Elisabeth II
- Date
- 1966
- Material
- Offset lithograph
- Classification
- Prints
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 27 9/16 x 23 3/8 in. (70 x 59.4 cm)
framed: 37 1/4 x 33 x 1 3/4 in. (94.6 x 83.8 x 4.4 cm) - Credit Line
- Museum Shop Fund
- Rights
- © Gerhard Richter, 2013
- Object Number
- 164:1990
NOTES
In the 1960s, Gerhard Richter began experimenting with the industrial printing techniques used in this print. "Elisabeth II" is based on a small newspaper photograph of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. Richter suggested the elusive quality of celebrity, creating an anti-portrait through enlargement, blurring, and other manipulations that make the image difficult to read. These interventions also highlight the process of photomechanical reproduction.
Provenance
Joachim Zimmerman, Erbach, Germany [1]
- 1990
Galerie Grässlin Ehrhardt, Frankfurt, Germany
1990 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Galerie Grässlin Ehrhardt, Frankfurt, Germany [2]
Notes:
[1] See Shapiro, Michael Edward. "Gerhard Richter, Paintings, Prints, and Photographs in the Collection of the Saint Louis Art Museum," The Saint Louis Art Museum, 1992 Summer Bulletin: 52.
[2] Invoice dated November 8, 1990 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, December 19, 1990.
- 1990
Galerie Grässlin Ehrhardt, Frankfurt, Germany
1990 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Galerie Grässlin Ehrhardt, Frankfurt, Germany [2]
Notes:
[1] See Shapiro, Michael Edward. "Gerhard Richter, Paintings, Prints, and Photographs in the Collection of the Saint Louis Art Museum," The Saint Louis Art Museum, 1992 Summer Bulletin: 52.
[2] Invoice dated November 8, 1990 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, December 19, 1990.
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