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Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Published 1989. Paperback, 166 pp.; 27 cm; text in Dutch and English in parallel; edition of 3000 copies; catalogue designed by 8vo, London, printed by Rosbeek, Nuth; illustrated with color plates of the 1988-89 paintings, several double-page, and black-and-white plates of the grey paintings and the October 18, 1977 cycle; list of illustrations, bibliography, exhibitions.
In Very Good condition. Pictorial paper covers with French flaps (a Richter abstract in black and white wrapping front and rear, title in red), sewn binding with the stitching visible in the gutter; moderate shelf wear with rubbing and creasing along spine and outer edges, some color loss along edges and at corners, light bumping to corners. Binding tight. Page 37 has one paragraph of the Buchloh essay bracketed in ink with a small ink dot beside the name Stephen Biko; otherwise unmarked. Catalogue of the exhibition held 15 October to 3 December 1989, organized and edited by Richter together with curator Karel Schampers, for which Richter made some 45 new paintings adapted to the museum's galleries, shown alongside six grey paintings of 1966-76 as points of reference. The new work is in two groups: the large abstracts of 1988-89 (Grad, Lot, Rain, Uran, and others, in a palette restrained to blacks, whites, and greys with color breaking through) and the fifteen photo-paintings of the cycle October 18, 1977, taken from press and police photographs of the last days of the Baader-Meinhof group (Youth Portrait, Confrontation, Hanged, Dead, Funeral, Cell, Record Player). Rotterdam was the cycle's fourth showing, after Krefeld, the Portikus in Frankfurt, and the ICA London earlier in 1989 and before its 1990 American tour. Buchloh's essay, A Note on Gerhard Richter's October 18, 1977, reads the cycle against Warhol's Disasters and against the "polit-kitsch" of recent German history painting; Tilroe's introduction and Schampers's foreword take up Richter's refusal of a fixed style. Contents: Acknowledgements (Wim Crouwel); Foreword (Karel Schampers); Gerhard Richter (Anna Tilroe); A Note on Gerhard Richter's October 18, 1977 (Benjamin H. D. Buchloh); Catalogue; List of Illustrations; Bibliography; Exhibitions.