Gerhard Richter, Vermalung (Braun)

signed, numbered and dated '48 Richter, 72' on the reverse
oil on canvas
27 x 40 cm (10 5/8 x 15 3/4 in.)
Painted in 1972.

Provenance:
Westfälischer Kunstverein, Munster.
Private Collection, Germany
Ketterer Kunst, Munich, 5 December 2006, lot 346
Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)
Est-Ouest, Hong Kong, 28 May 2011, lot 1086
Private Collection
Private Collection (acquired from the above)
Christie's, South Kensington, 14 April 2016, lot 29
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited:
London, Jerome Zodo Gallery, Painting as Neo Avant-Garde, 11 July 2016 – 30 September 2016

Literature:
Gerhard Richter: Bilder 1962-1985., exh. cat., Städtische Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, 1986, nos. 325/1-120, p. 380 (illustrated, p. 148)
Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, ed., Gerhard Richter. Werkübersicht / Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1993, vol. III, Bonn, 1993, no. 325/1-120, n.p. (illustrated)
Hubertus Butin, Gerhard Richter. Editionen 1965-1993, Kunsthalle Bremen, 1993, no. 38, p. 119 (another example from the series illustrated)
Hubertus Butin and Stefan Gronert, eds., Gerhard Richter. Editionen 1965-2004. Catalogue Raisonné, Ostfildern, 2004, no. 46, p. 186 (another example from the series illustrated)
Hubertus Butin, Gerhard Richter und die Reflexion der Bilder, in Hubertus Butin and Stefan Gronert, eds., Gerhard Richter. Editionen 1965-2004. Catalogue Raisonné, Ostfildern, 2004, p. 34 (another example from the series illustrated, p. 186)
Hubertus Butin, Stefan Gronert, and Thomas Olbricht, eds., Gerhard Richter. Editionen 1965-2013, Ostfildern, 2014, no. 46, p. 210 (another example from the series illustrated)
Dietmar Elger, Gerhard Richter. Catalogue Raisonné 1968-1976, vol. 2 (nos. 198 – 388), Berlin, 2017, no. 325/1-120, p. 454 (illustrated, p. 455)