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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1984.194
People
Gerhard Richter, German (Dresden, Germany 1932 -)
Title
Said
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1983
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Germany
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/287714

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
actual: 260 x 200 cm (102 3/8 x 78 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: On verso in black ink: Richter 1983
  • inscription: on verso, in black ink: "SAID"

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Lufthansa German Airlines
Copyright
© Gerhard Richter 2021
Accession Year
1984
Object Number
1984.194
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press, 1985). With an essay by John Coolidge and a preface by John M. Rosenfield. To accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Sackler Museum, Oct 21 1985 - Jan 5 1986, p. 120, fig. 119, ill. (color)
  • Peter Nisbet and Emilie Norris, Busch-Reisinger Museum: History and Holdings, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1991), p. 96, ill.
  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
  • Celka Straughn, Stratification: An Installation of Works since 1960, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2005), [n.p.] ill. (color)
  • Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 23
  • Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), p. 239, ill.
  • This Will Have Been: Art, Love and Politics in the 1980s, exh. cat. (Chicago and New Haven, 2012), pp. 113-114, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Gerhard Richter Retrospective, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 04/29/1988 - 07/10/1988; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, 09/17/1988 - 11/27/1988; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., 12/14/1988 - 02/12/1989; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 03/15/1989 - 05/28/1989
  • Stratification: An Installation of Works since 1960, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 09/17/2005 - 02/26/2006
  • This Will Have Been: Art, Love, and Politics in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, 02/11/2012 - 06/03/2012; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 06/30/2012 - 09/30/2012; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Boston, 11/16/2012 - 03/03/2013
  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/23/2016 - 01/08/2017

Subjects and Contexts

  • Collection Highlights

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