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Male Nude

Artist Georg Baselitz German, born 1938

Date1975

MediumOil and charcoal on canvas

Dimensions78 3/4 × 63 3/4in. (200 × 161.9cm)
Frame: 81 1/2 × 66 1/2 × 1 1/2 in. (207 × 168.9 × 3.8 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)

Object number97.4

On View

On view

ProvenanceCreated Germany, 1975; collection of the artist; Hartmut and Silvia Ackermeier, Berlin, 1976; [242 Inc., New York, 1999]; sold to NCMA, 1997.
Published ReferencesAndreas Franzke, Georg Baselitz (Munich: Prestel, 1988) (English edition, 1989), illus. (color) pl. 113.

Georg Baselitz (exhibition catalogue) (Zürich: Kunsthaus Zürich; Düsseldorf: Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1990), cat. no. 26, illus. (color).

Diane Waldman, Georg Baselitz (exhibition catalogue) (New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1995), cat. no. 76, illus. (color).

Chuck Twardy, "High time for contemporary artworks," Raleigh: The News and Observer (June 29, 1997), 1G, 8G.

John W. Coffey, entry for Male Nude, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 241, illus. (color).

Scott Schaefer, "The Realization of a Dream," Sotheby's Preview (January 1999), illus. (color) 35.

"Georg Baselitz: Portraits of Elke," North Carolina Museum of Art Annual Report (1997-98), illus. (b-w) 10.

Chuck Twardy, "Gifts to ourselves," Raleigh: The News and Observer, "What's Up" insert (December 12, 1997), 15.

Richard D. Zakia, Perception and Imaging, 2nd ed. (Boston: Focal Press, 2002), 307-08, illus. (b-w) 308.

John W. Coffey, entry for Male Nude, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 510, illus. (color) 511.

Baselitz-Academy (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Gagosian, 2019), illus. (color) 191.
Exhibition HistoryBern, Kunsthalle Bern, "Georg Baselitz: Malerei, Handzeichnungen, Druckgraphik," January 24-March 7, 1976.

Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie Altes Museum, "Georg Baselitz: Bilder aus Berliner Privatbesitz," April 4-June 4, 1990, illus. (color) cover.

Zürich, Kunsthaus Zürich, "Georg Baselitz," May 23-July 8 1990; Düsseldorf Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, July 28-September 9, 1990, no. 26, illus. (color).

New York, NY, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, "Georg Baselitz," May 26-September 17, 1995; Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 15, 1995-January 7, 1996; Washington, DC, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, February 15-May 5, 1996; Berlin, Germany, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussicher Kulturbesitz, May-July 1996, no. 76, illus. (color).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Art for the People: Recent Museum Acquisitions," September 14, 1997-January 4, 1998. (Closing date extended to January 25, 1998)

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Objects of Desire: The Museum Collects, 1994-2004," July 18, 2004-February 27, 2005.

Savannah, GA, Telfair Museum of Art's Jepson Center for the Arts, "Fast Forward: Three Decades of Contemporary Art from the North Carolina Museum of Art," January 23-April 27, 2008.

Wilmington, NC, Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum, "Bearden to Ruscha: Contemporary Art from the North Carolina Museum of Art," May 22, 2008-May 17, 2009.

Venice, Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia, “Baselitz-Academy,” May 6–September 8, 2019, illus. (color) 191.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement

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