“Child on a Horse” is a figurative artwork created by Gerhard Richter in 1965. The piece belongs to the New European Painting art movement.
The artwork features a child mounted on a horse, depicted with a soft focus that renders the image with a dreamlike, almost ghostly quality. The figures of both the child and the horse appear to dissolve into the background, creating an ethereal scene that is typical of Richter’s technique during this period. The use of a monochromatic palette enhances the timeless and ambiguous nature of the composition. This particular blending of figure and ground through blurred lines exemplifies Richter’s exploration of the boundary between reality and abstraction.
