Start artist doing portraits on streets of Paris
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Daniel Richter in front of Centre Pompidou (© F.A.Z.-Julia Zimmermann)
Visitors last week to Paris’s Centre Pompidou may have recognized a familiar face among the street artists who do portraits of tourists outside the museum: none other than the German painter Daniel Richter. As the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung’s Niklas Maak reports, Richter joined the street artists incognito and spent two days doing portraits for sums far less than his work typically command in galleries.
Taken from Artforum.com (International News Digest, week of 08.20.07)
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