Live Auction 11798Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction
Georg Baselitz (b. 1938)
Lot 173

Georg Baselitz (b. 1938)

Mal Vier (Times Four)

Closed30 June 2016

Price Realised

GBP 80,500

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Georg Baselitz (b. 1938)
Mal Vier (Times Four)
signed, titled and dated 'G. Baselitz 'mal vier' 2.VI. 10.VI.03' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
53 x 38 5/8in. (134.5 x 98cm.)
Painted in 2003

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in 2005.

Specialist note

‘The content is in the motif. I use the motif with the content as an existing picture, part of the history of art. I don’t fiddle around interpreting content: I simply take the images as I find them in art history’
(Baselitz, quoted in Georg Baselitz, Cologne, 1990, p. 29).