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Les Chants de Maldoror – Lautréamont

The Songs of Maldoror – Lautréamont

Liliane & Michel Durand-DessertParisFrance

14 October 1988 - 06 December 1988

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Portrait of Lautréamont

Bildnis Lautréamont
Portrait of Lautréamont

1987 23 cm x 14.5 Catalogue Raisonné:

Watercolour on photograph

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Title
Author
Date
Gerhard Richter. Aquarelle = Watercolors 1964 - 1997
Schwarz, Dieter
1999

Issue

1999

Publisher

Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf

Details

Hardback, 153 pages

ISBN

3933807050

Category

Solo Exhibitions

Exhibitions

For the artist, producing works on paper creates a reflective distance from his painterly oeuvre. It is clearly evident that time and time again Richter returns to watercolours when his oil work moves into a new direction. This is for example apparent when looking at Richter’s abstract pictures. He began to explore different themes and while doing we find the appearance of his first abstract watercolours as well. They are obviously to a different scale and medium but they go to provide a base from which his larger paintings can play off of, and vice versa.

 

This book is composed of over 100 colour reproductions of Richter’s watercolours, as well as a discussion between the artist and Dieter Schwarz examining the diverse strands within his work.

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2 Exhibitions

Les Chants de Maldoror – Lautréamont The Songs of Maldoror – Lautréamont Librairie-Galerie Le Tour du Monde, , France 17 December 1988 - 07 January 1989
Les Chants de Maldoror – Lautréamont The Songs of Maldoror – Lautréamont Galleria Françoise Lambert, , Italy 28 February 1989 - 15 September 2024