Dated May 24, 2023, this third variant from a single day's session exemplifies Richter's sustained engagement with drawing as an exploratory discipline late in his career. The numerical designation within the date implies a productive burst of creative activity, suggesting the artist worked through multiple sheets in close succession. Ink and pencil on paper provides a flexible yet revealing medium, where erasure, overworking, and layering all leave legible traces. The work sits within a broader context of his recent drawings that have attracted significant critical attention as evidence of an artist continuing to push boundaries in his tenth decade.