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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 15, 2025 | Sotheby's | New York | The Now and Contemporary Evening Auction | 132 | $****** - ****** | Fingermalerei - Akt | |||
Oct 13, 2014 | Christie's | London | Essl: 44 Works | 5 | Estimates not disclosed | Fingermalerei - Akt (Finger Painting – Nude) |
paintings
199.4 x 162 cm (78.5 x 63.78 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 72 (lower left); signed, titled and dated 1972 (on the reverse)
Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne
Agnes and Karlheinz Essl, Klosterneuburg (acquired from the above in July 1997)
Christie"s London, 13 October 2014, lot 5 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, Maryland (acquired from the above)
Acquired as a gift from the above in 2021 by the present owner
Cologne, Galerie Michel Werner at Kölner Kunstmarkt, 1973
Kunsthalle Bern, Georg Baselitz: Paintings, Drawings, Prints , January - March 1976, no. 17, p. 57, illustrated
Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne; Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Self-portraiture in the Age of Photography: Painters and Photographers in Dialogue with Their Own Image , January - June 1985, no. 101, p. 142, illustrated in color
New York, Michael Werner Gallery, Georg Baselitz: Works of the Seventies , April - June 1992, no. 1, p. 13, illustrated in color
Bologna, Galleria d"Arte Moderna di Bologna, Georg Baselitz , May - September 1997, p. 23, illustrated in color, p. 24, illustrated and illustrated in color (on the cover)
Klosterneuburg, Essl Museum, Kunst der Gegenwart, Sammlung Essl - Permanent 02 , 2002 - 2003
Klosterneuburg, Essl Museum, Kunst der Gegenwart, Georg Baselitz: In the Forest of Blainville, Painting 1996-2000 , October 2000 - January 2001, p. 145, illustrated in color and p. 176 (text)
Bologna, Galleria d"Arte Moderna, Il Nudo: Fra Ideale e Realtà: Dal Neoclassicismo ad oggi , January - May 2004, no. 179, p. 212, illustrated in color
Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno de México; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Essl Collection: Contemporary Austrian Art and Post-War Painting , May - December 2005, no. 34, p. 75 (text) and p. 78, illustrated in color
Klosterneuburg, Essl Museum, Kunst der Gegenwart, Passion for Art: 35th Anniversary of the Essl Collection , March - August 2007, p. 149, illustrated in color (vol. II) and p. 543 (text) (vol. III)
Klosterneuburg, Essl Museum, Kunst der Gegenwart, Baselitz to Lassnig: Masterful Pictures , February - May 2008, no. 3604, pp. 21, 37, illustrated in color
Klosterneuburg, Essl Museum, Kunst der Gegenwart, Vier Tage Sammlung Essl , 2009
Klosterneuburg, Essl Museum, Kunst der Gegenwart, Georg Baselitz, Works from 1968 to 2012 , January - May 2013, p. 79, illustrated in color and illustrated in color (on the cover)
Exh. Cat., Société des Expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Painting in Germany , 1981, p. 42, illustrated (titled Akt )
Exh. Cat., Florence, Sala d"Arme di Palazzo Vecchio, Georg Baselitz: Paintings 1965-1987 , 1988, p. 64, illustrated (installed in Kölner Kunstmarkt, Galerie Michael Werner, 1973)
Klosterneuburg, Sammlung Essl, Kunst der Gegenwart, The Essl Collection: The First View , Cologne 1999, no. 3604, p. 107, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Klosterneuburg, Essl Museum, Kunst der Gegenwart, Sehnsucht Ich , 2013-14, p. 106, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., London, Gagosian Gallery, Georg Baselitz, Farewell Bill, Willem raucht nicht mehr , February - March 2014, fig. 16, p. 18, illustrated in color (text)
Virginia M.G. Anderson, ed., To Colour Well , Viewing the Caplan Collection , Baltimore 2017, fig. 10, p. 61, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Basel, Fondation Beyeler (and traveling), Baselitz , 2018, p. 104, illustrated (installed in Kunsthalle Bern, 1976), p. 106 (text) and p. 107, illustrated in color and illustrated (installed in Kölner Kunstmarkt, Galerie Michael Werner, 1973)
Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Georg Baselitz , Cologne 2022, p. 169, illustrated in color and p. 575, illustrated (installed in Kölner Kunstmarkt, Galerie Michael Werner, 1973)
Property from The Phillips Collection Sold to Benefit Future Acquisitions
Georg Baselitz
b. 1938
Fingermalerei - Akt
signed and dated 72 (lower left); signed, titled and dated 1972 (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
78 ½ by 63 ¾ in.
199.4 by 162 cm.
Executed in 1972.
