Gerhard Richter
Landscape I | Landschaft I

, 1971

Heliogravure in colors on thin wove paper

50 x 39.9 cm (19.7 x 15.7 in)

Edition of 100

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About Gerhard Richter

Undoubtedly the most prominent living painter of our era, Gerhard Richter’s assent to the top having left East Germany as a student has been nothing short of meteoric. Demand for Gerhard Richter’s work has grown to such intensity in recent years that even the painter himself has expressed his incredulity at the huge sums being paid out. Gerhard Richter’s contribution to art is truly incalculable. At a time when many people were declaring… Read more

About the artwork

Taken from photographs made by Gerhard Richter on a visit to the Canary Islands in the 1960s, there is an intriguing unreality to this work as if the artist was trying to recapture and recreate the strange sense of alienness he must have felt in this foreign land.