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War Cut II F is a special edition (30 copies) of the French edition of the artist's book War Cut (published in collaboration with Paris-Musées in 2005).

The edition contains 340 pages and 216 illustrations showing details from Abstract Painting [CR: 648-2], 1987, accompanied by 155 texts taken from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of March 20 and 21, 2003 (the beginning of the Iraq War) in French translation. The edition also contains an index of the printed texts and some short, untitled remarks by Gerhard Richter. The edition has a flexible cardboard cover with red linen covering, and yellow, red, blue, and black offset print.

For the War Cut II F special edition, each of the 30 copies has a unique cover painted by Richter.

Edition:
30 copies in light grey cardboard slipcase (designed by Richter), signed, dated, numbered and marked F in graphite pencil on the endpaper, also signed, dated and numbered in black ink on the last page; oil paint on book cover applied with squeegee by Richter.

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War Cut I
2004 Catalogue Raisonné: 124 edit

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