From the Harvard Art Museums’ collections Untitled, from the portfolio "Eagle"

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2004.53
People: Georg Baselitz, German (Deutschbaselitz, Germany 1938 -)
Title: Untitled, from the portfolio "Eagle"
Other Titles: Original Language Title: o.T., aus "Adler"
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1974
Culture: German

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Woodcut printed in blue and red inks on off-white wove paper
Technique: Woodcut
Dimensions: block: 43.9 x 33.8 cm (17 5/16 x 13 5/16 in.)
sheet: 45.5 x 35.3 cm (17 15/16 x 13 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Marion Goodman Gallery, Sale, 1982.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number: Jahn 181

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Transfer from the Student Print Rental Collection
Accession Year: 2004
Object Number: 2004.53
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
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Descriptions

Description: The block seems to have been inked in blue first with a more liquid red ink then applied over the blue in a “gallows” design. The block was printed once. In some places, the red ink ran and puddled a little over the white of the blank paper.

Publication History

Fred Jahn, Baselitz: Peintre-gravure. Vol. 1, Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik, 1963-74, Gachnang & Springer (Bern, 1983), cat. no. 181

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