After its blockbuster David Hockney show, the Fondation Louis Vuitton turns to another great living artist: Gerhard Richter (17 October–2 March 2026). This exhibition is ordered chronologically, taking us from Table (1962) – which Richter considers his first painting – to drawings made as recently as last year. Richter’s imaginative use of photography to inform both hyper-realistic and abstract paintings is in evidence throughout; his inventive approach to art history is demonstrated by Annunciation after Titian (1973), in which the artist painted and repainted the Old Master’s religious scene five times, each iteration growing hazier. It is a mark of Richter’s versatility – and of his singular vision – that the famous cycle of works depicting members of the Baader-Meinhof gang seems entirely of a piece with abstract works and the Sabine with Child series (1995), family portraits that are by turns tender and unsettling.
Find out more from the Fondation Louis Vuitton’s website.
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