GERHARD RICHTER

For Gerhard Richter (born 1932), the category of drawing covers a multitude of techniques, including graphite, ballpoint, ink, colou red ink and watercolour on paper. Throughout his career, drawings have appeared in series that sometimes only consist of a few works : in the 1960s, representational and mechanical drawings from projected photographs/ in the 1970s, abstract drawings/ in the 1980s, drawings of people and objects/ and in the 1990s, both figurative and abstract ink drawings.