Viewing Georg Baselitz confronts his past at White Cube

At 86, Georg Baselitz has learned a thing or two about life – and has lost none of his passion for painting. The artist’s latest exhibition reveals a vast cache of works created in his studio over the last year: paintings and works on paper that reflect on six and a half decades of his practice, revisiting sketches made in his youth and lauding favoured references.

“I exclusively deal with my own past, always,” Baselitz says, but “it was a different painter who did those earlier works. It was me, to be sure, but in a different spirit with a different intention.”

Cheekily titled “A Confession of My Sins”, this is a fascinating appraisal of a remarkable artist through his own eyes, with the contemplative and often humorous perspective of age.