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3754*
GERHARD RICHTER
(Dresden 1932 - lives and works in Cologne)
Bagdad. 2014.
Multiple. Diasec mounted chromogenic
print. 350/500. Measurements 49.7 x 39.9
cm on aluminium. On the reverse with
the label and all information, also with the
stamp: Heni Productions and the catalogue
number: P10. In original cardboard box.
Catalogue raisonné: Online catalogue rai-
sonné
(www.gerhard-richter.com),
no. 914-2.
Gerhard Richter, for whom prints have
always occupied an important place in his
oeuvre, decided in 2015 to create his „facsi-
mile objects“ with Heni productions.
The process involved high definition photos
of his paintings, over which he had enamel
paint poured onto a glass surface. These
photos were thus transformed into chro-
matographic prints. Although the „facsimile
objects“ naturally reflect a combination of
chance and the painstaking composition of
the original, there are nevertheless differen-
ces: in part Richter wanted to present them
differently, in part they show a version of a
painting which no longer exists. Even when
these are edition pieces based on existing
paintings, the hand of the artist is never-
theless always present, since he decides
on the originals to be used and the detail in
each case.
At the end of the 2010s Richter began to
examine the theme of the Middle East.
Alongside „Bagdad“, there are the series
„Sinbad“, „Aladin“ and „Abdahlla“, which
also serve as originals for Richter’s „facsi-
mile objects“.
CHF 4 000 / 6 000
(€ 3 700 / 5 560)
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