Collecting - White Cube - Presentations

The December 2021 – January 2022 Salon presents a masterwork by Georg Baselitz, one of Germany’s most celebrated living artists. A skilled draughtsman and provocateur, Baselitz grew up in Saxony (later East Germany), developing an unparalleled practice that viscerally revived taboo subjects, sparking controversy in the early years of his career. In the late 1960s, he took the daring decision to invert his subject matter, giving the physical properties of paint a new significance. This month, Salon exhibits Hirtenkopf, a large-scale oil painting produced in 1986, when Baselitz had achieved international recognition for masterfully liberating motifs from their fixed schemas in art history. A Reading Room of additional watching, listening and reading resources accompanies the main presentation, providing biographical context on this astonishing work. Hirtenkopf is currently on view at White Cube Online through January 2022.