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'''Eric Fischl''' (born March 9, 1948) is an American [[Painting|painter]], [[Sculpture|sculptor]], [[printmaker]], [[Drawing|draughtsman]] and educator.{{r|grove}} He is known for his paintings depicting American [[suburb]]ia from the 1970s and 1980s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artspace.com/magazine/interviews_features/meet_the_artist/eric-fischl-interview-52414|title='80s Art Star Eric Fischl on How Artists Can Find Their Second Act|website=Artspace|language=en|access-date=2018-04-04}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://brooklynrail.org/2014/07/art/eric-fischl-with-robert-berlind|title=ERIC FISCHL with Robert Berlind|website=The Brooklyn Rail|date=15 July 2014|access-date=2018-04-04}}</ref>
'''Eric Fischl''' (born March 9, 1948) is an American [[Painting|painter]], [[Sculpture|sculptor]] and [[printmaker]]. His wife is painter [[April Gornik]].


==Early life==
==Life==
Fischl was born in [[New York City]]{{r|grove}} and grew up on [[suburb]]an [[Long Island]]; his family moved to [[Phoenix, Arizona]], in 1967.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/06/fender-bender-2|title=Fender Bender|last=Allen|first=Emma|date=2014-09-29|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=2018-04-04|language=en|issn=0028-792X}}</ref> His art education began at [[Phoenix College]] for two years, followed with studying at [[Arizona State University]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://art.famsf.org/eric-fischl|title=Eric Fischl|date=2015-05-08|work=FAMSF Explore the Art|access-date=2018-04-04|language=en}}</ref> Followed by studying at the [[California Institute of the Arts]] in [[Valencia, California]], where he received a [[Bachelor of Fine Arts|B.F.A.]] in 1972.{{r|grove}} He then moved to [[Chicago]], taking a job as a guard at the [[Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago|Museum of Contemporary Art]].{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}
Fischl was born in [[New York City]] and grew up on [[suburb]]an [[Long Island]]; his family moved to [[Phoenix, Arizona]], in 1967. His own web site describes him as growing up "against a backdrop of alcoholism and a country club culture obsessed with image over content."<ref name=official-bio>Biography at EricFischl.com, accessed 8 September 2006.</ref>


Between 1974 and 1978 he taught at the [[NSCAD University|Nova Scotia College of Art and Design]] in [[Halifax, Nova Scotia]].<ref name=":0" /> It was at this school where he met his future wife, painter [[April Gornik]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/elizabeth-grant/saving-nscad-why-art-education-could-save-us-but-first-we-must-save-it|title=Saving NSCAD: Why art education could save us, but first we must save it|website=openDemocracy|language=en|access-date=2018-04-04}}</ref> In 1978, he moved back to New York City.{{r|grove}}
His art education began at [[Phoenix College]], then a year at [[Arizona State University]], then [[California Institute of the Arts]] in [[Valencia, California]], where he earned his [[Bachelor of Fine Arts|BFA]] in 1972. He then moved to [[Chicago]], taking a job as a guard at the [[Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago|Museum of Contemporary Art]].<ref name=official-bio/>


Fischl is a trustee and senior critic at the [[New York Academy of Art]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nyaa.edu/graduate-program/faculty/senior-critics/|title=Senior Critics – New York Academy of Art|last=Art|first=New York Academy of|website=nyaa.edu|language=en-US|access-date=2017-10-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.artnews.com/2016/06/06/new-york-academy-of-art-names-four-new-trustees-including-brooke-shields-and-naomi-watts/|title=New York Academy of Art Names Four New Trustees, Including Brooke Shields and Naomi Watts|last=Ghorashi|first=Hannah|date=2016-06-06|website=ARTnews|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-04}}</ref> and President of the Academy of the Arts at Guild Hall of East Hampton.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.27east.com/news/article.cfm/East-End/551997/Guild-Halls-Artists-In-Residence-Program-Receives-15000-From-National-Endowment-For-The-Arts|title=Guild Hall's Artists-In-Residence Program Receives $15,000 From National Endowment For The Arts|date=March 29, 2018|work=27East.com|access-date=2018-04-04}}</ref> In addition to receiving Guild Hall's Academy of the Art's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994, Fischl was extended the honor of membership to the [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]] in 2006.{{Citation needed|date=April 2018}}
== Career ==
His own website recounts, "It was in Chicago that Fischl was exposed to the non-mainstream art of the [[Chicago Imagists|Hairy Who]]. 'The underbelly, carnie world of [[Ed Paschke]] and the hilarious sexual vulgarity of [[Jim Nutt]] were revelatory experiences for me.'"<ref name=official-bio/>


