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MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART DAY SALE, AFTERNOON SESSION
ARTIST
Georg Baselitz
Size
79 1/2 x 63 3/4 in. (202 x 162 cm)
Description
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN COLLECTION
Medium
oil on canvas
Signature
Painted on June 3, 1998.
Provenance
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Daniela Papenberg, "Georg Baselitz. Russenbilder," Portal Kunstgeschichte, November 22, 2007, online
Detlev Gretenkort, ed. Georg Baselitz, Collected Writings and Interviews, London, 2010, p. 295 (illustrated)
Detlev Gretenkort, ed., Georg Baselitz, Gesammelte Schriften und Interviews, Munich, 2011, p. 295 (illustrated)
Richard Calvocoressi, Georg Baselitz, London, 2021, p. 312 (illustrated)
Hans Werner Holzwarth, Georg Baselitz, Cologne, 2022, p. 401 (illustrated)
Exhibited
Musée d'art moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole; Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Georg Baselitz: Russenbilder, January 9, 2007–February 3, 2008, pp. 42–43, 168 (illustrated, p. 43)
Seoul, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Memory unforgettable, Georg Baselitz's Russian Paintings, pp. 116, 168 (illustrated)