Walter Bareiss Ex Libris

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Walter Bareiss Ex Libris

Artist Georg Baselitz (German, born 1938)

Publisher unpublished

Date1974

DimensionsOverall: H. 5 1/8 in. (13 cm): W. 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm);
Image: H. 4 1/8 in. (10.7 cm): W. 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm)

MediumBookplate: photomechanically reduced etching on toned grey plate on japan paper

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss

Object number

1990.96

Not on View

Label TextMolly Bareiss commissioned Baselitz to design this bookplate for her husband; it appears in almost every book in the collection. The image of an upside-down man is characteristic of Baselitz's art.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, The Bareiss Collection of Modern Illustated Books from Toulouse-Lautrec to Keifer, 1985, cat. no. 3.

Splendid Pages: The Molly and Walter Bareiss Collection of Modern Illustrated Books, February 14-May 11, 2003.