Donald Baechler - Contemporary Art Day Sale New York Friday, May 15, 2015 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne

  • 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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331

Small Red Line Drawings

1991
acrylic, pencil, mixed media, collage on paper
26 1/2 x 20 1/4 in. (67.3 x 51.4 cm)
Initialed and dated "DB91" lower right.

Estimate
$8,000 - 12,000 

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Kate Bryan
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Contemporary Art Day Sale

New York Day Sale 15 May 2015 11am