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| | SFMOMA | Exhibitions | Exhibition Overview: RICHTER 858 |
 | | Contemporaneous with the exhibition opening, RICHTER 858, an extraordinary book of poems, essays, and music inspired by and specially commissioned for the series, will be released internationally. |
 | | One of the rare groups of Richter abstractions to remain fully intact, Abstract Pictures (858) consists of eight intensely colored and formally complex paintings, which were among the first works completed by the artist in the summer of 1999, after recovering from a serious illness. |
 | | A limited edition volume, RICHTER 858, published by The Shifting Foundation in association with SFMOMA, combines 61 unparalleled reproductions of Gerhard Richter’s 858 painting suite with poems by 13 American poets, essays by Dave Hickey and Klaus Kertess, and a full-length music CD by Bill Frisell. |
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