Untitled (B. für Larry)

Details

Georg Baselitz (b. 1938)
Untitled (B. für Larry)
signed and dated 'GB 68 Baselitz' (lower right)
charcoal and watercolour on paper
27 5/8 x 19 ½in. (70.1 x 49.5cm.)
Executed in 1968

Provenance

Walter & Molly Bareiss Collection, Connecticut.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Exhibited

Munich, Galerieverein München e. V. und Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst, Georg Baselitz, 1976, no. 75 (illustrated, p. 71).
New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, German Drawings of the 60s, 1982, no. 10 (illustrated, p. 17). This exhibition later travelled to Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario.
Middletown, Wesleyan University, Center of the Arts, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Kunst als Kultur / Art as Culture, Recent Art from Germany, 1986.
New York, Nyehaus, Georg Baselitz, Works from the 1960s and 1970s, 2007 (illustrated in colour, p. 46).

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Lot Essay

‘The Heroes paintings represent an extraordinary achievement for the artist, for in their image he found himself. Painted in less than a year, they have continued to inform all his subsequent work. Issues concerning the figure, form, colour and line, with which he had experimented since his student days, were resolved in these canvases’
(D. Waldman, quoted in Georg Baselitz, exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1995, p. 56).

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