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1966 70 cm x 65 cm Catalogue Raisonné 137

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Christie's, London, UK: 30 June 2008

Estimate: GBP 750,000 – 1,000,000 USD 1,469,147 – 1,958,863

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Gerhard Richter: Colour Charts Dominique Lévy Gallery, London, UK 13 October 2015 – 16 January 2016

Gerhard Richter: Paintings San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco, USA 15 March 1989 – 28 May 1989

Gerhard Richter: Paintings Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA 14 December 1988 – 12 February 1989

Gerhard Richter: Paintings Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, USA 17 September 1988 – 27 November 1988

Gerhard Richter: Paintings Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto, Canada 29 April 1988 – 10 July 1988

Gerhard Richter Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York, USA 02 February 1980 – 01 March 1980

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Issue	01 January 2020
Publisher	Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
Editor	Pagé, Suzanne
Details	Softcover, 103 pages
ISBN	9782917217696
Language	French
Category	Collections
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 91

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Gerhard Richter: Les cahiers

2020

Issue	01 January 2020
Publisher	Yale University Press, New Haven
Details	Hardback, 269 pages
ISBN	9781588396853
Language	English
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Notes	This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition "Gerhard Richter: Painting After All", 4 March 2020 - 5 July 2020, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and 14 August 2020 - 19 January 2021, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 85, 268 Illustrated: p. 83 (colour)

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Gerhard Richter: Painting After All, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA, 2020

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Gerhard Richter: Painting After All

Wagstaff, Sheena / Buchloh, Benjamin H. D.

2020

Issue	01 January 2017
Publisher	Duke University Press, Durham
Details	Softcover, 163 pages
ISBN	9780822370017
Language	English
Category	Monographs
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 49, 99-100

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Unconsolable Contemporary: Observing Gerhard Richter

Rabinow, Paul

2017

Issue	01 January 2017
Publisher	Hirmer Verlag, München
Editor	Schreier, Christoph / Kunstmuseum Bonn
Details	Softcover, 128 pages
ISBN	9783777428970
Language	German
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 23

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Gerhard Richter: Über Malen / Frühe Bilder

2017

Issue	01 January 2017
Publisher	Edition Folkwang / Steidl, Göttingen
Editor	Museum Folkwang
Details	Softcover, 63 pages
ISBN	9783958293564
Language	German
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 44 Discussed: pp. 29-30

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Gerhard Richter: The Editions , Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany, 2017

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Gerhard Richter: Die Editionen

2017

Issue	01 January 2017
Publisher	The National Gallery in Prague, Prague
Details	Softcover, 205 pages
ISBN	9788070356463
Language	English
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 27-28 Discussed: pp. 22

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Gerhard Richter, Národní galerie v Praze (National Gallery), Prague, Czech Republic, 2017

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Gerhard Richter

Elger, Dietmar / Fajt, Jiří

2017

Issue	01 January 2016
Publisher	Wienand Verlag, Krefeld
Editor	Hentschel, Martin
Details	Hardback, 558 pages
ISBN	9783868323290
Language	German English
Category	Group Exhibitions
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 200, 428

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The Adventure of our Collection I. Reopening of the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany, 2016

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Das Abenteuer unserer Sammlung Kunst nach 1945 aus den Kunstmuseen Krefeld

Hentschel, Martin / Holzhey, Magdalena / Janzen, Thomas / Martin, Sylvia

2016

Issue	01 January 2016
Publisher	Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow
Editor	Allenova, Ekaterina / d'Amora, Delphine
Details	Softcover, 151 pages
ISBN	9785905110818
Language	Russian English
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 21, 37, 38, 48, 59

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The exhibition of Gerhard Richter: Abstraction and Appearance, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow, Russia, 2016

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Gerhard Richter: Abstraction and Appearance

Moorhouse, Paul

2016

Issue	01 January 2016
Publisher	Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld
Editor	Müller-Schareck, Maria
Details	Softcover, 300 pages
ISBN	9783735602787
Language	German
Category	Collections
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 122 Discussed: pp. 125

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Wolke & Kristall - Die Sammlung Dorothee und Konrad Fischer

2016

Issue	01 January 2016
Publisher	Wienand Verlag, Köln
Editor	Groos, Ulrike / Froitzheim, Eva-Marina
Details	Softcover, 168 pages
ISBN	9783868323412
Language	German English
Category	Group Exhibitions
Artwork	Discussed: pp. 34, 39

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[un]expected: The Art of Chance, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, 2016

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[un]erwartet. Kunst des Zufalls

2016

Issue	01 January 2016
Publisher	Routledge, Abingdon
Details	Hardback, 244 pages
ISBN	9781472409560
Language	English
Category	Monographs
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 147, 149 Discussed: pp. 137-143

