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Details
GERHARD RICHTER (B. 1932)
Apfelbäume
signed, dated and inscribed '650-2 Richter 1987' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
28 3/8 x 40 1/4 in. (72 x 102.2 cm.)
Painted in 1987
Provenance
Private collection, Cologne (acquired from the artist).
Anon. sale, Phillips, New York, 18 May 2000, lot 28.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Literature
A. Thill, et. al., Gerhard Richter Catalogue Raisonné, 1962- 1993, Ostfildern-Ruit, 1993, vol. III, no. 650-2 (illustrated in color).
Weltkunst, July 2000, no. 7 (illustrated, p. 1315).
D. Elger, Gerhard Richter Maler, Cologne, 2002, pp. 341 and 398.
M. Jacobus, Romantic Things: A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud, Chicago, 2012, pp. 57-60 (illustrated, p. 59, fig. 2.7).
D. Elger, Gerhard Richter Catalogue Raisonné, 1976-1987, Ostfildern, 2013, vol. 3, p. 635, no. 650-2 (illustrated in color).
Exhibited
Sprengel Museum Hannover, Gerhard Richter Landscapes, October 1998-January 1999 (illustrated in color, p. 98).
Maine, Portland Art Museum; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; New Orleans Museum of Art; Seattle Art Museum and New York, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection, October 2015-July 2018, p. 140 (illustrated in color, p. 141 and detail illustrated in color, p. 143).
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