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471 - Georg Baselitz
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Georg Baselitz Untitled (Kopf) 1985 Charcoal on paper 66 x 48 cm. Framed under glass. Monogrammed and dated 'G.B. 12.VIII 85'. - Traces of studio and minor traces of age. Provenance Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne (1986) (inventory number verso); private collection, Berlin Exhibitions Basel 1986 (Galerie Beyeler), Georg Baselitz, exhib.cat.no.99, n.pag., with illus. With a hand next to its face, a figure appears to be lying on the ground. Georg Baselitz drew ‘Untitled (Kopf)’ in 1985 using broad, swift charcoal strokes; the fingers of the hand are suggested with just a few angular lines, the eyes, nose, and mouth with dark accents, and the contours spread across the page in circular movements. “The decisive graphic lines and bold contours of Baselitz’s drawings are closely related to his sculptures” (Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Georg Baselitz, A Focus on the 1980s, exhib. text, London 2018, www.ropac.net/exhibitions/63-georg-baselitz, accessed 15.10.2026). Since the early 1980s, Baselitz has carved his sculptures from wood using an axe and a chainsaw and, in his drawings also, Baselitz works like a sculptor: the form emerges from a few, bold strokes.
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