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Georg Baselitz

New Paintings

June 12–August 2, 2003
Heddon Street, London

Georg Baselitz, Materie grau und rosa, 9.XII., 2002 Oil on canvas, 79 × 56 inches (200 × 142 cm)

Georg Baselitz, Materie grau und rosa, 9.XII., 2002

Oil on canvas, 79 × 56 inches (200 × 142 cm)

Georg Baselitz, Schneeroman 2.V, 2003 Oil and metallic pigment on canvas, 51 ⅛ × 38 ⅛ inches (130 × 97 cm)

Georg Baselitz, Schneeroman 2.V, 2003

Oil and metallic pigment on canvas, 51 ⅛ × 38 ⅛ inches (130 × 97 cm)

Georg Baselitz, Einer wacht in der Nacht, 2003 Oil on canvas, 65 2/5 × 48 inches (166 × 122 cm)

Georg Baselitz, Einer wacht in der Nacht, 2003

Oil on canvas, 65 2/5 × 48 inches (166 × 122 cm)

Georg Baselitz, Eine seltsame Figur 6.XII, 2002 Oil on canvas, 70 ¾ × 70 ¾ inches (180 × 180 cm)

Georg Baselitz, Eine seltsame Figur 6.XII, 2002

Oil on canvas, 70 ¾ × 70 ¾ inches (180 × 180 cm)

About

Gagosian  is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Georg Baselitz.

In this impressive new body of work, powerfully rendered and characteristically imbued with romantic, iconic imagery, Baselitz explores for the first time the enduring theme of the lone horseman. The inverted or, in some cases, reflected image of the horse and the man is made particularly striking by the background that is, in some paintings, almost flattened or, in the words of the artist, “mirrored away” by the use of aluminum or silver paint.

These paintings reference late nineteenth-century figures like Richard Wagner and the romantic Wild West author Karl May, both of whom, like Baselitz, came from the eastern German state of Saxony.

These works were painted in Derneburg, Germany, in the winter, and in Imperia, Italy, in the spring of this year.

The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, with a preface by the artist and an essay by Alison Gingeras of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, who recently curated the exhibition Cher Peintre.