LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Jacquard-woven tapestry, Trevira CS, cotton, wool, silk and acrylic

Measurements:

107.48 in. (273.00 cm.) (height) by 148.82 in. (378.00 cm.) (width)

Edition:

7 of 8 + 2 AP

Markings:

signed and numbered '7/8 Richter' (on a label on the reverse)

Exhibited:

London, Gagosian Gallery, Gerhard Richter: Tapestries, 2013, p. 43 (another from the edition exhibited and illustrated in colour, pp. 19 & 45; installation view illustrated in colour, p. 3; detail illustrated in colour, pp. 46-47). New York, The FLAG Art Foundation, FLAG’s 5th Anniversary Group Exhibition, 2013 (another from the edition exhibited). Munich, Kunstbau, Gerhard Richter: Atlas, 2013–2014 (another from the edition exhibited). Dusseldorf, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Gerhard Richter – Die Kunst im Plural, 2014 (another from the edition exhibited). Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Art & Textiles: Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present, 2013–2014, p. 371 (another from the edition exhibited and illustrated in colour, p. 275). This exhibition later travelled to Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie. New York, The FLAG Art Foundation, Etel Adnan / Gerhard Richter, 2017 (another from the edition exhibited). Essen, Museum Folkwang, Gerhard Richter: Die Editionen, 2017, pp. 7, 13 & 30 (another from the edition exhibited). Brisbane, Queensland Art Gallery, Gerhard Richter: The Life of Images, 2017–2018, p. 156 (another from the edition exhibited and illustrated in colour, p. 135). Southampton, John Hansard Gallery, Gerhard Richter, 2018 (another from the edition exhibited). New York, The Shed, Reich Richter Pärt, 2019 (another from the edition exhibited).

Literature:

H. Butin, S. Gronert and T. Olbricht, Gerhard Richter: Editions 1965–2013, Ostfildern Ruit 2014, p. 313, no. 141 (detail in studio installation illustrated in colour, p. 2; illustrated in colour, p. 313). The FLAG Art Foundation and Gregory R Miller & Co., The FLAG Art Foundation 2008-2018, New York 2018 (installation view illustrated in colour, pp. 18-19, 125 & 195).

Provenance:

Private Collection, London. Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2013.