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==Work==
In 1974, he took a job teaching painting at [[NSCAD University|Nova Scotia College of Art and Design]], where he met painter [[April Gornik]], with whom he moved back to New York City in 1978 and later married.<ref name=official-bio/>
[[File:Bad_boy_by_Eric_Fischl.jpg|thumbnail|''Bad boy'' (1981), oil on linen, {{convert|66|x|96|in|m}} by Eric Fischl]]
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Fischl has embraced the description of himself as a painter of the suburbs, not generally considered appropriate subject matter prior to his generation.<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 28, 2013 |title=Painter Eric Fischl Bares His Soul |url=https://www.wnyc.org/story/301229-painter_eric_fischl_bares_his_soul/ |website=WNYC}}</ref> Some of Fischl's earlier works have a theme of [[adolescent sexuality]] and [[voyeurism]], such as ''Sleepwalker'' (1979) which depicts an adolescent boy masturbating into a children's pool. ''Bad Boy'' (1981) and ''Birthday Boy'' (1983) both depict young boys looking at older women shown in provocative poses on a bed. In ''Bad Boy'', the subject is surreptitiously slipping his hand into a purse. In ''Birthday Boy'', the child is depicted naked on the bed.


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In 2002, Fischl collaborated with the [[Museum Haus Esters]] in [[Krefeld]], [[Germany]].{{Citation needed|date=April 2018}} Haus Esters is a 1928 home, designed by [[Mies van der Rohe]] in 1928 to be a private home. It now houses changing exhibitions. Fischl refurbished it as a home (though not particularly in [[Bauhaus]] style) and hired models who, for several days, pretended to be a couple who lived there. He took 2,000 photographs, which he reworked [[Digital photography|digitally]] and used as the basis for a series of paintings,<ref>[http://www.robertaonthearts.com/id98.html Mary Boone Gallery - Eric Fischl's Krefeld Project: Studies], accessed 8 September 2006.</ref> one of which, the monumental ''Krefeld Redux, Bedroom #6 (Surviving the Fall Meant Using You for Handholds)'' (2004) was purchased by [[Paul Allen]] featured in the 2006 Double Take Exhibit at [[Experience Music Project]], where it was juxtaposed with a much smaller [[Edgar Degas|Degas]] pastel.<ref>Christopher Frizzelle, [http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=62261 Nightstand: Body Issues], ''[[The Stranger (newspaper)|The Stranger]], August 31 - September 6, 2006. Accessed online 8 September 2006.</ref> This is by no means the first time Fischl has been compared to Degas.
He is a senior critic at the [[New York Academy of Art]].


