Woman Descending the Staircase (Frau die Treppe herabgehend)

1. The artist; sold to Johannes Wasmuth, Rolandseck, Germany [this and the following according to Richter 1993, cat. 92] ; sold to the State of Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany; by exchange to Johannes Wasmuth, Rolandseck, Germany; sold through Luhring Augustine, New York, to The Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, Nov. 23, 1993 [according to email from Luhring Augustine, Sept. 15, 2022, copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1997.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Rome, Galleria la Tartaruga, Gerhard Richter, Jan. 20-Feb. 20, 1966, no cat.
• Zurich, City-Galerie Bruno Bischofberger,Gerhard Richter, Mar. 30-Apr. 16, 1966, no cat.
• Los Angeles, Lannan Foundation Gallery, Facts and Figures: Selections for the Lannan Foundation Collection, Oct. 22, 1994-Feb. 26, 1995, no cat.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Gerhard Richter: 40 Years of Painting, Feb. 14–May 21, 2002, no cat. no.; Art Institute of Chicago, June 22–Sep. 15, 2002; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Oct. 11, 2002–Jan. 14, 2003; Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Feb. 20 – May18, 2003.
• Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, International Pop, Apr. 11–Aug. 29, 2015, pl. 95 (as Frau die Treppe herabgehend); Dallas Museum of Art, Oct. 11, 2015–Jan. 17, 2016; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Feb. 24–May 15, 2016.

• Klaus Honnef, Gerhard Richter: Ausstellung, (Aachen: Gegenverkehr, 1969), fig. 61 (ill.)
• Gerhard Richter: 36th Biennale in Venice, German Pavilion (Essen: Museum Folkwang, 1972), 5, cat. 926 (ill.).
• Wilhelm Weber “Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern,” das kunstwerk 28,6. (Berlin: Verlag W. Kohlhammer, 1975), 8, fig. 33 (ill.)
• Klaus Honnef, Gerhard Richter, (Recklinghausen: Verlag Aurel Bongers, 1976), 28.
• Fritz Billeter, “Der eigensinnige Maler Gerhard Richter oder die schwierige Frage nach dem Sinn von Kunst heute,” Tages-Anzeiger Magazin, June 30, 1979, 33.
• Denys Zacharopoulos and Ulrich Loock, Gerhard Richter (Wien: Verlag Silke Schreiber, 1985), 18 (ill.).
• Jurgen Harten “Catalogue raisonné” Gerhard Richter Bilder Paintings 1962-1985 exh. cat. (Koln: DuMont Buchverlag, 1986), 34, 42, no. 92, 363.
• Jonas Storsve, “Gerhard Richter: la peinture á venir,” Art Press 161 (September 1991), 12-20, 20 (color ill.).
• Gerhard Richter: Werkübersicht / Catalogue raisonné 1962-1993, Vol. 3 (Bonn: Kunst–und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1993), fig. 92, p. 151.
• Paul Ardenne: Art. L'âge contemporain, Paris 1997, color ill. p. 81 (requested from Ishare)
• “Calendar,” The Burlington Magazine 139, 1133 (The Burlington Magazine Publications, August 1997), p. 578, no. 77.
• “Galleries of Contemporary Art,” News and Events: The Art Institute of Chicago, May/June 1997, pp. 9-10 (ill.).

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