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The Artwork of Gerhard Richter. Painting, critical theory and cultural transformation

Ansted, Darryn

2016

Issue	01 January 2015
Publisher	Wienand Verlag, Köln
Editor	Zechlin, René
Details	Hardback, 288 pages
ISBN	9783868323030
Language	German English
Category	Group Exhibitions
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 176

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How to live? Images of the Future from Malevich to Fujimoto, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany, 2015

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Wie leben? Zukunftsbilder von Malewitsch bis Fujimoto

Banz, Claudia / Franze, Jana / Kiefer, Theresia / Leinfelder, Reinhold / Zinfert, Maria / Scheja, Yvonne / Tietenberg, Annette

2015

Issue	01 January 2015
Publisher	Dominique Lévy, New York
Details	Hardback, 140 pages
ISBN	9781944379018
Language	English
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 12 Discussed: pp. 20 Illustrated: p. 42, 56-57, 96 (colour)

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Gerhard Richter: Colour Charts, Dominique Lévy Gallery, London, UK, 2015

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Gerhard Richter: Colour Charts

Elger, Dietmar / Butin, Hubertus / Mansoor, Jaleh

2015

Issue	01 January 2012
Publisher	Édition du Centre Pompidou, Paris
Editor	Godfrey, Mark / Serota, Nicholas / Brill, Dorothée / Morineau, Camille
Details	Hardback, 304 pages
ISBN	978-2844265746
ISBN	284426574X
Language	French English
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 124, 202

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Gerhard Richter: Panorama, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, 2012

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Gerhard Richter, Panorama: une rétrospective = a retrospective

Godfrey, Mark / Serota, Nicholas / Brill, Dorothée / Morineau, Camille / Borchardt-Hume, Achim / Dickson, Amy / Haidu, Rachel / Mehring, Christine

2012

Issue	01 January 2011
Publisher	Marsilio, Venezia
Details	Softcover, 219 pages
ISBN	9788831711128
Language	Italian
Category	Monographs
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 23, 141, 181, 190 Discussed: pp. 163-165, 168-173, 174-176, 185-186, 192

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Il bordo del mondo: La forma sguardo nella pittura di Gerhard Richter

Garbin, Emanuele

2011

Issue	01 January 2009
Publisher	University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL
Details	Hardback, 408 pages
ISBN	9780226203232
Language	English
Category	Monographs
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 111, 113, 221, 227, 231, 251, 257 Discussed: pp. 150

Gerhard Richter has been widely regarded as a publicity shy artist. However, the biography Gerhard Richter. A Life in Painting gives an insight into Richter’s personal history as well as into the development of his artistic œuvre.

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Gerhard Richter. A Life in Painting

Elger, Dietmar

2009

Issue	01 January 2008
Publisher	DuMont, Köln
Details	Softcover, 415 pages
ISBN	9783832190651
Language	German
Category	Monographs
Notes	Corrected and extended new edition.
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 188 Discussed: pp. 166, 167, 169

Gerhard Richter has been widely regarded as a publicity shy artist. However, the biography Gerhard Richter, Maler gives an insight into Richter’s personal history as well as into the development of his artistic œuvre.

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Gerhard Richter, Maler

Elger, Dietmar

2008

Issue	01 January 2008
Publisher	Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit
Details	Hardback, 160 pages
ISBN	9783775722490
Language	English
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Artwork	Discussed: pp. 136

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Gerhard Richter: Abstract Paintings, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany, 2008

The book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Gerhard Richter. Abstrakte Bilder at Museum Ludwig, Cologne and Haus der Kunst, Munich. The exhibitions were dedicated to Gerhard Richter’s abstract pictures

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Gerhard Richter. Large Abstracts

Wilmes, Ulrich / Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. / Söntgen, Beate / Stemmrich, Gregor

2008

Issue	01 January 2008
Publisher	Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit
Details	Hardback, 160 pages
ISBN	3775722483
Language	German
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Artwork	Discussed: pp. 136

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Gerhard Richter: Abstrakte Bilder

Wilmes, Ulrich / Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. / Söntgen, Beate / Stemmrich, Gregor

2008

Issue	01 January 2008
Publisher	Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit
Details	Hardback, 144 pages
ISBN	9783775723442
Language	English
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Artwork	Illustrated: p. 120 (colour)

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Gerhard Richter: 4900 Colours, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK, 2008

The catalogue was published to coincide with the exhibition Gerhard Richter: 4900 Colours at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 2008.

