12. Sept. 2015
Gerhard Richter
German, born 1932
2015
A small pencil-on-paper drawing in which Gerhard Richter records faint, tentative lines, smudges, and erased passages as a quiet, diaristic response to the date inscribed on the sheet.
The sheet reads like a ghostly film negative: a soft gray ground pierced by thin, wavering graphite lines, horizontal bands of rubbed-out light, tiny pinprick highlights, and delicate, maplike contours that shift between drawing and memory.
This restrained work extends Richter’s longstanding investigation of photography, painting, and remembrance, using minimal mark-making and erasure to show how images are constructed, recorded, and lost in the act of looking.
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
606.2016.19
Palette
Art Terms
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