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Georg Baselitz (b. 1938)
Lot 267 A SWISS VISION: COLLECTION OF DOCTOR FRANCESCO AND ODILE CONTI

Georg Baselitz (b. 1938)

Untitled (Mann mit Tablett (Man with Tray))

Closed7 March 2019

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GBP 47,500

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Georg Baselitz (b. 1938)
Untitled (Mann mit Tablett (Man with Tray))
signed with the artist's initials, inscribed and dated 'Probe G.B. XI 82' (lower centre)
linocut on paper laid on canvas
78 x 65in. (194 x 150.2cm.)
Executed in 1982, this work is the second artist's proof of four

Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1993.

Specialist note

Georg Baselitz’s upside-down imagery… challenges not only the viewer’s imagination but the entire tradition of Western illusionism. By boldly turning a figure on its ear, so to speak, Baselitz plays havoc with time-honoured expectations of what a picture should be, while leaving tantalizing visible traces of a recognizable representation. In his monumental linoleum cuts… Baselitz fine-tunes [the] delicate balances [between realism and abstraction] as he eliminates established boundaries between painting and printing.’
– Audrey Isselbacher