Two Candles (Zwei Kerzen) by Gerhard Richter
Art Institute of Chicago

Two Candles (Zwei Kerzen)

Gerhard Richter · 1982

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The artist; sold through Sperone Westwater Fisher, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1983.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, Sperone Westwater Fischer, Gerhard Richter, Jan. 8–29, 1983, no cat.
  • New York, Museum of Modern Art, An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, May 17–Aug. 27, 1984, no cat. no.
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Avant-Garde in the Eighties, Apr. 23–July 12, 1987, cat. 6.
  • Kansas City, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Gerhard Richter, Aug. 31–Oct. 22, 1989, no cat. no.

Literature

Published references

  • Jurgen Harten, Gerhard Richter, Paintings 1962-1985, exh. cat., (Koln: DuMont, 1986), 263, 395, fig. 497-1.
  • Kynaston McShine, An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1984), 264.
  • Howard N. Fox, Avant-Garde in the Eighties, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art), 35, cat. 6.
  • Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Gerhard Richter, exh. brochure (Kansas City: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1987), n.p. (color ill.).
  • Gerhard Richter: Werkübersicht/Catalogue raisonné 1962-1993, Vol. 3 (Bonn: Kunst–und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1993), no. 497-1 (color ill.), 174.
  • James N. Wood, The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture (Chicago: The Art Institute, 1996), 137 (color ill.).

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