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UBER MALEN – FRUHE BILDER. 2017.

paul robertson — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 13:29:30 +0000

Bonn: Kunst Museum Bonn, 2017 21 x 10.4cm, 2pp announcement card for a solo museum show by Richter. One detail of an abstract work on front ("Vorhang IV" from 1965) and overleaf three small images of works and museum details. VG+.

FUJI. 2019.

paul robertson — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 13:25:13 +0000

Dusseldorf: Grisebach, 2019 15 x 21cm, 2pp announcement card for an auction that included Gerhard Richter's large abstract painting Fuji from 1996 - that is reproduced on the front of the card in colour. Verso auction details. VG+.

LANDSCHIFT I. 1971. ONE OF 100 SIGNED DATED EXAMPLES. IN BEAUTIFUL GLASS & WALNUT FRAME.

paul robertson — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:52:32 +0000

Munich: Galerie Heiner Freidrich, 1971

50.5 × 40 cm (paper size), full colour heliogravure on light cardboard. The first of Richter's landscapes based on photographs of the Canery island that he took from the air in 1969. Signed and dated in pencil by Richter. Now very scarce on the open market. This example is VG++ in a lovely walnut and glass frame.

128 DETAILS FROM A PICTURE. FIRST EDITION. 1980.

paul robertson — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 13:40:08 +0000

Halifax: The Press of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1980

19 x 27 cm. Card covers. First edition. Artist's book detailing close-up b/w images of a Richter painting. Near fine apart from a couple of small tears on top and bottom of spine. Very scarce.

2 SEESTUCK. 1975. DESIGN BY RICHTER – ONLY CIRCA 50 COPIES RELEASED

paul robertson — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 13:35:10 +0000

Bremerhaven: Kabinett fur aktuelle Kunst, 1975 50 x 48 cm, exhibition poster with silkscreened gallery text along the bottom and tipped-on b/w offset plate (approx 12.5 x 16cm) displaying the title oil painting of a seescape from 1975.Â As with most posters from the Kabinett - the poster was designed by the artist and printed by the Kabinnet director Juergen Wessler himself on facilities in the basement of the Bremerhaven Kunstehalle basement and to keep costs down and because no more ere required typically only 50 or so posters were produced by this method. One slight mark left (see pic) but else VG. Very scarce indeed.

BLUMEN. 1993. TELEPHONE CARD – ONE OF 99 SIGNED EXAMPLES.

paul robertson — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 11:30:48 +0000

Berlin: Deutschen Aids-Stiftung, 1993 21 x 12cm, 4pp printed card folder with an image of the painting Blumen by Richter from the same year as publication. Inside tipped on plastic pocket containing a telephone card with the same image. This was a charity object multiple issued in 1.000 copies but the first 99 were stamped with a number and signed in blue ink by the painter. This is number 47 from the edition. VG+.

ATELIER (STUDIO). ONE OF ONLY 150 SIGNED AND NUMBERED EXAMPLES

paul robertson — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 10:10:17 +0000

Berlin: Rene Block, 1968 45 x 32 cm lithograph in two shades of grey on white offset paper. A very early Richter print which was produced for the Block stand at the Koln Art Fair in 1968. One of only 150 signed and numbered copies released: the image is of Richter's studio in Dusseldorff and is a typical blurred image from the artist's earliest style. Fine and very rare. Framed (conservationally) in glass and wood.

ABOUT PAINTING. (CHAIR) 2017.

paul robertson — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 16:27:25 +0000

Germany: SMAK, 2018 69 x 50cm, full colour offset exhibition poster with one of the artist's early b/w paintings on it. VG++.

KUNST DER SECHZIGER JAHRE. (ART OF THE SIXTIES). 1970. SCARCE SECOND EDITION. DESIGNED BY WOLF VOSTELL.

paul robertson — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 10:29:34 +0000

Koln: Sammlung Ludwig, Wallraff Richartz Museum, 1970

30 x 25,5 x 7cm, unpaginated (appr. 250 pp). Transparent plastic covers, plexiglass spine, the all bound with metal screws. Texts throughout in both German and English by Evelyn Weiss. The all encompassing exhibition catalogue which accompanied the famous exhibition of "Art of the Sixties" from the Ludwig collection.

Printed on styrofoam and brown wrapping papers with full colour plates tipped on and with b/w portraits of the artists printed on transparent foiles, this is the scarce second edition (the first is very rare) amongst the five different editions issued during the run of the show, each of which was extended and increased in size.

The artists featured cover the entire range of pop art and include J. Albers, J. Beuys, Cy Twombly, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Rauschenberg, Jim Dine, Allen Jones, Lucia Fontana, Jasper Johns, Yves Klein, Donald Judd, Gerhard Richter, et al.

This is a tour-de-force of book art as designed by Wolf Vostell. This copy is in near fine condition and is scarce as the second edition (as noted above the first is extremely scarce and the three other editions after this one much less so). A lovely item indeed.

1025 FARBEN (1974). 2018.

paul robertson — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 14:38:00 +0000

Germany: SMAK, 2018 69 x 50cm, full colour offset exhibition poster with one of the artist's colour swatch paintings on it. VG++.

NEW WORKS ON PAPER. 1992.

paul robertson — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 07:50:18 +0000

London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992 15 x 21cm, 2pp typographic design announcement card for new works by Richter, Weiner and Long. VG+.

SOMETHING ELSE. 1986.

paul robertson — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 18:03:00 +0000

Krefeld: Krefelder Kunstmuseum, 1986 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card for a group show with works by Robert Barry, Joseph Beuys, John Chamberlain, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Bruce Nauman, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, and France Erhard Walther. One work by Barry reproduced on the front in b/w. A mailed copy with typed address and frank impression.