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GEORG BASELITZ (B. 1938)

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Lot 20 | GEORG BASELITZ (B. 1938)
GEORG BASELITZ (B. 1938)

Elke I

signed and dated ‘G. Baselitz 1975' (lower right); signed, titled, inscribed and dated 'Elke 1 G baselitz 1975 Derneburg' (on the overlap); signed, titled, inscribed and dated '1975 Derneburg G Baselitz Elke 1' (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

63 3/4 x 51 1/8in. (162 x 130cm.)

Painted in 1975





Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in 1976.



Literature

D. Ronte, Hess Collection, New York 1989, no. 36 (illustrated in colour, p. 49).

D. Gretenkort (ed.), Georg Baselitz: Paintings 1962-2001, Milan 2002, p. 221 (illustrated in colour, p. 88).

L. Cuénoud (ed.), Georg Baselitz Works from the Hess Collection, Bern 2003, pp. 48 and 54 (illustrated in colour, p. 55, titled 'Elke 1 - Derneburg').

Forme per il David / Forms for the David, exh. cat., Florence, Galleria dell’Accademia, 2004-2005 (illustrated in colour, p. 274).



Exhibited

Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, Bilder einer Ausstellung, 1979, no. 1, p. 6 (illustrated, p. 3).

Fort Worth, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Georg Baselitz: Portraits of Elke, 1997-1999, pp. 44 and 120, no. 6 (illustrated in colour, p. 45). This exhibition later travelled to Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art; Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art and Monterrey, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey.

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Georg Baselitz en la Colección Hess, 2003-2004, no. 4, pp. 48 and 54 (illustrated in colour, p. 55). This exhibition later travelled to Bern, Kunstmuseum Bern.

Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, Baselitz, une seule passion, la peinture, 2006, pp. 150 and 165, no. 30 (illustrated in colour, pp. 45 and 151).

Lugano, Museo d’Arte Moderna, Georg Baselitz, 2007, no. 34 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).

Salzburg, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Georg Baselitz. Gemälde und Skulpturen 1960–2008, 2009, p. 90 (illustrated in colour, p. 91).



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Artist:Georg Baselitz (1938)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Post War Art, Contemporary art
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