34 5/16 x 31 inches / 87.1 x 78.7 cm // framed / encadré : 43 x 38 ¾ inches / 109.2 x 98.4 cm

Neo-expressionist Eric Fischl (b. 1948) is one of the most well-known contemporary American artists. His paintings, sculptures, printmaking and draughtsman, often depicting both the mundane and the darker undertones of American suburbia. His art education began at Phoenix College, followed by Arizona State University. He received his BFA at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California in 1972, after which he moved to Chicago. Fischl’s work is typified by renditions of chance encounters in daily life, often challenging the status quo. His early work in the 1980’s brought with it intentional controversy in order to illicit profound and dramatic reactions to paintings at a time where art seemed to be socially irrelevant. Study for Boys at Bat (1979) is the precursor to the 1980s work Boys at Bat exhibited in the traveling 1988-1990 baseball art exhibit Diamonds Are Forever sponsored by the Cultural Affairs and American Express Company at the Chicago Cultural Center. The painting depicts a father, completely nude except for a baseball bat swinging a baseball bat while his son stands nearby. Due to strong public objections to the piece, the work was removed from the exhibition.

framed (not examined out of the frame) / encadrée (non examinée hors de son cadre)

Charcoal on paper / Fusain sur papier

Signed and dated "Eric Fischl '79" / Signée et datée «Eric Fischl '79»