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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 6, 2025 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Evening Sale | 8 | $****** - ****** | Apotheke - PiN |
paintings
250 x 200 cm (98.43 x 78.74 in)
Oil on canvas.
Signed, dated "28.V.2000" and titled on the reverse
Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Salzburg. Private collection, South Germany (acquired from the above in 2001, family-owned ever since).
Georg Baselitz. Im Walde von Blainville. Malerei 1996-2000, Essl Collection - Kunst der Gegenwart, Vienna/Klosterneuburg, October 11, 2000 - January 28, 2001, p. 68 (illustrated on p. 69).
Richard Calvocoressi, Georg Baselitz, London 2021, p. 317 (illustrated). "Turning the picture upside down proved to me that reality is the image; an object turned upside down is particularly worthy of painting because it is inapt as an object." Georg Baselitz “[..] the sock with a hole no longer covers the toe, it peeps into freedom, [..] the plane falls into an air pocket [..], through a hole (again a leak) in the bulb (head), thoughts are allowed to run free, [..] a hole in the picture lets the imagination run wild, like the hole in a record around which the music plays." Georg Baselitz, Imerpia, August 15, 2000 Called up: June 6, 2025 - ca. 17.44 h +/- 20 min.
Georg Baselitz
Apotheke - PiN
2000.
Oil on canvas.
Signed, dated "28.V.2000" and titled on the reverse. 250 x 200 cm (98.4 x 78.7 in). [JS].
• Created in 2000: With this painting, Baselitz established himself as one of the most radical art reformers of the late 20th century.
“Apotheke - PiN“: A reference to two great modernists - Marcel Duchamp (”Pharmacie“, 1914) and Wassily Kandinsky (”Prinzip der inneren Notwendigkeit”, 1912).
• 1953: An allusion to the early painting ‘Zwei Eichen" (1953/54), which gave direction to Baselitz"s work.
• The Forest on Its Head: Inspired by Romantic painting, the forest is the most crucial motif in Baselitz"s oeuvre. In 1969, he adopted his characteristic “upside-down” pictorial language for this motif.
• Maximum alienation: an inverted painting, an enigmatic title, a white border, the date marked in the sky, and a large, circular omission at the center of the painting.
• Most recently, the Fondation Beyeler, Basel (2019), the Centre Pompidou, Paris (2021/22), and the White Cube, London (2024), among others, honored Baselitz"s work with major retrospective shows
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We are grateful to the Georg Baselitz Archive, Munich, for its kind support in cataloging this lot. The work is documented in the archive.
