Donnelly writes: «In Das Negativ, Baselitz paints from photographic negatives, resulting in a necessarily dark palette, with subjects obscured in their reversed portrayals — a step beyond the artist's
usual practice of painting his figures upside down.
With 20 rarely seen works, it covers a brief period when Mr. Overstreet's disavowal
of painting's
usual standards and
practices was unfolding rapidly in several directions, alongside efforts by Sam Gilliam, Harmony Hammond, Alan Shields and Howardena Pindell, among others.