1971, Gerhard Richter, Brigid Polk -- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
From the museum label: This is one of many portraits that Richter created of Brigid Berlin (also known as Brigid Polk), an American artist who frequently collaborated with Andy Warhol. Often seen carrying a Polaroid camera, Polk used a timer to capture herself throughout her day. Richter based this composition on one of many Polaroids taken during Polk's visit to Germany in 1970 for a solo exhibition and painted it with the slight blur and muted tones of the original picture. Capturing Polk's exuberant persona and the immediacy and intimacy of a snapshot in paint, Richter described in 1972, "I'm not trying to emulate a photograph, I want to produce one."
1971, Gerhard Richter, Brigid Polk -- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
From the museum label: This is one of many portraits that Richter created of Brigid Berlin (also known as Brigid Polk), an American artist who frequently collaborated with Andy Warhol. Often seen carrying a Polaroid camera, Polk used a timer to capture herself throughout her day. Richter based this composition on one of many Polaroids taken during Polk's visit to Germany in 1970 for a solo exhibition and painted it with the slight blur and muted tones of the original picture. Capturing Polk's exuberant persona and the immediacy and intimacy of a snapshot in paint, Richter described in 1972, "I'm not trying to emulate a photograph, I want to produce one."