Ohne Titel. 1976.
Oil over pencil on paper.
Signed and dated lower right. On wove paper. 61 x 43 cm (24 x 16.9 in), size of sheet.
[KA].

• Characteristic upside-down portrait.
• Powerful expression of our human fragile and transient existence.
• Baselitz demonstrates his skillful fusion of abstraction and figuration with dramatic brushstrokes.
• Most recently, the Fondation Beyeler, Basel (2018), the Centre Pompidou, Paris (2021/22), the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (2023), the Serpentine Galleries (2023/24), and the White Cube (2024), London, presented retrospectives of the artist's works.

PROVENANCE: Private collection, Netherlands
From a Swiss collection.

"To create something new, you must challenge genre conventions and the subject itself. The point of portraiture is to leave the portrait behind and move forward."
Georg Baselitz, quoted from: Michael Auping, Georg Baselitz: Portraits of Elke, ex. cat Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth, 1997/98, p. 30.