Georg Baselitz: Schlafende Hunde Alastair Gordon New York—the artist’s first solo

New York—the artist’s first solo museum show in the United States

it was the largest hand-pulled lithograph ever when it was printed

“The figure and the environment in this piece are one and the same

Joyce Pensato

and gold paintings

Georg Baselitz: Schlafende Hunde Alastair Gordon New York—the artist’s first soloPrinted on Somerset paper by Niels Borch Jensen in Copenhagen, this work is one of twenty four prints from Georg Baselitzs series Schlafende Hunde (Sleeping Dogs) (199899), which reflects on humanitys suffering. Against an expressionistically rendered field of color, or framed by curtains, each dog appears in repose, rendered with jagged strokes that evoke the burden of living with humans. Baselitz gives new meaning to the idiom Let sleeping dogs lie