Eric Fischl valuation
American painter of suburban life, its pools, bedrooms and private unease.
Eric Fischl (born 1948) was born in New York City and grew up on suburban Long Island; in 1967 his family moved to Phoenix, Arizona.
What a work by Eric Fischl is worth
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Bio
Eric Fischl (born 1948) was born in New York City and grew up on suburban Long Island; in 1967 his family moved to Phoenix, Arizona. He studied at Phoenix College, Arizona State University and the California Institute of the Arts, where he took his degree in 1972, and taught at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax from 1974 to 1978, where he met the painter April Gornik, his wife. Back in New York from 1978, he became known for figurative paintings of American suburbia, among them Sleepwalker (1979) and Bad Boy (1981), whose scenes of adolescence and sexuality made them controversial. He has also made sculpture, prints and drawings, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2006.
His paintings, works on paper, prints and bronzes come to market. A buyer will want the date, the gallery the work came from, and for prints and sculpture the edition size, number and publisher. Large canvases should be checked for cracking, abrasion and old restoration, and works on paper for fading and staining. Some of the subjects are explicit, which can affect where a work is best offered.
At a glance
- Born
- 1948, New York City
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