Donald Baechler - Under the Influence New York Tuesday, March 8, 2011 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Mary Buck Thompson, Sante Fe

  • 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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PROPERTY FROM THE SUSAN D. GOODMAN COLLECTION

204

Still Life (Green)

1999
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas.
40 1/2 x 40 1/2 in. (102.9 x 102.9 cm).
Signed and dated "Baechler 1999" on the overlap; also initialed, titled and dated "DB99, Still Life (Green)" on the reverse.

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for $23,750

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Under the Influence

8 March 2011
New York