Abend #3 (Evening #3)

Date1999

MediumEtching, aquatint, drypoint, and direct gravure

Credit LineGift of Sara and John Shlesinger

Dimensions37 1/2 in. (95.3 cm)

Object number2003.070.003

Label TextLupertz is a painter and sculptor of the same generation as Georg Baselitz. Their work is often exhibited together, along with that of other German artists who came to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s and whose work is classified variously as Neo-Expressionism or "New German Painting." Like Baselitz, Lupertz's style is figurative but not naturalistic. His forms are fragmented and abstracted in the manner of early twentieth-century movements like Cubism and Expressionism. His subjects are allusive, referring to mythological themes or certain moments in the history of art. In the prints displayed here the black bird recalls the one depicted in Edouard Manet's etchings illustrating the French translation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven.
Exhibition HistoryPrinted Matter: Contemporary Works from GraphicStudio, Michael C. Carlos Museum, February 11 - May 12, 2006
Published ReferencesMCCM Newsletter, March - May 2004.

ProvenanceEx coll. Sara and John Shlesinger, United States, probably purchased from Graphicstudio/Institute for Research in Art, Tampa, Florida.

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