Gerhard Richter. Catalogue raisonné. Nos.1-198. 1962–1968

Gerhard Richter’s oeuvre embraces in excess of three thousand individual works. Over a period of five decades he has created a stylistically heterogeneous, complex body of work that testifies to his status as the most important living artist of our time. This long‑awaited first volume of the catalogue raisonné is being re‑leased on the occasion of the artist’s eightieth birthday in Febru‑ary 2012.

The first volume encompasses the works Gerhard Richter assi‑gned numbers 1 to 198, covering the years 1962 to 1968. A total of 385 paintings and sculptures are listed, more than 30 of which were previously unseen or even unknown. Alongside more than 400 full‑color plates (many of them full‑page) and nearly 100 black and white plates, it includes full technical specifications, information about the artist’s handwritten notes, and the provenance, bibliography and exhibitions for each individual work.