Gerhard Richter 1

Based on a photograph by Gerhard Richter, the portrait adopts his characteristic painterly blur as a self-referential gesture.
The operation translates the photographic image into painting to inscribe the artist within the self-museological genealogy of “The Paintings Section from Davis Museum Barcelona”.
The work belongs to the “Blue Period”, where the mini museum’s institutional blue reinforces the project’s conceptual coherence.

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Conceptually inspired by a photograph by Gerhard Richter, this painting also adopts his visual language: oil on canvas rendered with a painterly blur that emulates the optical distortion of out-of-focus photographs. It forms part of “The Paintings Section From Davis Museum”, initiated in 2011, which is divided into portraits and still lifes. The portraits depict artists who founded their own museums—Duchamp, Filliou, and Broodthaers—while the still lifes reference their emblematic works: “Boîte-en-valise”, “La galerie légitime”, and “Musée d’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles”. This piece introduces an exception by including Richter, whose work, although external to that museological genealogy, was crucial to the series’ formal development. Executed with high-quality materials, the painting belongs to the “Blue Period,” comprising works produced between 2015 and 2020, marked by the use of the institutional blue of the Davis Museum.