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Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao shows Georg Baselitz’ "Mrs. Lenin and the Nightingale"

BILBAO.- Visitors to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao have the opportunity to see Georg Baselitz’s work Mrs. Lenin and the Nightingale, 2008, considered by critics to be one of his finest achievements and a masterwork of European painting. Installed in gallery 103 and part of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao collection since 2010, this work is currently on view within the exhibition Selections from the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection II, which will open to the public on November 15. One of the most prominent artists of the post-World War II era and one of the greatest inspirations for generations of younger artists, Georg Baselitz was present in today’s vernissage. Mrs. Lenin and the Nightingale is a series of sixteen large paintings (each one measures 300 x 250 cm), subdivided into two groups, eight of the works featuring colorful brushstrokes against a white background and the other ei