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June 25, 06:56 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Georg Baselitz

b. 1938


Schwarze Säule (Black Column)

signed with the artist's initials and dated 30.VI 83 (lower left); titled, dated 30.VI.83 and variously inscribed (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

250 by 200 cm. 98½ by 78¾ in.

Executed in 1983.

Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne

Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg

Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne

Private Collection, Stuttgart (acquired from the above circa 1988)

Phillips, New York, 17 May 2018, lot 24 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner 

Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Den globale dialog, primitiv og moderne kunst, May - August 1986, no. 5, p. 57 (text)

Hamburg, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Arbeit in Geschichte – Geschichte in Arbeit, September - November 1988, no. 4, p. 87, illustrated

Burgrieden, Museum Villa Rot, Baselitz – Ekstasen der Figur. Im Dialog mit der Kunst Afrikas, April - August 2005, illustrated in colour on the title page (detail)

Baden-Baden, Museum Frieder Burda, Baselitz 50 Jahre Malerei, November 2009 - March 2010, p. 143, illustrated in colour

London, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Georg Baselitz: A Focus on the 1980s, October - November 2018, no. 14, n.p., illustrated in colour

Andreas Franzke, Georg Baselitz, Munich 1989, no. 167, p. 197, illustrated