In 2001, Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch brought the painting to auction at Sotheby’s in New York where Eric Clapton bought it together with two other Richters for a total of €2,600,000.

The complicated and tedious, repeatedly interrupted process of its creation remains visible in the picture.

Again, distributed with the squeegee randomly, they dry again, colour layers are here and there scraped off to the ground.

The vertical and horizontal lines created by the movement of the board seem to give the picture, with its abundance of colours, a certain structure and convey a certain aspect of calm and harmony.

According to the artist, these paintings are to a considerable extent dependent on chance and often contradict in their final version of his initial image idea.