Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
ARTIST ROOMS
National Heritage Memorial Fund
Art Fund
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/georg-baselitz-699" aria-label="More by Georg Baselitz" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Georg Baselitz</a>
Where is Yellow Milkjug Mrs Bird
ARTIST ROOMS
Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund 2008
abstraction
animals: actions
animals: birds
bird - non-specific
emotions, concepts and ideas
falling
figure
formal qualities
from recognisable sources
Germanic folklore
gestural
jug
literature and fiction
Norse folklore
objects
tales, legends and traditional
vessels and containers
painting oil paint canvas
20 September 2014 – 18 January 2015
2015-01-18
20 September 2014 – 11 January 2015
2015-01-11
2014-09-20
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery (Leicester, UK)
http://www.leicestermuseums.ac.uk
2014-09-20
ARTIST ROOMS 2014: Georg Baselitz
Loan-out
25 April 2015 – 10 January 2016
2016-01-10
25 April 2015 – 10 January 2016
2016-01-10
2015-04-25
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2015-04-25
Georg Baselitz
Collection based display
Where is the Yellow Milkjug, Mrs Bird?
support: 2504 × 2505 × 55 mm
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Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the <a href="/search?gid=999999967" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">National Heritage Memorial Fund</a> and the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> 2008
<p>Like ‘ Volkstanz Marode’, this painting belongs to the series of works called ‘Streubilder’ (‘Scatter Paintings’) or ‘Ciao America’, that Baselitz painted in the first half of 1989. The work has the same all-over distribution of form (birds, in this case) and unifying background colour as ‘Volkstanz’. There is also a similar primitivist, expressionist brushwork and folkloric subject matter, that marks them both out as unapologetically European, as opposed to the (on the whole) cooler, conceptual approach of American artists at the time. Hence the title of some of Baselitz’s contemporary paintings, ‘Ciao America’.</p>

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abstraction animals: actions animals: birds bird - non-specific emotions, concepts and ideas falling figure formal qualities from recognisable sources Germanic folklore gestural jug literature and fiction Norse folklore objects tales, legends and traditional vessels and containers