Gerhard Richter: Haggadah
This diasec-mounted chromogenic print by Gerhard Richter was produced in collaboration with Heni Editions and comes from a series of eleven editions by the artist. The work is based on Richter’s unique oil painting Haggadah (2006), whose title refers to the text that recounts the instructions for Jewish Passover and loosely translates to “story,” reflecting the work’s subtle oscillation of form. A layered composition in blue, gray, green, red, and yellow made using a squeegee, Haggadah appears to shift between abstraction, figuration, and three-dimensionality, encapsulating the artist’s dictum: “The intention [is] to invent nothing—no idea, no composition, no object, no form—and to receive everything: composition, object, form, idea, picture.”
Artist: Gerhard Richter
Date: 2014
Medium: Chromogenic print mounted on aluminum
Dimensions: 39 3/8 × 39 3/8 inches (100 × 100 cm)
Edition: Edition 349/500
Signed: Numbered on verso
Printer: Heni Editions
Publisher: Heni Editions
Framed: Sold unframed