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Twenty years earlier, reviewing a show of 28 Fischl paintings at New York's [[Whitney Museum]], art critic [[John Russell (art critic)|John Russell]] wrote in ''[[The New York Times]]'', "[Degas] sets up a charged situation with his incomparable subtlety of insight and characterization, and then he goes away and leaves us to figure it out as best we can. That is the tactic of Fischl, too, though the society with which he deals has an unstructured brutality and a violence never far from release that are very different from the nicely calibrated cruelties that Degas recorded."<ref>John Russell, [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE7D7123CF932A15751C0A960948260 Art at the Whitney, 28 Eric Fischl paintings], ''The New York Times'', February 21, 1986. Accessed online 8 September 2006.</ref>
<!--FAIR USE of Badboy.jpg:see image description page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/file:Badboy.jpg for rationale--> [[File:Badboy.jpg||thumb|300px|left|''Bad boy'', oil on linen, {{convert|66|x|96|in|m}} by Eric Fischl]]
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Fischl has embraced the description of himself as a painter of the suburbs, not generally considered appropriate subject matter prior to his generation.<ref name=official-bio/> Some of Fischl's earlier works have a theme of [[adolescent sexuality]] and [[voyeurism]], such as [http://www.ericfischl.com/html/en/paintings/early1_79_028.html Sleepwalker (1979)] which depicts an adolescent boy masturbating into a children's pool. ''[http://www.ericfischl.com/html/en/paintings/early1_81_023.html Bad Boy]'' (1981) and ''[http://www.ericfischl.com/html/en/paintings/early2_83_035.html Birthday Boy]'' (1983) both depict young boys looking at older women shown in provocative poses on a bed. In ''Bad Boy'', the subject is surreptitiously slipping his hand into a purse. In ''Birthday Boy'', the child is depicted naked on the bed.


Fischl also collaborated with [[Jamaica Kincaid]], [[E. L. Doctorow]] and [[Frederic Tuten]] combining paintings and sketches with literary works.<ref>{{cite news|title=Eric Fischl, The Per Contra Interview |url=http://www.percontra.net/4fischl2.htm |work=[[Per Contra]] |date=September 1, 2006 |access-date=September 8, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722143210/http://www.percontra.net/4fischl2.htm |archive-date=July 22, 2011 }}</ref> Composer [[Bruce Wolosoff]] was inspired by Fischl's watercolors to compose "The Loom" for the classical ensemble [[Eroica Trio]].<ref>{{Citation|last=Montage Music Society|title=More Music Inspired by Visual Art: Music of Bruce Wolosoff|url=https://www.amazon.com/More-Music-Inspired-Visual-Art/dp/B07N47RVXD|access-date=2021-07-15}}</ref>
In response to [[September 11 attacks|9/11]], Fischl debuted his work ''[http://www.ericfischl.com/html/en/public/tumbling/TW_03.html Tumbling Woman]'' at [[Rockefeller Center]] in New York, creating controversy since it reminded the viewers of people falling from the [[World Trade Center]]. When asked about the controversy in an interview, Fischl still felt "confused and hurt by [it]. It was an absolutely sincere attempt to put feelings into form and to share them, and it was met with such anger and anxiety in a way that used to be reserved for abstract sculpture, really." Fischl felt people were mourning the building more than the people since there were so few bodies but such a high body count, which he felt was wrong.<ref>{{citation | title= Eric Fischl | author=Robert Ayers | publisher=BLOUINARTINFO | date= February 14, 2006 | url= http://www.blouinartinfo.com/artists/62169-eric-fischl| accessdate=2008-04-17 }}</ref>


