Picture "Rays" from the portfolio "Beach Scenes I-IV" (1989)
Picture "Rays" from the portfolio "Beach Scenes I-IV" (1989)
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limited, 100 + 15 A.P. copies | signed | aquatint etching | framed | size 95.6 x 143 cm
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Picture "Rays" from the portfolio "Beach Scenes I-IV" (1989)
Original aquatint, 1989. Edition: 100 copies, numbered + 15 A.P. copies (offered here AP 9/15), signed by hand. Motif size/sheet size 89.6 x 137 cm. Size in frame 95.6 x 143 cm as shown.
About Eric Fischl
Eric Fischl celebrated his first great successes in the 1980s in the USA. He consistently stuck to figurative painting, even in times when abstract styles dominated the art scene. He obviously succeeded in hitting the spot with his very narrative paintings - even though his works are anything but light fare. Because Fischl places the focus in his works precisely where the eye usually would not be drawn to.
He looks behind the façade of the US middle class and exposes its human abyss in scenes that could all tell a short story. Fischl usually sets his revealing analyses in innocuous places such as beaches or living rooms. The imagery is sometimes offensive and obscene, but at other times discreet and very aesthetic.
Eric Fischl, born in New York in 1948, initially attracted attention with his paintings and sculptures mainly in America, but meanwhile, in Europe, too, his work is appreciated. Worldwide Collections feature his works, including those of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Saatchi Gallery in London, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Fischl has also been extraordinarily successful with his own exhibitions, which have taken him around the world since 1975.
The field of graphic arts, that includes artistic representations, which are reproduced by various printing techniques.
Printmaking techniques include woodcuts, copperplate engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy.
Depiction of typical scenes from daily life in painting, whereby a distinction can be made between peasant, bourgeois and courtly genres.
The genre reached its peak and immense popularity in Dutch paintings of the 17th century. In the 18th century, especially in France, the courtly-galant painting became prominent while in Germany the bourgeois character was emphasised.