Untitled, collage after Picabia.
Signed DB and dated -88. Watercolor and collage 29 x 39 cm.
Edward Thordén Gallery, Gothenburg.
Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund.
Stockholms Auktionsverk, Moderna Kvalitén, 1 November 2006.
Tom Böttiger Collection, Stockholm.
Donald Baechler (b. 1956, USA) uses a childlike imagery in his paintings and sculptures and is regarded as one of the most interesting artists of our time. One of his many established gallerist’s Cheim & Reid describes his work: ”His repertoire of motifs is to be found disperse across different genres, starting from drawings and ending up as sculptures where, after a process of transformation, these motifs finally take on three-dimensional volume."
In an interview accompanied to the exhibition ”Sculptures” in 2005 at the Museum of Modern Art in Salzburg, Baechler had this to say: