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GEORG BASELITZ (B. 1938)

Lot 19
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ID 908043
Lot 19 | GEORG BASELITZ (B. 1938)
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GEORG BASELITZ (B. 1938)

Frau Paganismus (Mrs Paganism)

incised with the artist’s initials and date ‘G.B. 28.II.94’ (lower inside right arm)

Ayous wood and synthetic resin

sculpture: 85 5/8 x 51 7/8 x 26 3/4in. (215 x 132 x 68cm.)

base: 15 x 68 3/4 x 68 3/8in. (38.1 x 174.6 x 173.7cm.)

Executed in 1994





Provenance

Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London.

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1994.



Literature

D. Kuspit, ‘Goth to Dance’, in Artforum International, Summer 1995 (illustrated in colour, p. 78).

E. Darragon, Baselitz à Paris, exh. cat., Paris, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1996 (illustrated, p. 33).

Baselitz, exh. cat., Bologna, Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, 1997 (studio view illustrated in colour, p. 131).

Georg Baselitz: Portraits of Elke, exh. cat., Fort Worth, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 1997-1999, p. 25 (titled ‘Mrs. Paganismus’, illustrated in colour, p. 26).

E. Darragon, ‘Baselitz avec sculpture’, in De la sculpture au XXe siècle, Grenoble 2001, p. 130 (illustrated in colour, p. 126).

L. Cuénoud (ed.), Georg Baselitz Works from the Hess Collection, Bern 2003, pp. 4, 48 and 58 (detail illustrated in colour on the front and back cover; studio view illustrated in colour, p. 51; illustrated in colour, pp. 59-61; translated 'Pagan woman').

Hess Art Collection, Ostfildern 2009, p. 50 (studio view illustrated in colour, p. 55).

C. Kraus (ed.), Georg Baselitz: Skulpturen / Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Sculptures, Berlin 2009, no. 48 (illustrated in colour, pp. 170-171).

T. Jean (ed.), ‘Baselitz sculpteur au musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris’, in BeauxArts, 2011, p. 23 (illustrated in colour, p. 22).

B. Vasseur (ed.), Georg Baselitz, Paris 2011, p. 36 (illustrated in colour, p. 37).

R. Calvocoressi (ed.), Georg Baselitz, London 2021, pp. 280 and 291 (illustrated in colour, p. 290).



Exhibited

London, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, Frau Paganismus, 1994, pp. 8-10, 27 and 45 (studio view illustrated, p. 3; illustrated in colour, pp. 29, 31 and 33; details illustrated, pp. 30 and 32; studio view illustrated in colour, p. 44).

London, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, Sculpture, 1995, p. 111, no. 4 (unpaged, illustrated in colour).

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Georg Baselitz, 1995, pp. 118 and 273, no. 111 (studio view illustrated in colour, p. 116; illustrated in colour, p. 117). This exhibition later travelled to Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution; Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz.

Luxembourg, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’art contemporain, New Works from the Hess Collection, 1998, p. 8 (illustrated in colour, p. 9).

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Georg Baselitz en la Colección Hess, 2003-2004, pp. 48 and 58 (detail illustrated in colour on the front and back cover; studio view illustrated in colour, p. 51; illustrated in colour, pp. 59-61). This exhibition later travelled to Bern, Kunstmuseum Bern.

Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, Baselitz, une seule passion, la peinture, 2006, pp. 138 and 166, no. 71 (illustrated in colour, pp. 91 and 139).

Lugano, Museo d’Arte Moderna, Georg Baselitz, 2007, no. 84 (unpaged, illustrated in colour).

Paris, Musée D’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Baselitz-Sculpteur, 2011-2012, pp. 126 and 167, no. 30 (illustrated in colour, pp. 119 and 127; studio view illustrated in colour, p. 166).



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Artist:Georg Baselitz (1938)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Post War Art, Contemporary art
Place of origin:Western Europe, Germany, Europe
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