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Product Description: American painter, sculptor and printmaker Eric Fischl (born 1948) is internationally known for his unusual nude paintings, featuring couples and families, which explore tensions between sexuality and power. Many of his works specifically address coming-of-age moments, blossoming sexual awareness and voyeurism--the paintings "Bad Boy" (1981) and "Birthday Boy" (1983) both depict young boys looking at older women in provocative poses on a bed...read more

Product Description: Eric Fischl: Early Paintings focuses on nine of Fischl’s paintings from 1979 to 1989, and reintroduces the work that first established him as a postmodern Edward Hopper and significant American artist. In these now classic, voyeuristic scenes of American everyday life in backyard barbeques, beach resorts and intimate interiors, the seemingly banal takes on uncomfortable, and at times ominous tones...read more

Product Description: In these new paintings and watercolors by the consummate New York Neo-Expressionist, the same sparsely furnished room, inhabited by various models, sometimes alone, sometimes accompanied, appears again and again, conveying a sense of wordly disconnection and disquietude consistent with Fischl's oeuvre...read more

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Product Description: Essay by Peter Schjeldahl. Edited by David Whitney. Illustrated with reproductions of 77 of Fischl's oil paintings from 1980-1987, 35 of his works on paper, and 12 seminal glassines. Includes a selected bibliography. Stain on rear of dust jacket.

Product Description: The artist speaks of his life, his influences, and his work.