abstract image; tan-grey ground with scratchy black marks; rust-colored form at bottom

%C2%A9 Georg Baselitz

Pferd (Horse), 1986

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Printmaker, painter, and sculptor Georg Baselitz is one of Germany’s most celebrated artists, a leader of the Neo-expressionist movement. In 1969, he began showing his subjects upside down to stress the artifice of his work rather than its representational content, a practice he continues.

If you stand on your head, Pferd shows a horse grazing in a field, perhaps early or late in the day when the shadows are long. But what Baselitz really wants you to see is the vibrant action of his hand. Powerful, searching, free strokes that quiver and slash, breaking up form just as quickly as they define it. He adds to the chaos by applying color only loosely attached to delineated form.

Details
Title
Pferd (Horse)
Artist Life
born 1938
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2019.90
Provenance
Sold at the Print and Drawing Council Sale, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, March 17, 1988, item 79; to Barbara Longfellow (Minneapolis, 1917-2019); by descent to her daughters Thayer Baine (Washington, DC, b. 1950) and Ann Longfellow (Minneapolis, b. about 1946).
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abstract image; tan-grey ground with scratchy black marks; rust-colored form at bottom

© Georg Baselitz

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