Two Candles (Zwei Kerzen)

Contemporary Art

1982

Gerhard Richter
German, born 1932

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Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Gerhard Richter
Title: Two Candles (Zwei Kerzen)
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1982
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed, numbered and dated on verso: “Richter 1982” at bottom right; “497-1” at top left.
Dimensions: 120 × 100 cm (47 1/4 × 39 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Twentieth-Century Discretionary Fund
Reference Number: 1983.207
Copyright: © Gerhard Richter

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.).

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.

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

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