Georg Baselitz

Georg Baselitz 1938 - 2026 Adler. 1979. Gouache over pencil on paper. Monogrammed and dated “3.III.79” in the lower right. Inscribed with the work number “G.B. Z 11” on the reverse. 85.7 x 61 cm (33.7 x 24 in), size of sheet. [JS]. • Large & striking: the “Eagle” upside down—Baselitz’s central visual motif of the late 1970s. • The fascination with the “Eagle”: a motif rich in historical, personal, and iconographic significance. • Creative peak: Following the famous painting “The Forest Upside Down” (1969) and the resulting series of works, Baselitz turned to the “Eagle” as his central visual motif. • Uninhibited & powerful: Baselitz creates something radically new by taking up and transcending the pictorial tradition of the animal study. PROVENANCE: Buchmann Galerie, Basel; Galerie Neuendorf, Hamburg (1987). Berlin Art Projects, Berlin. Private collection, Hamburg (acquired from the above in 2019). EXHIBITION: Georg Baselitz, 53 Gouachen und Zeichnungen, Galerie Neuendorf, Hamburg; Buchmann Galerie, Basel, 1988, cat. no. 23, pp. 60–61 (with illu. on p. 61). "The motif of the eagle pervades Georg Baselitz’s work, it first appeared in the Pandemonic Drawings of 1962, spreading its mighty wings over the small view of the village of Deutschbaselitz. Since then, and up to the present day, new painterly and graphic options have been explored through the eagle motif at every stage of his work. In 1983, a series of drawings was created in which the artist and the eagle sit across from each other at a table. After many joint struggles, the artist and the eagle size each other up, eye to eye. In friendship and rivalry, they form an inseparable pair that, in a brief moment of reflection following more than 20 years of struggle, takes stock: it still seems unclear who will emerge as the winner.“ Günther Gercken, Der geopferte Adler, in: Georg Baselitz, Adler. 53 Gouachen und Zeichnungen, Frankfurt am Main 1988, p. 5. Called up: December 5, 2026 - ca. 18.14 h +/- 20 min.

Estimation:50.000€

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