Untitled

Untitled

Georg Baselitz

1986

ink

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This image shows an open book with a black-and-white sketch of tangled lines on the left page. The right page is a typed list in German and English, with a bold red vertical shape matching the sketch’s outline. The red ink stands out against the white paper. The red shape isn’t just color—it’s a stenciled background, like a mask for the drawing. That’s called an *english red ground*, a printmaking trick. Look up technique: chiaroscuro next to see how light and dark create drama.

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