"The painting, a version of Titian’s Venetian Annunciation, a blurred impression of the original, represents a comment on the fact that it was "impossible to paint like Titian today, and that the ‘beautiful culture’ of Old Master painting was irretrievable." In an interview (with Michele Leight, in the City Review), Richter had explained, disarmingly, that he had copied the painting from a postcard, "simply because I liked it so much and thought I’d like to have that for myself. To start with I only meant to make a copy, so that I could have a beautiful painting at home and with it a piece of that period, all that potential beauty and sublimity."" http://timescolumns.typepad.com/stothar... - Adriano