Fischl's work can be found in the permanent collections of museums such as the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Institute of Chicago; Broad Museum, Los Angeles; Dallas Museum of Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek; Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Philadelphia Museum of Modern Art, among many others.
In 2002, Fischl collaborated with the [[Museum Haus Esters]] in [[Krefeld]], [[Germany]]. Haus Esters is a 1928 home, designed by [[Mies van der Rohe]] in 1928 to be a private home. It now houses changing exhibitions. Fischl refurnished it as a home (though not particularly in [[Bauhaus]] style, and hired models who, for several days, pretended to be a couple who lived there. He took 2,000 photographs, which he reworked [[Digital photography|digitally]] and used as the basis for a series of paintings,
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<ref>[http://www.robertaonthearts.com/id98.html Mary Boone Gallery - Eric Fischl's Krefeld Project: Studies], accessed 8 September 2006.</ref> one of which, the monumental ''[http://www.ericfischl.com/html/en/paintings/krefeld_redux_2004_008.html Krefeld Redux, Bedroom #6 (Surviving the Fall Meant Using You for Handholds)]'' (2004) was purchased by [[Paul Allen]] featured in the 2006 Double Take Exhibit at [[Experience Music Project]], where it was juxtaposed with a much smaller [[Edgar Degas|Degas]] pastel.<ref>Christopher Frizzelle, [http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=62261 Nightstand: Body Issues], ''[[The Stranger (newspaper)|The Stranger]], August 31 - September 6, 2006. Accessed online 8 September 2006.</ref>
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<!-- Deleted image removed: [[Image:tumbling woman.jpg||thumb|300px|left|''Tumbling woman'', bronze sculpture, by Eric Fischl]] -->This is by no means the first time Fischl has been compared to Degas. Twenty years earlier, reviewing a show of 28 Fischl paintings at New York's [[Whitney Museum]], art critic [[John Russell (art critic)|John Russell]] wrote in ''[[The New York Times]]'', "[Degas] sets up a charged situation with his incomparable subtlety of insight and characterization, and then he goes away and leaves us to figure it out as best we can. That is the tactic of Fischl, too, though the society with which he deals has an unstructured brutality and a violence never far from release that are very different from the nicely calibrated cruelties that Degas recorded."<ref>John Russell, [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE7D7123CF932A15751C0A960948260 Art at the Whitney, 28 Eric Fischl paintings], ''New York Times'', February 21, 1986. Accessed online 8 September 2006.</ref>


In May 2022, a new auction record was set for Eric Fischl when his 1982 painting ''The Old Man's Boat and the Old Man's Dog'' sold for $4,140,000 against an estimate of $2,000,000-3,000,000, more than doubling his previous record.
Fischl also collaborated with [[Jamaica Kincaid]], [[E. L. Doctorow]] and [[Frederic Tuten]] combining paintings and sketches with literary works.<ref>{{cite news |title=Eric Fischl, The Per Contra Interview |url=http://www.percontra.net/4fischl2.htm |work=[[Per Contra]] |date=September 1, 2006 |accessdate=September 8, 2010 }}</ref>


Eric Fischl is represented by [[Skarstedt]] Gallery, New York.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Eric Fischl - Artists - Skarstedt Gallery |url=https://www.skarstedt.com/artists/eric-fischl |access-date=2022-05-11 |website=www.skarstedt.com |language=en}}</ref>
The latest paintings by Fischl deal with the centuries-old tradition of the bull fight, more precisely with the ''[http://www.ericfischl.com/paintings/corrida/html1/corrida.html Corrida goyesca de Ronda]'', a topic that since its creation in the 18th century has always captivated artists, from Goya to Hemingway and Picasso. The large-sized paintings show the protagonists in the typical light-flooded settings with strong, luminous colours, and contrasts created by the interaction between the harsh Mediterranean light and the deep foreboding shadows.

==Art "circus" project==
Fischl's latest project is a traveling gallery of sorts-essentially, a well-organized traveling art circus. As he envisions it, 18 trucks custom-designed to serve as mobile galleries will travel to each location, where they will unfold to reveal {{convert|3,300|sqft|m2}} of exhibition space. Together, the whole caravan will contain over 60 works of visual art, 16 music listening stations, and at least two theater spaces where actors can perform scenes and monologues live.<ref>[http://www.blouinartinfo.com/contemporary-arts/article/37555-make-way-for-the-art-truck-eric-fischl-on-mixing-art-poetry-and-the-transformers-to-tackle-post-911-america Make Way for the Art Truck!: Eric Fischl on Mixing Art, Poetry, and the Transformers to Tackle Post-9/11 America] BLOUINARTINFO.com</ref>


