Donald Baechler - Wired: Online Auction London Monday, April 15, 2024 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Hedenius Editions, Stockholm
    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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Three works: (i) Blue Pitcher; (ii) Yellow House; (iii) Beachball, from Some of My Subjects

signed, dated and numbered 'Donald Baechler 01 64/86' lower margin
screenprint on paper with colophon, in linen-covered portfolio
image: 77.6 x 59.8 cm (30 1/2 x 23 1/2 in.)
sheet: 99.4 x 77.7 cm (39 1/8 x 30 5/8 in.)
portfolio: 101.6 x 79.5 cm (40 x 31 1/4 in.)

Executed in 2001, this work is number 64 from an edition of 86 plus 8 artist's proofs.

Estimate
£3,000 - 5,000 

Sold for £3,048

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Wired: Online Auction

15 - 24 April 2024