Donald Baechler - New Now New York Wednesday, February 28, 2018 | Phillips

New Now

New York Auction 28 February 2018

  • Provenance

    Cheim & Read, 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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Donald Baechler

Yellow Rose

signed with the artist's initials and dated "DB 2011" lower right; further signed, titled, inscribed and dated "D. BAECHLER 2011 "YELLOW ROSE" Donald Baechler SUNDAY I WAS IN THE ARMS OF A SAILOR TUESDAY I WAS IN THE ARMS OF A SOLDIER - BUT TODAY I'M IN THE ARMS OF JESUS CRIST" on the reverse
gesso, Flashe, graphite and paper collage on paper
52 x 40 in. (132.1 x 101.6 cm.)
Executed in 2011.

Estimate
$8,000 - 12,000 

Sold for $18,750

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New Now

New York Auction 28 February 2018