Lithograph in colors on wove paper
USA, New York, 2002
Eric Fischl (b. 1948) – US-American painter, printmaker and sculptor of American Realism
Signed and dated lower right in pencil ‘Fischl ´02’
Numbered lower left in pencil ‘40/50’
Sheet size: 76 x 55 cm
Very good condition
Provenance: German private collection
Fischl is next to Lucian Freud and Maria Lassnig one of the most important representatives of figurative painting; the auction record for a print of his is set above €39,000

This print, a lithograph in colors executed on wove paper, was created by the US-American artist Eric Fischl in 2002. Fischl belongs next to Lucian Freud and Maria Lassnig to the most important representatives of American Realism in strict figurative painting. As a reaction to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, in New York, he created the series ‘Ten Breaths’, which comprised sculptures and drawings. In the present work, the artist shows two tumbling people in free fall, a reference to the people who jumped out of the windows of the World Trade Center in escape of the fire.



The work is signed and dated lower right in pencil ‘Fischl ´02’, as well as numbered lower left in pencil ‘40/50’. The sheet is mounted in several points on cardboard and framed. Work and frame are in very good condition with hardly any traces of wear. The sheet is 76 x 55 cm in size and the total dimensions, including the frame, are 88 x 68.5 cm.



Eric Fischl (b. 1948)

Eric Fischl grew up in Long Island, New York. He studied at the Phoenix Junior College, the Arizona State University and the California Institute of the Arts. After graduating from university, he worked as a guard at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Two years later he got a position as a drawing teacher at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Canada. Since 1978, the artist lives and works in New York. Works of his are in the possession of the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as the Musée National d’Art Moderne and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

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