About the Artwork
This impression is one of the twenty variants that Baselitz printed of the second state of this print. Undoubtedly Baselitz was inspired by his study of sixteenth-century Italian woodcuts, though he has warned against making any “serious comparison.” While in Florence in 1965, he began to collect mannerist prints created by masters of the chiaroscuro woodcut. Old master prints of this type line the walls of a long gallery in his home.
L.R.
1966
Georg Baselitz
born 1938
German
Unknown
Woodcut printed in black, gray-green and purple ink on ivory laid paper
Block: 16 1/2 × 13 inches (41.9 × 33 cm) Sheet: 17 3/4 × 13 3/4 inches (45.1 × 34.9 cm)
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Founders Society Purchase, Benson and Edith Ford Fund and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buhl Ford II Fund
F1988.4
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Markings
Signed in pencil, lower right: Baselitz
Dated, lower right: 66
Provenance
1988-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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George Baselitz Sculpture and Early Woodcuts. Exh. cat, Anthony d'Offay Gallery. London, 1988, 2b.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Georg Baselitz, L.R., 1966, woodcut printed in black, gray-green and purple ink on ivory laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Benson and Edith Ford Fund and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buhl Ford II Fund, F1988.4.
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