Donald Baechler - Contemporary Art Day Sale London Monday, February 10, 2014 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
    Sotheby's, New York, Contemporary Art, Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Lot 55

  • 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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Abstract Painting with Car

1996
acrylic and collage on canvas
203.4 x 203.1 cm. (80 1/8 x 79 7/8 in.)
Signed, titled and dated 'DB96 ABSTRACT PAINTING WITH CAR' on the reverse.

Estimate
£35,000 - 45,000 

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Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Day Sale 11 February 2014 2pm