Donald Baechler - Phillips x Artsy: Wrapped/Unwrapped New York Wednesday, November 29, 2017 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    The Artist
    Baron/Boisanté Editions, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Artist Biography

    Donald Baechler

    American • 1956

    Known for his "gee-whiz approach" to painting, in particular folksy renderings of faces and flowers, Donald Baechler became internationally known in the early 1980s at a time when his peers, like Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf and Jean-Michel Basquiat were making the Downtown 500 a legendary New York phenomenon. Baechler, however, painted a different tune. Highly influenced by Cy Twombly and painting pioneer Giotto, Baechler instilled his figurative explorations with at once a seriousness and an absurdity that gets at the deeper aspects of humanity.

    With works in the permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Centre George Pompidou in Paris, and labelled one of the most important painters of his generation, Baechler maintains a market accessible for almost all level of collectors. 

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34

Untitled

1997
Ink and tea on paper.
Sheet. 13 1/2 x 10 5/8 in. (34.3 x 27 cm)
Frame. 19 1/2 x 16 5/8 in. (49.5 x 42.2 cm)

Signed with the artist's initials and dated "DB 97" lower right.

Estimate
$1,500 - 2,000 

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Phillips x Artsy: Wrapped/Unwrapped

Online Auction 29 November - 14 December 2017