Lot 219
  • 219

Georg Baselitz

Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 GBP
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Description

  • Georg Baselitz
  • Weißes und schwarzes Pferd
  • signed with the artist's initials and dated 15 X 86; signed, titled and dated 10 X 86 + 15. X. 86 on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 146 by 114 cm. 57 1/2 by 44 7/8 in.

Provenance

Michael Werner Gallery, Cologne
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the 1980s

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is slightly more vibrant in the original. The catalogue illustration also fails to fully convey the textured impasto visible in the original. Condition: This work is in good condition. Extremely close inspection reveals evidence of very light wear along the edges, as well as a few very fine tension cracks running intermittently along the extreme outer edges. Further very close inspection reveals some fine networks of drying cracks isolated to the areas of white paint. No restoration is apparent when examined under ultraviolet light.
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Catalogue Note

“I also orient the figure to come from different sides of the canvas, but in the beginning it was important to just paint the figure upside down. That was the most disruptive in terms of breaking convention. It creates a healthy disorder. 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.”

GEORG BASELITZ
quoted in Exh. Cat., Texas, Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, Georg Baselitz: Portraits of Elke, 1997, p.17