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RICHTER, GERHARD 1932 Dresden - lives and works in Cologne Red-Blue-Yellow. 1973. Oil on canvas. 26,4 x 53,4 cm. Signed and dated verso lower right: Richter, 73. Numbered on top: 72. Galerie Seriaal, Amsterdam (ed.) This painting is copy 72/100. Provenance: Galerie Reinhard Onnasch, Berlin (according to consigner) Private collection, Berlin. Literature: Harten, Jürgen (ed.): Gerhard Richter-Bilder/Paintings 1962-1985, with a catalogue raisonné adapted by Dietmar Elger, Cologne 1986, cat.rais. no 338/72, ill. p. 163 Butin, Hubertus/Gronert, Stefan/Olbricht, Thomas (ed.):Gerhard Richter-Editions 1965-2013, Ostfildern(Cologne 2013, cat.rais. no. 50, ill. p. 214 Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (ed.) Gerhard Richter. Werkübersicht /Catalogue raisonné 1962-1993, vol. III, Ostfildern-Ruit 1993, cat.rais. no 338/72, ill. w/o page target="_blank">Infotext_Gerhard_Richter_358-363_Rot-Blau-Gelb "When I paint an abstract painting, I neither know what it's supposed to look like beforehand, nor where I want to go during the act of painting, what should be done for that. That's why painting is a quasi blind, desperate effort, like that of a penniless maroon in an incomprehensible surrounding - like that of one who owns a specific set of tools, materials and skills and has the urgent desire to build something useful, suitable that mustn't be a house or a chair or something else nameable, who therefore hammers away with the vague hope, that his right, professional conduct will ultimately produce something right and sensible." (Richter, Notizen 1985, in: Gerhard Richter - Text 1961 bis 2007 Schriften - Interviews - Briefe, Cologne 2008, p. 142) In the early 1970s Gerhard Richter started to paint gestural abstractions. Among these are the edition "Vermalung (grey)", Vermalung (brown)", manufactured between 1971 and 1973, and the here presented paintings "Red-Blue-Yellow". For these works a diverse number of small canvases was hung directly next to each other in a block, which was then painted by Richter as a whole with concise, strong paint application and striding, circling brushwork and colour streaks. As Richter applied the paint clinically in endless width, he made the texture of the image alone the subject of painting. Therefore each of the small paintings is on the one hand part of a whole, but after the separation it can on the other hand exist as an independent work, without any reference to the original context. The original overall picture "Red-Blue-Yellow" consisted of 100 canvases which put together had a size of 260 x 534 cm. After the completion the small canvases were sold. The here presented six adjacent individual items formed the bottom left corner.