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Eric Fischl Figurative Prints

American, b. 1948

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)

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Artist: Eric Fischl
Two Girls Dancing
By Eric Fischl
Located in Fairfield, CT
2-color lithograph. Edition No. AP 11/19.
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2010s Eric Fischl Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Untitled
By Eric Fischl
Located in New York, NY
Eric Fischl was born in New York City and grew up on suburban Long Island; his family moved to Phoenix, Arizona, in 1967. His art education began at Phoenix College for two years, f...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Eric Fischl Figurative Prints

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Aquatint

Beach Series 4, Large Aquatint by Eric Fischl
By Eric Fischl
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eric Fischl, American (1948 - ) Title: Beach Series 4 Year: 1989 Medium: Etching with Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 38/100 Image: 33 x 41.5 inches S...
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1980s Contemporary Eric Fischl Figurative Prints

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Aquatint, Etching

Eric Fischl, , Two Girls Dancing
By Eric Fischl
Located in New York, NY
TWO GIRLS DANCING Year: 2011 Medium: 2-color lithograph Size: 27 x 30 inches (69 x 76 cm) Edition: 100 Price: $1,900 Born in New York City in 1948, Eric Fischl grew up in the suburbs of Long Island , his parents having moved there shortly before his second year.”Safer place to raise a family”, they used to say. Against a backdrop of alcoholism and a country club culture obsessed with image over content, Fischl became focused on the rift between what was experienced and what could not be said. Until the late 70’s, suburbia was not considered a legitimate genre for art. With his first New York show at the Edward Thorp Gallery, epithets like “psycho-sexual suburban dramas” became velcroed to his disturbing images of dyfunctional family life. Fischl began his art education in Phoenix, Arizona where his parents had moved in 1967. First at Phoenix Junior College, then a year at Arizona State University, and finally getting his BFA in 1972 at the recently opened California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. After graduation he moved to Chicago where he worked as a guard at the Museum of Contemporary Art. It was in Chicago that Fischl was exposed to the non-mainstream art of the Hairy Who. “The underbelly, carnie world of Ed Paschke and the hilarious sexual vulgarity of Jim Nutt...
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2010s Contemporary Eric Fischl Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Beach Series 3
By Eric Fischl
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eric Fischl, American (1948 - ) Title: Beach Series 3 Year: 1989 Medium: Etching with Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 38/100 Image: 33 x 41.5 inches S...
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1980s Contemporary Eric Fischl Figurative Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

"Vincent: A Delirium, " Collection of 6 prints with prose by Frederic Tuten
By Eric Fischl
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eric Fischl, American (b. 1948) Title: Vincent: A Delirium Year: 1993 Medium: Collection of 6 Aquatints with prose by Frederic Tuten, lithograph inset into cover, signed and ...
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1990s Contemporary Eric Fischl Figurative Prints

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Aquatint

Men in Water
By Eric Fischl
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition of 9 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. ...
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2010s Contemporary Eric Fischl Figurative Prints

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Mylar, Archival Pigment

CAC
By Eric Fischl
Located in Tbilisi, GE
Edition size: 35 Signed
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Early 2000s Contemporary Eric Fischl Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Without title 1
By Eric Fischl
Located in Tbilisi, GE
Edition size: 35 Signed
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Early 2000s Contemporary Eric Fischl Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Without title 2
By Eric Fischl
Located in Tbilisi, GE
Edition size: 35 Signed
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Early 2000s Contemporary Eric Fischl Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Without title 3
By Eric Fischl
Located in Tbilisi, GE
Edition size: 35 Signed
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Early 2000s Contemporary Eric Fischl Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Study for The Weight
By Eric Fischl
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition of 5 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. ...
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2010s Contemporary Eric Fischl Figurative Prints

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Archival Pigment

Man, Woman, Boy
By Eric Fischl
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition of 9 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. ...
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2010s Contemporary Eric Fischl Figurative Prints

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Mylar, Archival Pigment

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