Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/gerhard-richter-1841" aria-label="More by Gerhard Richter" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Gerhard Richter</a>
Grey
Lent from a private collection 1992
abstraction
emotions, concepts and ideas
formal qualities
monochromatic
non-representational
purity
<p>During the 1970s Richter produced several groups of grey paintings, attracted to the neutrality and inconspicuousness of the colour. This series followed a set of vibrant colour paintings, and has been seen as a reaffirmation of artistic purity. ‘Grey is the epitome of non-statement’, he has observed, ‘it does not trigger off feelings or associations, it is actually neither visible nor invisible... Like no other colour it is suitable for illustrating ‘nothing’.’ Such observations go hand-in-hand with the artist’s frequently expressed resistance to ideologies of any kind.</p><p><em>Gallery label, April 2007</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
23 April 2007 – 23 March 2008
2008-03-23
27 April 2007 – 23 March 2008
2008-03-23
2007-04-27
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2007-04-23
Gerhard Richter
Collection based display
6 October 2011 – 24 September 2012
2012-09-24
6 October 2011 – 8 January 2012
2012-01-08
2011-10-06
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2011-10-06
Gerhard Richter: Panorama
Exhibition
12 May 2012 – 22 November 2015
2015-11-22
12 May 2012 – 22 November 2015
2015-11-22
2012-05-12
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2012-05-12
Minimalism
Collection based display
26 April 2017 – 3 September 2017
2017-09-03
26 April 2017 – 3 September 2017
2017-09-03
2017-04-26
Kinsky Palace (Prague, Czech Republic)
2017-04-26
Gerhard Richter
Loan-out
Grey
support: 2505 × 1951 × 40 mm
Lent from a private collection 1992
<p>During the 1970s Richter produced several groups of grey <a data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a>, attracted to the neutrality and inconspicuousness of the colour. This series followed a set of vibrant colour paintings, and has been seen as a reaffirmation of artistic purity. ‘Grey is the epitome of non-statement’, he has observed, ‘it does not trigger off feelings or associations, it is actually neither visible nor invisible... Like no other colour it is suitable for illustrating ‘nothing’.’ Such observations go hand-in-hand with the artist’s frequently expressed resistance to ideologies of any kind.</p>
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abstraction emotions, concepts and ideas formal qualities monochromatic non-representational purity