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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 7, 2025 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Day Sale | 198 | $****** - ****** | Zwei Kühe |
Works on Paper
35.1 x 50.1 cm (13.82 x 19.72 in)
Watercolor and pastel chalks, On off-white laid paper
Signed and dated in the lower left. Signed, dated and titled on the reverse
Private collection, South Germany.
Siegfried Gnichwitz (ed.), Kunst geht in die Farbik. Dokumentation eines Experiments, Bonn-Bad Godesberg, Wissenschaftszentrum des Stifterverbandes für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, May-June 1987, p. 128 (illustrated). "I love how art historians analyze Cranach, Correggio, and so on, but as a painter, I"ve never been particularly interested in that. I draw my inspiration from elsewhere, especially from the boldness exhibited by certain painters. The audacity to change images, to recreate them." Georg Baselitz, quoted from: https://artinwords.de/wien-khm-georg-baselitz/ Called up: June 7, 2025 - ca. 16.10 h +/- 20 min.
Georg Baselitz
Zwei Kühe
1968.
Watercolor and pastel chalks.
Signed and dated in the lower left. Signed, dated and titled on the reverse. On off-white laid paper. 35.1 x 50.1 cm (13.8 x 19.7 in), size of sheet. [JS].
• This work is from Baselitz"s bold early body of work from the 1960s, which includes the famous “Hero” and “Fraktur” paintings.
• An exceptionally colorful work on paper, created in the context of Baselitz"s rebellious “Fraktur” painting “Zwei halbe Kühe” (Two Half Cows, 1968).
• This work, as well as his first “upside-down” painting “Der Wald auf dem Kopf” from 1969), reveals progressive pictorial ideas that engage with art historical tradition.
• Baselitz attempts to disrupt the subject matter through his fragmented painting style and to confuse our traditional viewing habits as much as possible.
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We are grateful to the Georg Baselitz Archive, Munich, for the kind expert advice. The work is registered in the archive of the artist"s works.
