Georg Baselitz

Georg Baselitz 1938 - 2026 Melancholisches Design. 2011. Oil and gold bronze on canvas. Signed, dated “29.XXII.011,” and titled on the reverse side of the canvas. 400 x 300 cm (157.4 x 118.1 in). [CH]. • VARIETY Interplay of spontaneous drawing, dripping, and dynamic painting. • MONUMENTAL The fascinating composition fills the entire space on the large canvas. • REMIX Deeply rooted in European and American art history, he subjects his famous Fraktur paintings from the 1960s to a radical reevaluation. • TRIBUTE In recent years, the artist—who passed away this year—has been honored with major retrospective exhibitions at, among others, the Munch Museum in Oslo (2025), White Cube in London (2024), the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (2023), the Centre Pompidou in Paris (2021/22), and the Fondation Beyeler in Basel (2018). We are grateful to the Georg Baselitz Archive in Munich for their kind assistance. The work is registered in the archive. PROVENANCE: Gagosian Gallery, New York (with the label on the stretcher). From a major private collection, New York (acquired from the above in 2012). EXHIBITION: Georg Baselitz. New Paintings and a Sculpture, Gagosian, New York, Feb. 28–Apr. 7, 2012, pp. 28 and 87 (with illu., p. 29, as well as pp. 2, 11, and 15). LITERATURE: Detlev Gretenkort (ed.), Georg Baselitz. Danse gothique, Écrits et entretiens 1961–2019, Strasbourg 2020 (with illu. no. 123). Detlev Gretenkort (ed.), Georg Baselitz. Collected Writings and Interviews, London 2022, p. 396 (with illu., p. 381). Georg Baselitz, Cahiers d’Art, Paris 2024/25, p. 260 (with illu., p. 147). Called up: December 4, 2026 - ca. 17.42 h +/- 20 min.

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