Man Reading (Lesender Mann)
1982
Artist, German, born 1938
Georg Baselitz
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut with additions in black oil paint on wove paper
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Credit Line
Joshua P. Smith Collection, Gift in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
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Dimensions
image: 65.09 × 55.25 cm (25 5/8 × 21 3/4 in.)
sheet: 86.04 × 61.28 cm (33 7/8 × 24 1/8 in.) -
Accession Number
1990.14.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Jahn 1983, 422 i/iii
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1991
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991, 466-467, color repro.
2024
The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2024.
Bibliography
1989
Fine 1989, 10.
1991
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: p.466.
Inscriptions
lower center in graphite: G.Baselitz; lower right in graphite: 10.III 82
Wikidata ID
Q74884620