Georg Baselitz — Devotion — Exhibition Invitation, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, 2019

Exhibition invitation / announcement card
21.0 × 14.8 cm
Offset print on light card stock; exhibition information to verso with reproduced image (Auerbach (yellow), 2018) to recto
Published by Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Condition: very good; light handling wear and faint edge softening consistent with storage and use

Issued for Georg Baselitz's Devotion exhibition at Alan Cristea Gallery, London, presented in May–June 2019. The invitation adopts a notably restrained format: generous white space, centered serif typography, and sparse institutional information offset against a reproduction from Baselitz's print practice. Rather than functioning as a graphic statement, it remains close to a threshold object — an announcement structure carrying date, access, and placement.

By 2019 Baselitz had moved through several distinct phases of production: the fractured and raw figurative paintings of the 1960s, the inverted figures that became synonymous with his practice from 1969 onward, and increasingly direct engagement with printmaking as a space for experimentation. The title Devotion introduces a quieter register, where gesture and image begin to feel less declarative and more reflective.

Within a New Rare object logic, the invitation sits somewhere between exhibition residue and administrative support. The exhibition concludes, the object remains. A small printed document retaining the coordinates of a temporary event.

Original period item.