The German artist may have mellowed in old age but, as he tells Alastair Sooke, he still believes artists thrive on non-conformity.
Sitting in his suite at Le Meurice hotel in Paris, Georg Baselitz, the great German artist and controversialist, who reportedly once said that “women don’t paint very well – it’s a fact”, is explaining why, finally, at 83, he’s no longer the enfant terrible of contemporary art.
