Seascape (Slightly Cloudy) is an oil-on-canvas painting executed in 1969 by German artist Gerhard Richter.
[1] The painting was created in 1969 as the first in the series Seascapes, in which Richter dealt with the subject of the sea, sky and clouds.
[2] The picture was first presented in 1970 as part of the exhibition "Gerhard Richter, Blinky Palermo, Günther Uecker" at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, then in 2014 in the inaugural exhibition of the Louis Vuitton Foundation, in Paris, and in 2017 at the National Gallery in Prague.
These paintings are characterized by a low, long horizon, waves, clouds, haze and fog, breaking light, subtle color effects and smooth brushwork.
The Seascapes are constructed images, created on the basis of composite sections from photographs; they do not depict a real landscape.