Donald Baechler
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Untitled, collage after Picabia.
Signed DB and dated -88. Watercolor and collage 29 x 39 cm.
Provenance
Edward Thordén Gallery, Gothenburg.
Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund.
Stockholms Auktionsverk, Moderna Kvalitén, 1 November 2006.
Tom Böttiger Collection, Stockholm.
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“About fifteen or twenty years ago I was very unhappy with the way I was drawing, and I decided, as a kind of project, to relearn how to draw from the beginning, from the very simplest gestures, to reinvent a vocabulary of lines and shapes. And I started looking at children’s art and art of the insane and the whole Dubuffet thing. So when I started doing sculptures, about ten years ago, I was looking again for a way to make forms as if I’d never made sculpture before. So I wanted to forget about armatures and about the proper way of using clay and the proper way of doing anything, and started just squeezing things with my hands, making shapes…