CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 8/11/2016

Gerhard Richter: Colour Charts

"Six Yellows" (1966) is reproduced from Gerhard Richter: Colour Charts, new from Dominique Lévy. Gatefolds, historical photographs, installation shots, drawings and scholarly essays surround a rich plate section presenting this historical series inspired by industrially produced paint chips. "In 1966, Gerhard Richter's first Colour Charts revealed a crucial path to making pictures that would avoid the traps of painterly expressivity and artistic subjectivity," Dietmar Elger, Director of the Gerhard Richter Archive, writes. "Even decades later, he described these works as a 'happy stroke of luck' within his oeuvre."