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Property from a Prominent Private Collection

Georg Baselitz

Kullervos Füße

Auction Closed

October 16, 07:07 PM GMT

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Georg Baselitz

b. 1938


Kullervos Füße

signed and dated 67 (lower left)

oil on canvas

162 by 130 cm. 63¾ by 51⅛ in.

Executed in 1967.

Galerie Franz Dahlem, Cologne (acquired by 1970)

Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich

Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne

Mary Boone Gallery, New York 

Galerie Neuendorf, Hamburg

The Saatchi Collection, London (acquired by 1983)

Runkel-Hue-Williams Gallery Ltd and Grob Gallery, London (acquired in 1989)

Galerie Tobias Hirschmann, Frankfurt

The Deyhle Collection, Freiburg (acquired from the above)

Sotheby’s, London, 6 October 1999, lot 253 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner 

Stuttgart, Würtembergischer Kunstverein, Figurationen, July – September 1967, no. 31, p. 18 (checklist)

Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, 14 mal 14, Junge deutsche Künstler, May 1968, p. 18, illustrated

London, Whitechapel Gallery; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; and Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, Georg Baselitz: Paintings 1960-83, September 1983 – April 1984, p. 39, illustrated in colour (London, 1983); and p. 94 (checklist) (Amsterdam, 1984)

New York, Mary Boone / Michael Werner, Georg Baselitz, November – December 1987, no. 5, n.p., illustrated in colour

London, Runkel-Hue-Williams Gallery Ltd and Grob Gallery, Georg Baselitz: Paintings/Bilder 1962-1988, September – November 1990, p. 27, illustrated in colour; and p. 68, illustrated

Aarhus, Åarhus Kunstmuseum, Melankoli, Nordisk Romantisk Maleri, September – November 1991, no. 54, p. 89, illustrated in colour

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Georg Baselitz, September – December 2007, no. 74, p. 128, illustrated in colour

Helsinki, Helsinki Art Museum, Georg Baselitz – Remix, April – August 2010, no. 17, p. 79, illustrated in colour

Sarah Kent, Art of Our Time: The Saatchi Collection, London 1984, no. 3, n.p., illustrated in colour

Andreas Franzke, Georg Baselitz, Munich 1989, no. 86, p. 100, illustrated in colour

Roy Boyne, "Fractured Subjectivity," in Chris Jenks, ed., Visual Culture, London 2017, no. 4.4, p. 69, illustrated

Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Georg Baselitz, Cologne 2022, p. 127, illustrated in colour (2025 reprint)