Lot 28
  • 28

Georg Baselitz

Estimate
300,000 - 400,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Georg Baselitz
  • Flieder
  • signed and dated 74; signed, titled and dated 74 on the stretcher

     

  • water-based paint on paper laid down on canvas

  • 199.4 by 161cm.
  • 78 1/2 by 63 3/8 in.

Provenance

Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist)
Sale: Christie's, New York, Contemporary Art, 19 May 1999, Lot 27
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Condition

The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate although the overall tonality is slightly deeper and richer, the paper sheet tones are slightly more golden and the red hues are slightly lighter in the original. This work is in very good condition. Close inspection reveals some very slight lifting, very minor undulation and very faint discoloration at intervals towards the edges of the paper sheet.
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Catalogue Note

"To reinvent painting for yourself, you must address the obvious and the marginal, disrupt the predictable by using what people don't want to look at or are not familiar with. I am always working with a specific idea or motif, trying to restructure it or rebuild it"
The artist in: Exhibition Catalogue, Fort Worth, Modern Art Museum and travelling, Georg Baselitz: Portraits of Elke, 1998-99, p. 17