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  • Gerhard Richter: Colour Charts

  • Gerhard Richter: Colour Charts

  • Gerhard Richter: Colour Charts

  • Gerhard Richter: Colour Charts

  • Gerhard Richter: Colour Charts

  • Gerhard Richter: Colour Charts

  • Gerhard Richter: Colour Charts

Gerhard Richter: Colour ChartsExhibitions

London
October 13, 2015 - January 16, 2016

Gerhard Richter: Colour Charts

Dominique Lévy is pleased to announce Gerhard Richter: Colour Charts, an exhibition featuring a vital group of paintings selected from the artist’s original nineteen Colour Charts produced in 1966. Presented with the support of the Gerhard Richter Archive, the exhibition is the first to focus on the earliest works of this series since their inaugural appearance at Galerie Friedrich & Dahlem, Munich in 1966. At once paradoxical and coalescent, the Colour Charts highlight an important moment in the artist’s career and are situated across multiple leading art movements of the twentieth century.

In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Colour Charts’ inception, the exhibition brings together works from multiple prominent international institutions. These include the Hamburger Kunsthalle, who is lending 192 Farben (192 Colours), 1966, Richter’s earliest fully realised Colour Chart and the only work from this series executed in oil, and the Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden who is lending Sechs Gelb (Six Yellows), 1966, one of the largest single-panel Colour Charts, originally exhibited at Friedrich & Dahlem in 1966. Gerhard Richter: Colour Charts also features an earlier work, Sänger (Singer), 1965/1966, a Photo Painting with a colour chart of various shades of red painted on the obverse side of the canvas, which provides an integral insight into the artist’s conception of the series. Additionally, Richter’s 180 Farben (180 Colours), 1971, has generously been provided by the Gerhard Richter Archive in Dresden. Comprised of twenty panels, each with a three-by-three grid, this work is the first Colour Chart Richter produced when he returned to the series in 1971, after a five-year hiatus.

Gerhard Richter: Colour Charts is accompanied by a comprehensive book featuring newly commissioned essays by Dietmar Elger, Head of the Gerhard Richter Archive; Hubertus Butin, curator and author of several key texts on Richter; and Jaleh Mansoor, Professor at the University of British Columbia, whose research concentrates on modern abstraction and its socio-economic implications. This book is the first publication dedicated to the original Colour Charts.

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Selected Works

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    Sechs Gelb (Six Yellows), 1966
    Enamel on canvas
    78 3/4 x 67 inches (200 x 170 cm)
    © Gerhard Richter, 2015. Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden.
    Photo: Volker Naumann, Schönaich

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    Fünfzehn Farben (Fifteen Colours),1966-1996
    Enamel on canvas
    78 3/4 x 51 1/8 inches (200 x 130 cm)
    © Gerhard Richter, 2015
    Photo: Tom Powel Imaging, Inc.

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  • Gerhard Richter

    180 Farben (180 Colours), 1971
    Enamel on paper, laid down on hardboard (in twenty parts)
    Each: 24 x 33 7/8 inches (61 x 86 cm)
    © Gerhard Richter, 2015.

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Gerhard Richter: Colour Charts

March 22, 2017

Dominique Lévy London
October 13, 2015 – January 16, 2016

Gerhard Richter: Colour Charts at Dominique Lévy London featured a vital group of paintings selected from the artist’s original nineteen Colour Charts produced in 1966. Presented with the support of the Gerhard Richter Archive, the exhibition was the first to focus on the earliest works of this series since their inaugural appearance at Galerie Friedrich & Dahlem, Munich in 1966.

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