LR (Jahn 49; Gohr 32)

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Georg Baselitz (b. 1938)
LR (Jahn 49; Gohr 32)
woodcut in black, greyish green and ochre, 1966, on velin, a strong impression of Jahn's second state (of three), signed with the monogram 'G.B.' in pencil, also signed, dated and inscibred 'Probedruck' in pencil on the reverse, a proof (there were other proofs in different colours and paper combinations) aside from the edition of approximately twenty colour variants, printed close to the sheet edges, in very good condition
B. 420 x 332 mm., S. 427 x 336 mm.

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Lot Essay

The recipient of a scholarship from the Villa Romana in 1965, Baselitz spent the year in Florence. There he discovered Italian Mannerism and started to collect works of art from this period. He began to introduce landscape and animals into his work, adopting a grotesque fairy tale atmosphere, very different from his previous aggressive, agonised visions of Berlin. Baselitz's woodcuts from the mid 1960's allude to the chiaroscuro woodcuts by Goltzius and the Italian Mannerists. Their influence is apparent in the monumentality of Baselitz's figures, their bodily distortions and exaggerated emotions.

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