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Gerhard Richter’s “4900 Colours: Version II”

Germans art Gerhard Richter has compiled a piece compromising 4900 brightly colored squares arranged randomly by a concept Richter has coined “controlled chance.” The canvas is aluminium and the panels can be viewed altogether as a single work of art that measures 69 square meters or the work can be displayed as 49 separate pieces.
Posted September 23, 2008