11.4.88
Gerhard Richter
German, born 1932
1988
A small colored-ink-and-watercolor on paper by Gerhard Richter in which translucent washes and accidental flows are used to probe chance, layering, and the porous boundary between painting and drawing.
The sheet appears like a luminous veil: vertical ribbons of amber, rust and yellow bleed into cooler blues and violets, their wet edges and overlapping transparencies producing a rainlike shimmer where shapes emerge and dissolve.
Part of Richter’s late-1980s experiments, this intimate work fuses control and accident to foreground process and surface, helping to broaden contemporary abstract painting toward procedural, material-driven practices.
Medium
Colored ink and watercolor on paper
Dimensions
6 1/2 x 9 3/8" (16.5 x 23.8 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Walter Bareiss
Accession
257.1990
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