Executed in pencil alone, this May 2023 drawing exemplifies Richter's concentrated focus on reductive mark-making in his most recent creative period. The singular medium of pencil strips the work to its most essential graphic vocabulary, inviting close attention to line, pressure, and tone. As one of several works created within days of each other, it reveals a prolific and meditative daily studio practice maintained well into the artist's nineties. The date-as-title situates the drawing firmly within real time, reinforcing themes of duration and mortality that permeate his late output.