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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 19, 2021 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Day Auction | 280 | $****** - ****** | Very Good | Best Western |
paintings
274.3 x 198.1 cm (108 x 78 in)
oil on canvas
signed Eric Fischl, titled and dated Oct 1983 (on the reverse)
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in December 1983
Lawrence Sabbath, “'Via New York' attacks cherished beliefs styles,” Montreal Gazette , May 1984
Hilton Kramer, “Rediscovering the Art of Max Beckman,” New York Times Magazine, August 19 1984
Robert Storr, “Desperate Pleasure,” Art In America, 1984
Tom Raworth, Tottering State , Great Barrington , 1984
Robert Enright, “Eric Fischl,” Canadian Art, 1984
Peter Schjeldahl, “Post-Innocence: Eric Fischl and the Social Fate of American Painting,” Parkett, 1985
Verena Kulenkampff, “Chronist alltäglichter Schrecken,” Art Pas Kunstmagazin, June 1985
Michael Brenson, “Is Neo-Expressionism an Idea whose Time has Passed,” The New York Times , 6 January 1986
Amei Wallach, “Paintings that Tell of Private Fantasies,” Newsday , 23 February 1986
Deborah Ross, “Former Arizonan New Darling of Art Scene,” Scottsdale Progress, March 1986
John Howell, “Hot Artists, Suburban Mus,” Elle , 1986
Siclen Van, “Eric Fischl's Shock Values,” Providence Sunday Journal , 1987
Exh. Cat., Los Angeles County Museum, Avant-garde in the Eighties, 1987
“The Handicapped and the Arts,” Chicago Tribune Weekly Guide , 7 February 1987
Bernard Marcade, “Entre symptome et stereotype: Eric Fischl ou le Realisme oedipien petit-bourgeois,” ARTSTUDIO , 1988
Peter Schjeldahl, ”Eric Fischl. New York,” Art in America , 1988
Exh. Cat., Denmark, Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, Eric Fischl , 1992
Klaus Honnef, L’Art Conteporain. Koln, Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1992
Michael Drinkard, Disobedience. New York City , W W Norton & Co Inc, 1993
Bruce Ferguson, “Eric Fischl, Chez Lui, Avec les Tableaux,” Artpress , May 1994
Joanne Kesten, The Portraits Speak: Chuck Close in Conversation with 27 of His subjects , New York: A.R.T. Press, 1997
Ariella Budick, “Beneath The Burbs,” Newsday , July 7, 2002
Ariella Budick, “Beyond Appearances in Suburbia,” Los Angeles Times, July 7, 2002
Ken Johnson, “American Standard,” The New York Times , July 12, 2002
“Goings on About Town,” The New Yorker , July 15, 2002
Ken Johnson, “American Standard,” The New York Times , July 18, 2002
Ken Johnson, “American Standard,” The New York Times , July 26, 2002
Adrian Dannatt, “American Standard,” The Art Newspaper , 2002
Martha Schwendener, “American Beauty,” Time Out , August 8, 2002
Carter Ratcliff, “Sensibility on Parade,” Art In America , October 2002
Adrien Dannat, “American Standard,” Modern Painters , 2002
Eric Fischl, Arthur C. Danto, Robert Enright and Steve Martin, Eric Fischl 1970-2007 , Monacelli Press, 2008
Mark Irwin, Studies in Modern Poetry , Peter Lang Publishing, 2017
Property from a New York Charitable Family Trust
Eric Fischl
b. 1948
Best Western
signed Eric Fischl , titled and dated Oct 1983 (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
108 by 78 in.
198.1 by 274.3 cm.
Executed in 1983.
