Georg BASELITZ Lot n° 50

Georg Baselitz, Forest path. 1974. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower right. 190 x 97 cm (74.8 x 38.1 in). [SM]. - In 1969, Georg Baselitz painted a pictorial motif rotated 180 degrees on canvas for the first time with "Der Wald auf dem Kopf," now in the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. - Works from the series of "finger paintings" such as "Waldweg" (1974) are extremely rare and fetch top prices on the international auction market. - In 2021, Georg Baselitz will donate six portraits from the late 1960s to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which will be shown in a solo exhibition to mark the occasion. - The Centre Pompidou in Paris will dedicate a comprehensive retrospective to Georg Baselitz this year (October 2021 to March 2022). - A personal gift from Baselitz to his artist friend A. R. Penck. The present work is recorded in the Georg Baselitz Archive, Munich. We thank the archive for their kind information. PROVENIENCE: A. R. Penck (as a gift from the artist). Onnasch Gallery, Berlin. First Bank, Minneapolis. Jan Eric Lion Eagle, New York/Stockholm. Private collection, Hamburg. Ropac Gallery, Salzburg. Private collection Northern Germany (acquired from the aforementioned). EXHIBITION: Georg Baselitz: Paintings Bilder 1962-1988, Runkel-Hue-Williams, Ltd./Grob Gallery, London, Sept. 19-Nov. 2, 1990, pp. 36/37 (color illustrations) and p. 70 (b&w illustrations). Other Views, Galerie Terminus, Munich, January/February 2005. Georg Baselitz, Vonderbank Artgalleries, Berlin, 17.3.-26.4.2006, p. 10 (m. ill.). Georg Baselitz. Works from European Collections, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne, Nov. 9, 2019-Jan. 11, 2020, cat. no. 38 (w. ill.). Georg Baselitz. I Was Born into a Destroyed Order, Michael Werner Gallery, London, Sept. 11-Dec. 5, 2020, cat. no. 23, pp. 48/49 (w. ill.). LITERATURE: Christie's, London, 24.10.1996, lot 119. Sotheby's, New York, 14.11.2012, lot 334. "The hierarchy that places heaven at the top and earth at the bottom is just a convention anyway. We've gotten used to it, but we don't have to believe in it. The only thing that interests me is the question of how I can continue to paint pictures." Georg Baselitz Call time: 10.06.2022 - approx. 18.38 h +/- 20 min.