In Townscape Paris in particular, it is difficult to distinguish streets from houses. (gerhard-richter.com)
In the course of his preoccupation with the city of Milan as a motif, he also created the paintings Townscape M1 to M9. (gerhard-richter.com)
... The series Townscapes M1 up to M9 illustrates Gerhard Richter's engagement in the process of abstraction: starting from a concrete depiction, which was enlarged at first and then cropped, the final image can barely be traced back to the source photograph. (greg.org)