Edited and co-ordinated by Honey Luard
Editorial assistance by Miranda Yates
Designed by (Studio) Jonathan Hares
Text by Matthew Holman

Printed by Verona Libri, Italy
325 x 265 mm, softback
128 pages, colour illustrations throughout
ISBN 978-1-910844-83-0
Published by White Cube, June 2026

Exhibition price £50/€60/$68 (RRP £60/€70/$80)

Published to coincide with Georg Baselitz’s first posthumous exhibition, ‘Back Again’ at White Cube Bermondsey (June – August 2026), this catalogue arrays recent paintings in which the artist revisited several central themes from his decades-long practice. Featuring large-scale reproductions of Baselitz’s paintings and works on paper from the last three years of his life, the publication, designed by (Studio) Jonathan Hares, surveys Baselitz’s opulent gold-ground paintings, a series depicting deities, alongside recurring motifs of the eagle and the artist’s wife Elke – a presence that animated his work throughout his career. 

An essay by writer and academic Matthew Holman takes as its entry point the marionette figures Baselitz designed for the Salzburg Marionette Theatre’s 2025 production of Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier’s Tale). Holman proceeds to trace the threads of Baselitz’s extraordinary artistic life: the Saxony countryside of his childhood, the enduring influence of his wife, Elke, and a mark-making practice that carried the weight of the history of painting.

Matthew Holman is a writer based in London. His work spans literature and the visual arts, with a particular focus on the avant-garde, cultural diplomacy, and the political life of modern art. His first book, Frank O'Hara and MoMA: New York Poet, Global Curator (Bloomsbury, 2025), frames O'Hara as a central figure in the global circulation of postwar American art. He has co-authored several books and written for major institutional publications, including Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2026). He is Commissioning Editor at The Art Newspaper and writes regularly for Frieze, Financial Times, Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere. Matthew holds a PhD in cultural history from University College London and has held fellowships at Yale, the Smithsonian, The Courtauld, and the John F. Kennedy Institute in Berlin.