Sale: 519 / Post War / Cont. Art II, June 19. 2021 in Munich Lot 552

 

552
Georg Baselitz
Ohne Titel, 1998.
Watercolor and India ink drawing
Estimate:
€ 35,000 / $ 37,800
Sold:
€ 75,000 / $ 81,000

(incl. surcharge)
Ohne Titel. 1998.
Watercolor and India ink drawing.
Signed in bottom center as well as barely legibly dated "3.IV.98". On light board. 82 x 58 cm (32.2 x 22.8 in), the full sheet.

• Offered on the international auction market for the first time.
• The artist found inspiration in folk art reverse glass paintings, which he first encountered in his childhood in Deutschbaselitz/Saxony.
• Characteristic composition combining free watercolor painting and delicate India ink drawing.
• The artist made the series "Melancholie" for the Reichstag in Berlin the same year
.

This work is registered at the Archive Georg Baselitz, Munich. We are grateful to the archive for the kind suport in cataloging this lot.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Lower Saxony.
Private collection Lower Saxony (acquired from aforementioned in 2004).




552
Georg Baselitz
Ohne Titel, 1998.
Watercolor and India ink drawing
Estimate:
€ 35,000 / $ 37,800
Sold:
€ 75,000 / $ 81,000

(incl. surcharge)