set of six pictures. Richter’s paintings can be broadly divided into “Abstract” and “Photo Painting”. He has produced a large number of artworks of landscape depictions classified as “Landscapes” in the “Photo Painting” series since the beginning, and there are also several pieces with the Canary Islands theme like this piece. The reason why Richter’s photo-like paintings look so much like photographs can be clearly understood when comparing his paintings to photographs. This is because in “Photo Painting” he shows how “photo-like” of a photograph can be created with painting techniques. This work is a very important work for understanding Richter’s concept, which can be said to be the foundation of his work.
ARTIST LIST
<a href="https://ueshima-collection.com/en/artist-list/1" style="color:inherit">GERHARD RICHTER</a>:4. 3. 89
<a href="https://ueshima-collection.com/en/artist-list/1" style="color:inherit">GERHARD RICHTER</a>:4. 3. 89
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GERHARD RICHTER
4. 3. 89
Year: 1989
Medium: oil on color photograph
Dimensions: 10.2 x 15.2 cm (4 × 6 in.)
Acquired from PHILLIPS, 2022
This is one of a series named “Overpainted Photographs”, in which Richter took snapshots of his family, house, or cityscapes he visited, then oil-painted on the surface of photographs. Being part of the series, this work is categorized as “Rural Landscapes”. The photograph setting probably suggests a mountain landscape. One can also see snow on the rocky terrain; thus, one can imagine the harsh environment. What would be the artist’s intention to cover the bottom part of the work with dark paint? This work clearly expresses the interest unique to an artist who wanders between photography and painting. It is titled as the creation date, and the numbers of works imply that this is part of Richter’s daily production activity. Richter signed and titled on the upper-left corner of the work.
ARTIST LIST
<a href="https://ueshima-collection.com/en/artist-list/1" style="color:inherit">GERHARD RICHTER</a>:21. Feb. 01
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GERHARD RICHTER
21. Feb. 01
Year: 2001
Medium: oil on color photograph
Dimensions: 14.6 x 10.2 cm (4 × 6 in.)
Acquired from PHILLIPS, 2022
As, Newspapers are spread out in the room when one is peeking through the unpainted parts of this work. This is from the “Overpainted Photographs” series and is considered to be a good example of what Richter’s concept of abstract is all about. The word “Abstract” conveys the concept of “drawing off from” a symbolic representation and generalizing it. Although abstract paintings are commonly misinterpreted as not expressing particularly anything, instead of depicting specific forms in their original state, tangible and intangible properties (concepts) are preserved. In this work, seemingly random application of paint on top of a photograph with clearly visible objects, and how Richter abstractly intervenes in the concrete world with his attempted results, all convey Richter’s concept of abstraction in a direct manner.
ARTIST LIST
<a href="https://ueshima-collection.com/en/artist-list/1" style="color:inherit">GERHARD RICHTER</a>:Cage 1 (P19-1)
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GERHARD RICHTER
Cage 1 (P19-1)
Year: 2006/2020
Medium: Giclée print in colors, flush-mounted to aluminum with metal strainer on the reverse
Dimensions: 100 × 100 cm (39 3/8 × 39 3/8 in.)
Edition: #144 of 200
Acquired from PHILLIPS, 2022
The original of this work was produced in 2006, a large-scale painting measuring 290x290 cm and was exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2007. It is currently on a long-term loan at the TATE Modern in London. Most of Richter’s works are abstract pieces, often simply titled “Abstraktes Bild” (abstract painting). However, there are sometimes series created under specific titles. This work is one of the series of six works entitled “Cage”. The vivid colors stretched with a squeegee, which is often seen on Richter’s abstract works, is eye-catching. The title “Cage” does not mean a hutch or a birdcage, but comes from the name of John Cage. He is an American musician known for the monumental pieces of his experimental music such as “4’33” and “Chance Operations”. It is said that Richter worked on this piece while constantly playing Cage’s music in his studio.
ARTIST LIST
<a href="https://ueshima-collection.com/en/artist-list/1" style="color:inherit">GERHARD RICHTER</a>:Abstraktes Bild (P1)
<a href="https://ueshima-collection.com/en/artist-list/1" style="color:inherit">GERHARD RICHTER</a>:Abstraktes Bild (P1)
<a href="https://ueshima-collection.com/en/artist-list/1" style="color:inherit">GERHARD RICHTER</a>:Abstraktes Bild (P1)
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GERHARD RICHTER
Abstraktes Bild (P1)
Year: 1990/2014
Medium: chromogenic print, flush-mounted to aluminum with metal strainer on the reverse
Dimensions: 92 × 126 cm (36 1/4 × 49 5/8 in.)
Edition: #471 of 500
Acquired from PHILLIPS, 2022
The original of this work was produced in 1990. It was used many times as a basis for Editions and Jacquard works, providing numerous variations. This work is particularly also the first piece of print production with HENI in 2014 (P1 means the first piece of Print), and was created in the original dimensions. This is the only “Abstraktes Bild” listed on Richter’s official website under the PRINT category, and is considered as one of the first masterpieces of the “Abstraktes Bild” that began production in 1990.
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GERHARD RICHTER
untitled (3.11.89)
Year: 1989
Medium: gelatin silver print, unique
Dimensions: 67.9 x 97.8 cm (26 3/4 x 38 1/2 in.)
Acquired from Phillips, 2022
A photographic work as a unique piece by Richter is exceptionally rare. This is because Richter is the most sensitive artist who captures the relationship between photography and painting. There are several reproductions of his works, and one famous photo painting, “Ema (Nude on a Staircase)” (produced in 1966), was also presented as a work captured in a photograph. This work is likely one of the reproduction works of his abstract painting series. Richter's photo paintings take up elements like blue and defocus, which make the most “photograph-like” expression in a photo, and faithfully reproduce them in paintings. In other words, the unrealistic blurry expression that is likely seen as a failure in photography is what people perceive as “photographic”. It is widely recognized as a phenomenon that frequently occurs in photography. Richter reimports the new image of this “photographic-ness” into pictorial expression. The oscillation of this imagery, returning it to photography, is arguably the inevitability of Richter's photographic works.
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