Donald Baechler - Evening & Day Editions New York Monday, April 25, 2016 | Phillips

Evening & Day Editions

New York Auction 25 April 2016 

  • 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

Crowds: two prints

1990
Two woodcuts in black and white, on Nepali paper hand-dyed with indigo, the full sheets,
both S. 44 x 34 in. (111.8 x 86.4 cm)
both signed, (one) dated `1990', and annotated `PP' or `BAT' in pencil (a printer's proof and bon à tirer, the edition was 35 and 3 artist's proofs), published by AC & T Corporation, Tokyo, both unframed.

Estimate
$1,200 - 1,800 

Sold for $1,500

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Evening & Day Editions

New York Auction 25 April 2016