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GERHARD RICHTER
(B. 1932)
Ophelia
1998

24 March 2022, 16:00 GMT
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GERHARD RICHTER (B. 1932)

Ophelia
1998

signed and numbered 8/35 on a label affixed to the reverse
Cibachrome between Plexiglass and Alucobond plates

102 by 116.3 cm.
40 3/16 by 45 13/16 in.

This work was executed in 1998 and is number 8 from an edition of 35, plus 3 artist's proofs.


Footnotes

Provenance
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London (A017916)
Private Collection, Italy
Sale: Sotheby's, London, Bear Witness, 10 March 2015, Lot 103
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Exhibited
London, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, Gerhard Richter 1998, 1998, p. 21, illustrated in colour, another example exhibited
Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, Gerhard Richter in Dallas Collections, 2000, another example exhibited
Stuttgart, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen; Hanoi, National Art Museum; Moscow, National Centre of Contemporary Art; San Luis Potosí, Centro de las Artes; et al, Gerhard Richter: Survey, 2000-2013, p. 58, illustrated in colour, another example exhibited
Friedrichshafen, Kunstverein Friedrichshafen, Gerhard Richter: Editionen 1969-1998, 2001, another example exhibited
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Contemporary Art and Photography: Spotlight on the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2001-2002, another example exhibited
Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Photography Transformed, 2002, p. 248, illustrated in colour, another example exhibited
Bonn, Kunstmuseum Bonn; Lucerne, Kunstmuseum Luzern; Emden, Kunsthalle Emden; Tübingen, Kunsthalle; Salzburg, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Gerhard Richter: Editions 1965-2004, 2004-2005, p. 245, no. 96, illustrated in colour, another example exhibited
Düsseldorf, Galerie Schönewald und Beuse, Gerhard Richter: Selected Editions, 2008, another example exhibited
Munich, Galerie Leu, Gerhard Richter: Paintings and Editions, 2008, another example exhibited
Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, Two x Two x Ten: Celebrating Ten Years of Two by Two for Aids and Art, 2008-2009, another example exhibited
Berlin, Billirubin Gallery, Raw Material, 2009, another example exhibited
Leicester, New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Gerhard Richter: Epoch (Artist Rooms), 2010-2011, another example exhibited
Weserburg, Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Color in Flux: 20th Anniversary of the Weserburg, 2011-2012, another example exhibited
Berlin, me Collectors Room, Gerhard Richter: Editions 1965–2011, 2012, another example exhibited
Turin, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Gerhard Richter: Editions from the Olbricht Collection 1965–2012, 2013, another example exhibited
Albertinum, Galerie Neue Meister; Winterthur, Kunstmuseum Winterthur; Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Streifen und Glas, 2013-2014, p. 31, illustrated in colour, another example exhibited
Munich, Kunstbau München, Gerhard Richter: Atlas – Mikromega, 2013-2014, another example exhibited
London, Marian Goodman Gallery, Gerhard Richter, 2014, p. 7, illustrated in colour, another example exhibited
Düsseldorf, Setareh Gallery, Gerhard Richter: Selected Editions, 2016, another example exhibited
Essen, Folkwang Museum, Gerhard Richter: Die Editionen, 2017, another example exhibited

Literature
Helmut Friedel and Robert Storr, Gerhard Richter; Rot, Gelb, Blau, Munich 2011, p. 116, another example illustrated in colour
Hubertus Butin, Stefan Gronert and Thomas Olbricht, Gerhard Richter: Editions 1965-2013, Ostfildern 2014, p. 267, another example illustrated in colour

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