==Personal life==
==Personal life==
Fischl worked and resided in New York City, with his studio located in [[Tribeca]].<ref>[[Bob Colacello]] (January 2000), [http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2000/01/studios-by-the-sea-200001 Studios by the Sea] ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]''.</ref> In 2000 he moved to [[Sag Harbor]], [[Long Island]], New York with his wife, landscapist [[April Gornik]], where they share a home and matching studios.<ref>{{citation | title= A In the Studio: Eric Fischl | author=Phyllis Tuchman | publisher=BLOUINARTINFO | date= January 11, 2008 | url= http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/26389/in-the-studio-eric-fischl/| accessdate=2008-04-17 }}</ref><ref>Celia McGee (May 15, 2013), [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/16/fashion/eric-fischl-goes-back-to-his-future.html A World and an Artist Transformed] ''[[New York Times]]''.</ref>
For many years Fischl worked and resided in New York City, with his studio located in [[Tribeca]].<ref>[[Bob Colacello]] (January 2000), [http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2000/01/studios-by-the-sea-200001 Studios by the Sea] ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]''.</ref> In 2000 he moved to [[Sag Harbor]], [[Long Island]], New York with his wife, landscapist [[April Gornik]], where they share a home and matching studios.<ref>Celia McGee (May 15, 2013), [https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/16/fashion/eric-fischl-goes-back-to-his-future.html A World and an Artist Transformed] ''[[The New York Times]]''.</ref>


In Sag Harbor Fischl and Gornik led fundraising efforts to renovate the Sag Harbor Cinema which burned in December 2016 into a cultural center and renovate an abandoned Methodist Church into an artist residency and exhibition space called The Church.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/style/sag-harbor-renovation-arts-center.html|title = Building a New Sanctuary on Long Island for Culture Lovers|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 31 May 2020|last1 = Spears|first1 = Dorothy}}</ref> Both venues opened in 2021.
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==Notes==
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==References==
==References==
{{reflist|refs=
* [http://www.ericfischl.com/html/en/bio/Bio.html Fischl biography] at EricFischl.com
<ref name=grove>Marco Livingstone ([n.d.]). [http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T028442 Fischl, Eric]. ''Grove Art Online''. ''Oxford Art Online''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. {{subscription required}}.</ref>
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==Further reading==
==Further reading==
*[[Arthur Danto|Danto, A. C.]], Enright, R., and Martin, S. (2008). ''Eric Fischl, 1970-2007.'' New York: Monacelli Press.
*[[Arthur Danto|Danto, A. C.]], Enright, R., and Martin, S. (2008). ''Eric Fischl, 1970-2007.'' New York: Monacelli Press.


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==External links==
* [http://www.ericfischl.com/ EricFischl.com], official site
* [http://wwar.com/masters/f/fischl-eric.html Fischl at World Wide Arts Resources]
* [http://www.jablonkagalerie.com Jablonka Galerie, Berlin]
* [http://www.moreeuw.com/histoire-art/biographie-eric-fischl.htm Eric Fischl]


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Eric Fischl
Fischl, 2008
Born (1948-03-09) March 9, 1948 (age 76)
New York City, US
Alma materCalifornia Institute of the Arts
Known forPainting, Sculpture, printmaking
MovementRealism, Neo-expressionism
SpouseApril Gornik

Eric Fischl (born March 9, 1948) is an American painter, sculptor, printmaker, draughtsman and educator.[1] He is known for his paintings depicting American suburbia from the 1970s and 1980s.[2][3]

Life

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Fischl was born in New York City[1] and grew up on suburban Long Island; his family moved to Phoenix, Arizona, in 1967.[4] His art education began at Phoenix College for two years, followed with studying at Arizona State University.[5] Followed by studying at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California, where he received a B.F.A. in 1972.[1] He then moved to Chicago, taking a job as a guard at the Museum of Contemporary Art.[citation needed]

Between 1974 and 1978 he taught at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia.[5] It was at this school where he met his future wife, painter April Gornik.[6] In 1978, he moved back to New York City.[1]

Fischl is a trustee and senior critic at the New York Academy of Art[7][8] and President of the Academy of the Arts at Guild Hall of East Hampton.[9] In addition to receiving Guild Hall's Academy of the Art's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994, Fischl was extended the honor of membership to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2006.[citation needed]

