Untitled by Eric Fischl
Eric Fischl
Untitled
colour lithograph on rives bfk paper
signed, dated 1975 and numbered “7/10” in the lower margin; unframed
24 x 34 ins ( 61 x 86.4 cms ) ( sheet )
Auction Estimate: $2,500.00 - $3,500.00
Price Realized $2,400.00
Sale date: November 7th 2023
NSCAD Lithography Workshop, NSCAD University, Halifax
Garry Neill Kennedy, “The Last Art College: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1968-1978”, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax/The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, England, 2012, page 303 ; illustrated page 302
“The two prints may be considered a related pair - “Untitled”, a lithograph in two colors, is actually the under layer for Fischl’s painterly exploration in “Sleeve”; the print consists of seven addition runs including one in which the artist applied the silver paint by hand. Fischl taught painting at NSCAD between 1974 and 1978, and so it is not surprising that his approach to printmaking is related more to this practice than to the print process itself. Having since made his reputation for his figurative with disturbing narratives, this abstract work by Fischl is somewhat unexpected and marks an early stage in the artist’s career.”
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Eric Fischl
(1948)
Born in New York City, Eric Fischl received his B.F.A. degree from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia in 1972. Two years later he became an assistant professor at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, where he continued teaching until 1978. In the 1980s Fischl's large figurative paintings, aggressive in their confrontation with the viewer, began to receive substantial attention. Along with painting, he turned to photography and monotypes. His 1990 series of Beach paintings drew on photographic sources. Since the late 1970s, Fischl's work has been widely shown in solo and group exhibitions in the United States and Canada. Solo shows of his paintings were presented at the Dalhousie Art Gallery in Halifax, Galerie B in Montreal, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Mary Boone Gallery in New York. In 1991 Fischl exhibited his monotypes at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College.
(Source: SAAM)
