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Eric Fischl
Trout
1990

Name: Trout
Brand: Eric Fischl
Price: 863 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Since the 1980's Eric Fischl (b. 1948) he has been admired internationally as one of the most daring figurative painters. Over the course of his career he has worked in a host of mediums; sculpture, mosaic, paint and printmaking. Fischl's work is typically infused with a pending emotional, sexual or psychological violence and tension. His expertise lays with his distinctive renderings of the body, whether in a vulnerable or sexualized state. This work, "Trout" is a fine example of Fischl's aesthetic, and was created for the book "A Bestiary" by Bradford Morrow (b. 1951). Interestingly this is the only image in the book that shows a human figure with one of the animals. One of Fischl's favorite motifs are 'bodies by the shore'. Since the ancient world, bestiaries have been used to catalog and describe collective knowledge on creatures and other natural elements (i.e. rocks). Illustrated bestiaries grew in popularity during the Middle Ages, often pairing the animal with a moral lesson. This reflected the allegorical Christian belief that each living thing had its own special meaning, and reiterated the symbolic language of animals used in Western Christian art. Bradford Morrow (b. 1951) is a decorated American novelist and poet and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction. Morrow began writing his own bestiary featuring real and imagined creatures (like unicorns) alongside often-overlooked aspects of nature, like plankton. Morrow collaborated with 18 contemporary American artists who created artworks based on the animals in his manuscript. Participating artists included Joel Shapiro, Vija Celmins, Kiki Smith and Richard Tuttle. Working at Grenfell Press, the artists used traditional printmaking including wood cuts, linoleum cuts, engravings and pochoir. The result of this collaboration is gorgeously written prose accompanied by stunning works of art, as diverse in their style and beauty as the animals themselves.

Creator:

Eric Fischl (1948, American)

Creation Year:

1990

Dimensions:

Height: 15 in (38.1 cm)Width: 11 in (27.94 cm)

More Editions & Sizes:

Edition of 100Price: $863

Medium:

Linocut

Movement & Style:

Neo-Expressionist

Period:

1990-1999

Condition:

Linocut On Somerset Wove Paper. Signed and numbered by the artist on the colophon page. Publisher: The Grenfell Press, New York. "Trout" in the book Bestiary by Bradford Morrow (New York: Grenfell Press, 1990).

Gallery Location:

Toronto, CA

Reference Number:

Seller: 07-201stDibs: LU21526436242

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Eric Fischl

Eric Fischl’s extraordinary achievements throughout his career have made him one of the most influential figurative painters of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Fischl was born in 1948 in New York City and grew up in the suburbs of Long Island. He attended Phoenix College and earned his BFA from the California Institute for the Arts in 1972. Fischl’s suburban upbringing provided him with a backdrop of alcoholism and a country club culture obsessed with image over content. His early work thus became focused on the rift between what was experienced and what could not be said. His first New York City solo show was at Edward Thorp Gallery in 1979, during a time when suburbia was not considered a legitimate genre for art. He first received critical attention for depicting the dark, disturbing undercurrents of mainstream American life.

In his pinned Mylar and cast resin works, Fischl creates images that are both striking in their saturated tones and infused with the subtle tension of figures twisting, reaching, and pushing out beyond the boundaries of the picture plane. The artist has reimagined his technique used to create glassine collages during the late '70s and early '80s.

Drawing on those early years, Fischl pulls his collage process forward using contemporary imagery and art-making technology not available to him in prior years. The result is work that is fresh, arresting, and deeply tied to the historic roots of the artist. While both the cast resin and pinned Mylar concepts emanate from the same desire to revisit his early collage process, each accomplishes very different results. The resin pieces were created around the time Fischl began exploring cast glass sculpture. The resin pieces became a way to create collaged images in modern materials that capture light in a similar way to the glass sculptures, whereby light comes into the piece and projects back out of the work. In the pinned Mylars, Fischl wanted to break free from the confines of the cast resin and the picture plane. This became a creative driver for much of this body of work.

Eric Fischl’s paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints have been the subject of numerous solo and major group exhibitions and his work is represented in many museums, as well as prestigious private and corporate collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, St. Louis Art Museum, Louisiana Museum of Art in Denmark, Musée Beaubourg in Paris, the Paine Webber Collection, and many others.

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(Biography provided by Octavia Art Gallery)