Gerhard Richter, 2.5.89–7.5.89 Sechs Fotos

Gerhard Richter, 2.5.89–7.5.89 Six Photos

Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada

September 10, 2005 – October 22, 2005

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Sechs Fotos. 2.5.89–7.5.89 (a / 2.5.1989)

Six Photos. May 2–7, 1989 (a / 2 May 1989)

1991

35 cm x 50.8 cm

Portfolio with six black-and-white photographs on resin-coated paper

Editions CR: 74a

Richter used a delayed-action shutter release to take this photograph.

50 portfolios, each photograph signed and dated in ink at top right or left (each with its corresponding date; 2.5.89 - 7.5.89), numbered at top left or top right.

2 portfolios, each photograph signed and dated in ink at top right or left (each with its corresponding date; 2.5.89 - 7.5.89), numbered in Roman numerals at top left, marked a.p. on the first sheet of the portfolio.

There are also six individual copies of these photographs overpainted with oil paint, signed and dated in chronological order in ink at top right: 15. Jan. 1990 to 20. Jan. 1990.

This artwork is shown in the following exhibition videos:

  Title Author Date

Gerhard Richter. Maler

Elger, Dietmar

2002

Publisher DuMont, Köln (2002)
Details Hardback, 420 pages
ISBN 9783832158484
Language German
ArtworkMentioned: p. 279
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 [more]