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Gerhard Richter
48 Portraits1998

Not on view
Black and white composite photograph of forty-eight individual head-and-shoulders portraits of white men arranged in three rows, with varying contrast and lighting across each portrait
Installation view of a grid of large black and white portrait photographs covering three walls of a white gallery room, each depicting a different man's face rendered in high contrast.

Gerhard Richter, 48 Portraits, 1998, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by Alice and Nahum Lainer, Marilyn and Calvin Gross, Elyse and Stanley Grinstein, and Lynda and Stewart Resnick through the 2001 Collectors Committee; Susan Bay-Nimoy and Leonard Nimoy; and the Ralph M. Parsons Discretionary Fund, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Gerhard Richter
Germany, Dresden, born 1932
Title
48 Portraits
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1998
Medium
(Forty-eight) gelatin-silver prints, mounted on aluminum, and transverse mounted onto plexiglas, each with accompanying name plate
Dimensions
Image and mount: 27 1/8 x 21 1/4 x 1 in. (68.9 x 53.98 x 2.54 cm) each
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Alice and Nahum Lainer, Marilyn and Calvin Gross, Elyse and Stanley Grinstein, and Lynda and Stewart Resnick through the 2001 Collectors Committee; Susan Bay-Nimoy and Leonard Nimoy; and the Ralph M. Parsons Discretionary Fund
Accession Number
M.2001.81.1-.48
Classification
Installation Art
Collecting Area
Photography
Copyright
© Gerhard Richter