Various Artists - Editions & Works on Paper New York Thursday, February 15, 2024 | Phillips

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  • “I’m not interested in style... I’m interested in looking.”
    —Robert Bechtle
    The collection of Robert Bechtle and Whitney Chadwick, assembled over their nearly forty-year marriage, reflects Bechtle’s legacy as a preeminent Photorealist along with Chadwick’s expertise as a historian and scholar. With works by Wayne Thiebaud, Ed Ruscha, and Leonora Carrington, among others, their extensive collection of editions and works on paper represents many of Bechtle’s fellow Bay Area artists, notable names in Pop, and female figureheads of Modernism and Surrealism whom Chadwick championed through her writings and teachings.   

     

    Known for his tightly detailed renderings of suburban landscapes and vintage cars, Bechtle is considered one of the founding Photorealists, a set of artists who used photographs as a point of departure for their hyperrealist art. Such interest in notions of realism permeate the works on offer, presenting a multitude of the artistic methodologies for interpreting the world: a visual interpretation of the musicality and movement of a ballet, postmodern representations of landscape, a surreal memory of a childhood home, and even different artists’ renditions of Bechtle himself. Following his passing at the age of 88 in 2020, Bechtle’s legacy persists through his collection, inspiring the continued search for unexpected beauty in the everyday. 

     
    • Catalogue Essay

      Including: Robert Bechtle; Tom Blackwell, Howdy Beef N' Burger; Chuck Close; Robert Cottingham; Don Eddy; Richard Estes, Main Street, Main and Junkyard; Audrey Flack, Marilyn Vanitas; Ralph Goings, Kentucky Fried Chicken; Ron Kleemann, The Bay City Rollers; Their Own Coss; John Salt; and Ben Schonzeit

Property from the Robert Bechtle and Whitney Chadwick Trust, San Francisco, California

73

Lot offered with No Reserve

Picturing America: Photorealism in the 1970's, Edition 46

2009
A book of photography, text and visual works by nine artists, organized by Valerie L. Hillings, Assistant Curator, Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum, with text page, justification, and folded Guggenheim museum brochure/poster, all loose (as issued), contained in the original bound paper folios.
smallest S. 5 1/8 x 5 1/8 in. (13 x 13 cm)
largest S. 15 x 11 1/2 in. (38.1 x 29.2 cm)
album 15 3/4 x 13 3/4 x 1 in. (40 x 34.9 x 2.5 cm)

All unsigned, numbered 'A.P/50' in black ink on the justification page (one of 35 artist's proofs), published by Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin.

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Estimate
$200 - 400 

Sold for $191

Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 15 February 2024