Georg Baselitz Bauernzug 2010

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Drypoint and aquatint on Somerset paper
90 x 65.5 cm | 35 7/16 x 25 13/16 in.
Edition of 30 (two colour variations), 6 AP
Signed and numbered
Unframed
Published by White Cube

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Georg Baselitz – Bauernzug

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Bauernzug (2010) depicts an eagle in flight, upside down and partially obscured by dripping black paint, and was produced in two colours, red and yellow, to coincide with Georg Baselitz’s exhibition ‘Between Eagles and Pioneers’ at White Cube Mason’s Yard, London in 2011. Its title, meaning ‘peasants’ procession’ in German, is a term for an opening move using the pawn in a game of chess.

Always interested in ambiguity, Baselitz employed his signature painterly dance between abstraction and figuration to mine this charged motif, an avian Icarus of sorts, calling to mind ideas of hubris, noble struggle and individual and national catastrophe.

Although Baselitz, who painted his works on the floor but inverted them on the wall to highlight their abstract qualities, was as much interested in the image as its content, he was aware of the eagle’s symbolism throughout history. In Germany, it is both an emblem of the Third Reich and the contemporary Federal Republic.

Baselitz, who recalled as a child helping a wildlife photographer capture images of eagles for a book, repeatedly painted this bird of prey. In the 1950s, he depicted eagles fighting in air over mountains, perhaps as a representation of his own move from East to West Germany. In the 1970s, he made several famous ‘finger paintings’ of eagles seeming to crash to earth, one of which was – famously and controversially – displayed in the office of German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in 2003.

This edition is available in yellow and red.