Lot 46: GEORG BASELITZ B. 1938 DIE MUSIKSTUNDE (A MUSICAL HOUR)

signed, titled and dated 23.XI.82 on the reverse; inscribed Nancy on the stretcher

oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
Sale: Sotheby's, London, Contemporary Art Evening Sale, 9 December 1998, lot 30
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner
EXHIBITED

Helsinki, Ateneum Art Museum, Ars 83, 1983-84, no. 11
CATALOGUE NOTE

"By reversing the figure, Baselitz has reversed the conventional relationship with the real. It is up to the eye of the viewer to re-establish the image, and this re-establishment requires the brain to make an effort comparable to that which the painitngs of Braque and Picasso required in 1911." (Fabrice Hergott in Exhibition Catalogue, Bologna, Galleria D'Arte Moderna, Georg Baselitz, 1997, p. 127)

250 by 200cm.<br><br>98 1/2 by 78 3/4 in.