Thaddaeus Ropac
Georg Baselitz , Germany
"Ein Bein von Manet aus Paris"
Georg Baselitz, Indigene liegen im Farnkraut, 2025, Oil on canvas, 300 x 430 cm (118,11 x 169,29 in), signed, dated and titled verso. Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London · Paris · Salzburg · Milan · Seoul © Georg Baselitz
Ein Bein von Manet aus Paris presents monumental paintings, intimate works on paper and a bronze sculpture created by Georg Baselitz over the course of the last year. The paintings on view represent a continuation of the now 87-year-old artist’s perpetual grapple with the conventions of portraiture, returning to the two subjects who have marked his seven decades of artistic production more than any other: himself and his wife, Elke. Working on the floor, the artist used a walking frame to navigate the canvases, turning the tangle of lines made by its wheels in the paint into a central compositional element. Demonstrating this novel mark-making technique, the new paintings bear witness to Baselitz’s unrelenting impulse to experiment.
Solo show of Georg Baselitz
From April 26th to July 26th, 2025
Rendez-Vous
Saturday 24 May 2025 at 4:00 pm
Screening of the documentary film Georg Baselitz, directed by Evelyn Schels – Thaddaeus Ropac
93500 Pantin, France 01 55 89 01 10 ropac.net
The gallery
Since its creation in 1983, the Thaddaeus Ropac gallery has been specialised in international contemporary art. It represents over sixty artists as well as several estates. With approximately 40 solo and group exhibitions per year between London, Paris, Pantin, Salzburg and Seoul, the gallery supports and promotes the careers of some of the most influential contemporary artists. The gallery will open its seventh location in central Milan in the early autumn of 2025.
Gallery artists
Cory Arcangel, Jules de Balincourt, Stephan Balkenhol, Ali Banisadr, Miquel Barceló, Alvaro Barrington, Georg Baselitz, Oliver Beer, Joseph Beuys Estate, Marc Brandenburg, Lisa Brice, Jean–Marc Bustamante, Jordan Casteel, Heemin Chung, Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, Marcel Duchamp, Mandy El–Sayegh, VALIE EXPORT, Harun Farocki Estate, Sylvie Fleury, Adrian Ghenie, Gilbert & George, Amos Gitaï, Antony Gormley, Han Bing, Hans Josephsohn Estate, Donald Judd Foundation, Martha Jungwirth, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Alex Katz, Anselm Kiefer, Imi Knoebel, Wolfgang Laib, Jonathan Lasker, Lee Bul, Lee Kang-So, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Longo, Liza Lou, Marcin Maciejowski, Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Jason Martin, Bjarne Melgaard, Vera Molnár, Ron Mueck, Patrick Neu, Nick Oberthaler, Eva Helene Pade, Irving Penn Foundation, Elizabeth Peyton, Jack Pierson, Rona Pondick, Imran Qureshi, Arnulf Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Daniel Richter, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Megan Rooney, James Rosenquist Estate, Tom Sachs, David Salle, Markus Schinwald, Sean Scully, Raqib Shaw, Andreas Slominski, Joan Snyder, Sturtevant Estate, Emilio Vedova Foundation, Banks Violette, Not Vital, Andy Warhol, Lawrence Weiner, Robert Wilson, Erwin Wurm, Zadie Xa, Yan Pei–Ming
