Lot 41: GERHARD  RICHTER  AND  BLINKY  PALERMO

B.  1932  AND  1943-1977
UNTITLED
each  diptych:  signed  and  dated  1970  by  both  artists  on  the  reverse
oil  on  canvas,  two  diptychs
each  diptych:  59  x  128  in.      150  x  325  cm.

Cologne, Heiner Friedrich Gallery, Gerhard Richter und Blinky Palermo, March - April 1972
Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, 1985 (long term loan)

Exh. Cat., Venice, German Pavilion, XXXVI Biennale Internazionale dell'Arte, Gerhard Richter, 1972, cat. no. 303, p. 60, illustrated and cat. 304, p. 61, illustrated
Bernhard Kerber, Art International, no. 6/7, 1972, p. 144 (text)
Klaus Honnef, Gerhard Richter, Reckinghausen, 1976, p. 39, illustrated in color
Jürgen Harten, Gerhard Richter: Bilder/Paintings 1962-1985, Cologne, 1986, p. 379 (text), cat. nos. 303 and 304, p. 134, illustrated
Angelika Thill, et. al., Gerhard Richter: A Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1993, vol. III, Ostfildern-Ruit, 1993, cat. nos. 303 and 304, illustrated in color
Thordis Moeller, Palermo. Bilder und Objekte. Werkverzeichnis, vol. 1, Bonn, 1995, cat. no. 151, illustrated in color
Dietmar Elger, Gerhard Richter. Maler, Cologne, 2002, p. 227 (text)
Gerhard Richter, "To the people…" Sprechen über Blinky Palermo, Cologne, 2003, p. 77 (text)
Christine Mehring, Blinky Palermo. Abstraction of an Era, New Haven and London, 2008, p. 210 and p. 211, illustrated in color
Christine Mehring, "Glühbirnen und Monochrome: Die Wahlverwandschaften von Richter und Palermo," Blinky Palermo. To the People of New York City, Düsseldorf and New York, 2009, pp. 73-4 and p. 72, illustrated
Christine Mehring, Jeanne Anne Nugent, and Jon L. Seydl, eds., Gerhard Richter. Early Work 1951-1972, Los Angeles, 2010, pp. 116-118 and p. 118, illustrated
Exh. Cat., New York, Dia Art Foundation (and travelling). Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964-1977, 2010-2011, p. 21, illustrated in color (installation in Richter's studio)

Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf
Dr. Maria Siemer, Bochum
Galerie Schönewald und Beuse, Krefeld
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
Acquired by the present owner from the above in April 1999