**Installation view, Art Basel Highlights at Ely House at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London**

**Jack Pierson BECAUSE YES, 2020 Gold Leaf, Metal, Plastic, and Wood 119,4 x 170,2 x 7,6 cm (47 x 67 x 3 in) © Jack Pierson Studio. Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London • Paris • Salzburg**

Roy Lichtenstein Head (Study), 1986, cut painted paper, cut printed paper, graphite pencil on board 96,5 x 66 cm (37,99 x 25,98 in) © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein New York / Adagp, Paris, 2020. Photo: Kevin Ryan. Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London • Paris • Salzburg

Sigmar Polke n/a, 1975, silver Gelatine Print, 120 x 80 cm (47,24 x 31,5 in) ©The Estate of Sigmar Polke / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Photo: Ulrich Ghezzi Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London • Paris • Salzburg

Rosemarie Castoro Land of Lashes, 1976, 8 sculptures: Steel, fiberglass, epoxy, styrofoam, and pigment Installation area, 322 x 122 cm (126,77 x 48,03 in) © Estate of Rosemarie Castoro. Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London • Paris • Salzburg. Photo: Charles Duprat

Georg Baselitz, Elke in Frankreich II, 2019, oil on canvas, 300 x 212 cm (118,11 x 83,46 in) © Georg Baselitz. Photo: Jochen Littkemann. Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London • Paris • Salzburg

Art Basel Highlights at Ely House at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London

Jun 16 to Jul 31, 2020

All images courtesy of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac and the artist

Highlights include a new and never previously exhibited sculpture by Jack Pierson, a new painting by Georg Baselitz, and an early photograph by Sigmar Polke, taken during his travels to Afghanistan and Pakistan where he shot one of his most important photographic series. Featured artists include:

Also on view at the gallery will be a monumental painting by Anselm Kiefer, Memento mori (2020) from his new series Für Walther von der Vogelweide and referencing the theory and practice of reflecting on the transient nature of earthly life. Placed at the top of the canvas, separating the sky from the impasto of golden paint that suggests a wheat field, the scythe underlines the symbolic meaning of the work. Anselm Kiefer’s ongoing preoccupation with cultural memory, identity and history lends his works their multi-layered and complex iconography, constantly fuelled by a canon of historical, mythological and literary sources. In a process of reworking, combining and accumulating, the artist weaves personal biography, collective memory and symbolically charged materiality into a deeply personal work complex that is nevertheless anchored in the communal psyche. Following in the tradition of German landscape painting, Kiefer often uses depictions of nature to explore the fundamental questions of human existence. In many cases, he combines these with objects applied to the canvas, which contain a variety of symbolic references of varying intensity.