JULIAN SCHNABEL | RECEIVERSHIP (FROM "ORNAMENTAL DESPAIR")

Julian Schnabel truly broke into the art scene in the early 1980s with his “plate paintings” – large-scale paintings created on broken ceramic plates. This work is of that period, and was painted in the same year as his inclusion in the Venice Biennale with Anselm Kiefer and George Baselitz. Indeed, Receivership From Ornamental Despair calls to mind the works of Schnabel’s German Neo-Expressionist peers Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz and Albert Oehlen. Here, Schnabel offers a hybrid of figuration and abstraction, line and form.