All of which makes his current show at London’s Dominique Lévy gallery such a delightful surprise. Gerhard Richter: Colour Charts (on view until January 16, 2016) spotlights his lesser-known color-chart paintings from early in his career. The cool, almost clinical series, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, is seminal because the works were among his first to explore color in painting and, for any Richter fan, sheds light on the productive decades to come. The Pop inspiration behind it? Paint sample cards at a Düsseldorf hardware store.
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