Marian’s Richter Goes Both Ways?

The main thing to point out is that the entire gerhard-richter.com website has been down for months, and there is no information about it. The website was always a project by/for/with collector/lawyer/facsimile object printer/eventual HENI founder Joe Hage. I’m sure there other people in Richterwelt–dealers, wives, kids, archivist/catalogue raisonné editors, studiovolk, foundations—with views about the website, and maybe even plans for it. In the mean time, there’s now a giant, website-shaped hole where exhaustive, open, authoritative information about the artist’s work, publications, exhibitions, and chronology used to be. Christie’s scale rendering of Marian Goodman’s 1995 Gerhard Richter painting, Poppies/Mohn [CR 830-1] in vertical orientation Which means when Marian Goodman’s Richter paintings turn up for sale at Christie’s, there’s no easy way to research which way this incredible 1995 squeegee painting, Poppy/Mohn [CR 830-1], is supposed to go. Because Christie’s shows it in…