Abstract painting (725-3)
1990
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
225.4 × 203.0 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of Westpac Banking Corporation, Founder Benefactor, 1992
© Gerhard Richter 2010
Gallery location
Level 3, NGV International
About this work
The bold and apparently random gestural marks of this painting are actually the result of careful consideration. Gerhard Richter’s abstract works raise questions about the evident processes of painting and the capacity of a painting to convey meaning and evoke a mood. Richter came to international attention as one of a new wave of important young German painters in the mid 1960s, and throughout his career he has continually juxtaposed genre against genre, exploring the visual and perceptual intersections of realist, romantic or media-related images that all fall within an ongoing project leading to the Abstract Paintings that have dominated Richter’s work since 1976.
Artwork Details
Inscription
inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse u.l.: 725-3
inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse l.r.: Richter / 1990
Accession Number
IC5-1992
Department
Contemporary Art
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Subjects (general)
Nonrepresentational Art
Subjects (specific)
blur colours (hues or tints) multi-coloured