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15:34 GMT, Monday, 22 September 2008 16:34 UK
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Acclaimed German artist Gerhard Richter has created a major new work, 4900 Colours: Version II, for an exhibition at London's Serpentine Gallery.
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Richter is widely regarded as one of the world's best living artists. He produced the first of his grid paintings in 1966, in which he replicated colour paint charts on a large scale.
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He has produced a varied body of work over the years, including photography-based portraits, landscapes, still life and abstract, as well as his colour-chart grid paintings.
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Since 1964, Richter has had more 100 solo exhibitions worldwide, and was the subject of a major touring retrospective in 2002, called Forty Years of Painting.
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In 2003, the artist was second on a list of the worlds top-selling living artists, with sales worth £80.9m.
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4900 Colours: Version II and the accompanying exhibition can be seen at the Serpentine Gallery, in Kensington Gardens, from 23 September until 16 November.
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