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Gerhard Richter. 4900 Colours

Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. / Gidal, Peter / Pelzer, Birgit / Peyton-Jones, Julia / Obrist, Hans Ulrich

2008

Issue	01 January 2005
Publisher	Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit / Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf
Details	Hardback, 96 pages
ISBN	9783775715836
Language	German English
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 86, 87

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Gerhard Richter: Without Colour, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland, 2005

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Gerhard Richter. Ohne Farbe = Without Color

Spieler, Reinhard / Gelshorn, Julian / Kania, Elke / Krystof, Doris

2005

Issue	01 January 2005
Publisher	Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf in association with D.A.P Distributed Art Publishers, New York, NY
Details	Hardback, 324 pages
ISBN	9783937572215
ISBN	393757221X
Language	English
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 48 Discussed: pp. 50-52, 54-56

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This catalogue raisonné records Richter’s works in the years 1993-2004. In his work, Gerhard Richter calls into question painting's boundaries, and the labels applied to painting and theories connected with them.

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Gerhard Richter. Catalogue Raisonné 1993–2004

Zweite, Armin

2005

Issue	01 January 2002
Publisher	DuMont, Köln
Details	Hardback, 420 pages
ISBN	9783832158484
Language	German
Category	Monographs
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 282 Discussed: pp. 185, 186, 188

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Gerhard Richter, Maler

Elger, Dietmar

2002

Issue	01 January 2000
Publisher	Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Details	Unknown binding, 6 pages
Language	English
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 4

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Gerhard Richter in Dallas Collections, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA, 2000

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Gerhard Richter in Dallas Collections

Wylie, Charles

2000

Issue	01 January 1997
Publisher	Yale University Press, New Haven
Details	Hardback, 208 pages
ISBN	0300069758
Language	English
Category	Monographs
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 160

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On Abstract Art

Fer, Briony

1997

Issue	01 January 1996
Publisher	Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit
Details	Hardback, 311 pages
ISBN	3893228608
Language	English German
Category	Group Exhibitions
Artwork	Discussed: pp. 37, 47

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Frieder Burda Collection: Gerhard Richter. Sigmar Polke. Arnulf Rainer, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany, 1996

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Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Arnulf Rainer. Sammlung Frieder Burda = Collection Frieder Burda

Poetter, Jochen / Brehm, Margrit / Möckel, Birgit

1996

Issue	01 January 1993
Publisher	Insel Verlag, Frankfurt a. M.
Details	Softcover, 277 pages
ISBN	3458165606
Language	German
Category	Monographs
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 85

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Text: Schriften und Interviews

Richter, Gerhard / Obrist, Hans Ulrich

1993

Issue	01 January 1987
Publisher	Marian Goodman Gallery / Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
Details	Softcover, 46 pages
Language	English
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 5, 6

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Gerhard Richter: Paintings, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA and Sperone Westwater, New York, USA, 1987

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Gerhard Richter. Paintings

Rorimer, Anne / Zacharopoulos, Denys

1987

Issue	01 January 1986
Publisher	DuMont, Köln
Details	Softcover, 402 pages
ISBN	3770117727
Language	German English
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 366 Illustrated: p. 59 (b/w)

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Gerhard Richter. Bilder = Paintings 1962 - 1985

Harten, Jürgen / Hering, Karl-Heinz / Honisch, Dieter / Loock, Ulrich / Ronte, Dieter / Elger, Dietmar

1986

Issue	01 January 1977
Publisher	Musée national d'art Moderne, Paris
Details	Softcover, 73 pages
ISBN	2858500290
Language	French
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 56

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Gerhard Richter, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, 1977

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Gerhard Richter

Buchloh, Benjamin H. D.

1977

Issue	01 January 1976
Publisher	Verlag Aurel Bongers, Recklinghausen
Details	Hardback, 72 pages
ISBN	3764702877
Language	German
Category	Monographs
Notes	Monographien zur rheinisch-westfälischen Kunst der Gegenwart, Volume 50.
Artwork	Discussed: pp. 8, 9 Illustrated: p. 5 (colour)

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Gerhard Richter

Honnef, Klaus

1976

Issue	01 January 1972
Publisher	Museum Folkwang, Essen
Details	Hardback, 154 pages
Language	Italian German English
Category	Solo Exhibitions
Artwork	Mentioned: pp. 39 Illustrated: p. 60 (b/w)

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36th Venice Biennale, German Pavilion, Venice, Italy, 1972

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Gerhard Richter. 36. Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione tedesco = 36. Biennale in Venedig, Deutscher Pavilion = 36. Biennale in Venice, German Pavilion

Honisch, Dieter / Helms, Dietrich / Honnef, Klaus / Ohff, Heinz / Dienst, Rolf Gunther / Schön, Rolf / Polke, Sigmar

1972

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