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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
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/141655

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

Recorded Ownership History
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
Copyright
© Georg Baselitz
Accession Year
2004
Object Number
2004.53
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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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), p. 227, cat. no. 181
  • Georg Baselitz and Georg Reinhardt, Georg Baselitz: Druckgraphik 1963-1988, Museum Morsbroich (Leverkusen, 1989), pp. 243-244, cat. no. 233, ill. (b/w)
  • Georg Baselitz, Georg Baselitz : Druckgraphik 1964-1989 : Kunstverein Braunschweig, 19. April bis 1. Juni 1997, exh. cat., Kunstverein Braunschweig (Braunschweig, Germany, 1997), p. 41, 105, ill. (color)

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