About this artwork
Gerhard Richter is one of the foremost European painters of the postwar period. Beginning in the early 1960s, he enlarged and transferred onto canvas found images such as personal snapshots or photographs drawn from newspapers or magazines, which he then blurred by dragging a dry brush over the wet pigment. As Richter explained, “I blur things to make everything equally important and equally unimportant … I blur things to make all the parts a closer fit. Perhaps I also blur out the excess of unimportant information.” Mouth (Mund), one of the artist’s earliest surviving canvases, is derived from a photograph of the French actress Brigitte Bardot.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Contemporary Art
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Artist
- Gerhard Richter
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Title
- Mouth (Mund)
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Place
- Germany (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- 1963
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Medium
- Oil on canvas
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Dimensions
- 67 × 74 cm (26 1/2 × 29 1/4 in.)
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Credit Line
- Through prior gift of Mrs. Henry C. Woods; gift of Lannan Foundation
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Reference Number
- 1997.173
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Copyright
- © Gerhard Richter
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