11.9.2015
Gerhard Richter
German, born 1932
2015
A delicate pencil-on-paper drawing in which Richter traces fleeting motion and memory with looping, erased, and smudged marks.
Pale horizontal smudges suggest a hazy horizon while wiry, continuous loops and a few vertical scratches cut through the surface, making the sheet feel both atmospheric and bodily imprinted.
This modest sheet extends Richter’s long investigation of how making and unmaking—gesture, erasure, and chance—can translate perception into marks that blur the line between representation and abstraction.
Medium
Pencil on paper
Dimensions
8 1/4 × 11 5/8" (21 × 29.5 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Catie and Donald Marron
Accession
606.2016.18
Palette
Art Terms
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