The Gerhard Richter Archive in Dresden is lending 180 Farben (180 Colours), a painting from 1971. It was the first artwork Richter made when he revisited the Color Charts after a five-year hiatus.

In 1966, Gerhard Richter began what became known as the Color Chart paintings, a group of works initially inspired by the strips of colors homeowners find in paint stores that he eventually ...

Gerhard Richter had always positioned himself at the very center ... he denied any transcendence to the chromatic order by claiming the ready-made color charts of paint manufacturers as his matrix ...

Dominique Levy is pleased to announce Gerhard Richter: Colour Charts, an exhibition of paintings selected from the artist's original nineteen Colour Charts produced in 1966. Presented with the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. But it is the big surprise of this Frieze-season show, curated by Lock Kresler. Kresler has ...

German painter Gerhard Richter feels at times like half-a-dozen ... In his abstract work, obsessive neatness (tidy color-chart checkerboards, for instance) alternates with fluid smears and curls ...

Gerhard Richter ... samples in his first color field work, little blocks of color separated by a thin, white grid—just as in those samples—or thin, rectangular charts. In 1974, he created ...