Work

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Bad boy (1981), oil on linen, 66 by 96 inches (1.7 m × 2.4 m) by Eric Fischl

Fischl has embraced the description of himself as a painter of the suburbs, not generally considered appropriate subject matter prior to his generation.[10] Some of Fischl's earlier works have a theme of adolescent sexuality and voyeurism, such as Sleepwalker (1979) which depicts an adolescent boy masturbating into a children's pool. Bad Boy (1981) and Birthday Boy (1983) both depict young boys looking at older women shown in provocative poses on a bed. In Bad Boy, the subject is surreptitiously slipping his hand into a purse. In Birthday Boy, the child is depicted naked on the bed.

In 2002, Fischl collaborated with the Museum Haus Esters in Krefeld, Germany.[citation needed] Haus Esters is a 1928 home, designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1928 to be a private home. It now houses changing exhibitions. Fischl refurbished it as a home (though not particularly in Bauhaus style) and hired models who, for several days, pretended to be a couple who lived there. He took 2,000 photographs, which he reworked digitally and used as the basis for a series of paintings,[11] one of which, the monumental Krefeld Redux, Bedroom #6 (Surviving the Fall Meant Using You for Handholds) (2004) was purchased by Paul Allen featured in the 2006 Double Take Exhibit at Experience Music Project, where it was juxtaposed with a much smaller Degas pastel.[12] This is by no means the first time Fischl has been compared to Degas.

Twenty years earlier, reviewing a show of 28 Fischl paintings at New York's Whitney Museum, art critic John Russell wrote in The New York Times, "[Degas] sets up a charged situation with his incomparable subtlety of insight and characterization, and then he goes away and leaves us to figure it out as best we can. That is the tactic of Fischl, too, though the society with which he deals has an unstructured brutality and a violence never far from release that are very different from the nicely calibrated cruelties that Degas recorded."[13]

Fischl also collaborated with Jamaica Kincaid, E. L. Doctorow and Frederic Tuten combining paintings and sketches with literary works.[14] Composer Bruce Wolosoff was inspired by Fischl's watercolors to compose "The Loom" for the classical ensemble Eroica Trio.[15]

Fischl's work can be found in the permanent collections of museums such as the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Institute of Chicago; Broad Museum, Los Angeles; Dallas Museum of Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek; Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Philadelphia Museum of Modern Art, among many others.

In May 2022, a new auction record was set for Eric Fischl when his 1982 painting The Old Man's Boat and the Old Man's Dog sold for $4,140,000 against an estimate of $2,000,000-3,000,000, more than doubling his previous record.

Eric Fischl is represented by Skarstedt Gallery, New York.[16]

Personal life

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For many years Fischl worked and resided in New York City, with his studio located in Tribeca.[17] In 2000 he moved to Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York with his wife, landscapist April Gornik, where they share a home and matching studios.[18]

In Sag Harbor Fischl and Gornik led fundraising efforts to renovate the Sag Harbor Cinema which burned in December 2016 into a cultural center and renovate an abandoned Methodist Church into an artist residency and exhibition space called The Church.[19] Both venues opened in 2021.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Marco Livingstone ([n.d.]). Fischl, Eric. Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (subscription required).
  2. ^ "'80s Art Star Eric Fischl on How Artists Can Find Their Second Act". Artspace. Retrieved 2018-04-04.
  3. ^ "ERIC FISCHL with Robert Berlind". The Brooklyn Rail. 15 July 2014. Retrieved 2018-04-04.
  4. ^ Allen, Emma (2014-09-29). "Fender Bender". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2018-04-04.
  5. ^ a b "Eric Fischl". FAMSF Explore the Art. 2015-05-08. Retrieved 2018-04-04.
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Further reading

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  • Danto, A. C., Enright, R., and Martin, S. (2008). Eric Fischl, 1970-2007. New York: Monacelli Press.
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