Georg Baselitz: Schlafende Hunde Alastair Gordon The poem “In Paris with

The poem “In Paris with You” by James Fenton and a passage from “The Alien Corn” by W

“The figure and the environment in this piece are one and the same

and trompe l’oeil pins depicted in the drawings suggest text chiseled in stone

” an extensive newspaper article Richardson wrote for the Observer in 1962

Georg Baselitz: Schlafende Hunde Alastair Gordon The poem “In Paris withPrinted on Somerset paper by Niels Borch Jensen in Copenhagen, this work is one of twenty four prints from Georg Baselitzs series Schlafende Hunde (Sleeping Dogs) (199899), which reflects on humanitys suffering. Against an expressionistically rendered field of color, or framed by curtains, each dog appears in repose, rendered with jagged strokes that evoke the burden of living with humans. Baselitz gives new meaning to the idiom Let sleeping dogs lie