November 10- December 22, 2023

Georg Baselitz: Belle Haleine

Cristea Roberts Gallery

In Person Viewing:

Online Viewing:

https://cristearoberts.com/exhibitions/253-georg-baselitz-belle-haleine/

Georg Baselitz: Belle Haleine is an exhibition of monumental works on paper by ground-breaking artist Georg Baselitz (b. 1938).
This exhibition marks the first time these ten provocative prints have been exhibited together since they were made and shown over 20 years ago. The colossal hand-printed linocuts are collectively titled Belle Haleine, a name taken from a work of art by Marcel Duchamp, an artist who is frequently referenced by Baselitz.

Belle Haleine, the largest prints ever made by Baselitz, each measuring over two metres in height, depict partially clothed copulating couples, in scenes taken from nineteenth-century erotic lithographs. Baselitz trains our gaze across each image by depicting the figures upside down, a technique he has used since 1969. To resist descriptive interpretation of his subject matter the artist inverts his figures and motifs so that the subject of each work becomes the act of mark-making itself.