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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Six upside-down portraits by Georg Baselitz
To mark the Met’s 150th anniversary last year, Georg Baselitz and his wife Elke have given six of the artist’s portraits to the collection, including depictions of the gallerist Michael Werner and one of Elke herself. All painted in 1969, the works present the sitters upside down, a tool Baselitz landed on to shift the viewer’s focus on to his painterly technique, blurring the boundary between figuration and abstraction. The works are on public display at the Met until 18 July; you can read Christopher Turner’s piece for ....

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